Ambition at COP23
Posted by: Anna McGinn At this COP, we are talking a lot about ambition. In Will’s most recent post , he explains the Global Stocktake which is one major element of how countries plan to institutionalize and then operationalize increasing ambition on climate action. The World Resources Institute worked with the UNFCCC to create "the arc of ambition" (image below) to chart the path towards net-zero emissions and climate resilience by 2050. You can see the global stocktakes prominently featured within this arc. So, this arc looks like the UNFCCC and its parties have everything under control, right? So, why is there so much to talk about on ambition here at COP23 outside of this planning for the global stocktake? To understand this, we have to go back to 2015 when the countries were negotiating the Paris Agreement. Since they did not know when the Agreement would enter into force during the negotiations (because they agreed that it would enter
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