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Almost every country has formulated its Nationally Determined
Contribution to the global response to climate change. These
national climate action plans were key to the landmark adoption of
the 2015 Paris Agreement. They will also be central to its
implementation – even if, taken together, current plans are
insufficient to meet the aims of the Paris Agreement. Every five
years, countries update their NDCs to demonstrate increased
ambition. But while essential, ambition alone is not enough. This
book shows that to be able to realize their climate ambition,
countries also need to enhance the effectiveness of their plans and
policies. Enhancing effectiveness involves improving the
transparency, coherence and implementability of their NDCs. To ramp
up ambition and effectiveness, future NDCs must build on and learn
from experience. Based on a detailed analysis of the first round of
NDCs by some of the world’s most knowledgeable climate policy
experts, this book offers critical insights relevant to mitigation,
adaptation and means of implementation. The book also discusses key
elements of the Paris Agreement and broader climate policy,
including the Enhanced Transparency Framework and the Paris
Committee on Capacity Building, as well as considerations of equity
and development. It is a must-read for researchers, policymakers,
practitioners, and civil-society experts working on climate policy.
The chapters in this book were originally published as a special
issue of the Climate Policy.
Assessing the vulnerability of human populations to global
environmental change, particularly climate change, is now the main
imperative of research and international action. However, much of
the research into vulnerability is not designed to feed directly
into decision making and policy, creating a gap between the
knowledge created by researchers and what is required by decision
makers. This book seeks to rectify this problem and bridge the gap.
It discusses vulnerability as the central theme and brings together
many different applications from disaster studies, climate change
impact studies and several other fields and provides the most
comprehensive synthesis of definitions, theories, formalization and
applications to date, illustrated with examples from different
disciplines, regions and periods, and from local through to
regional, national and international levels. Case study topics
cover sea level rise, vulnerability to changes in ecosystem
services, assessing the vulnerability of human health and 'double
exposure' to climate change and trade liberalization amongst other
issues. Research outcomes stress that science-policy dialogues must
be transparent to be effective and concentrate on a mutual
understanding of the concepts used. A key research finding is that
the most useful information for decision makers is that which shows
the separate causes and drivers of vulnerability, rather than
presenting vulnerability in an aggregated form. The book concludes
with a unifying framework for analysing integrated methodologies of
vulnerability assessment and guiding how research and policy can be
linked to reduce vulnerability.
Almost every country has formulated its Nationally Determined
Contribution to the global response to climate change. These
national climate action plans were key to the landmark adoption of
the 2015 Paris Agreement. They will also be central to its
implementation - even if, taken together, current plans are
insufficient to meet the aims of the Paris Agreement. Every five
years, countries update their NDCs to demonstrate increased
ambition. But while essential, ambition alone is not enough. This
book shows that to be able to realize their climate ambition,
countries also need to enhance the effectiveness of their plans and
policies. Enhancing effectiveness involves improving the
transparency, coherence and implementability of their NDCs. To ramp
up ambition and effectiveness, future NDCs must build on and learn
from experience. Based on a detailed analysis of the first round of
NDCs by some of the world's most knowledgeable climate policy
experts, this book offers critical insights relevant to mitigation,
adaptation and means of implementation. The book also discusses key
elements of the Paris Agreement and broader climate policy,
including the Enhanced Transparency Framework and the Paris
Committee on Capacity Building, as well as considerations of equity
and development. It is a must-read for researchers, policymakers,
practitioners, and civil-society experts working on climate policy.
The chapters in this book were originally published as a special
issue of the Climate Policy.
Assessing the vulnerability of human populations to global
environmental change, particularly climate change, is now the main
imperative of research and international action. However, much of
the research into vulnerability is not designed to feed directly
into decision making and policy, creating a gap between the
knowledge created by researchers and what is required by decision
makers. This book seeks to rectify this problem and bridge the gap.
It discusses vulnerability as the central theme and brings together
many different applications from disaster studies, climate change
impact studies and several other fields and provides the most
comprehensive synthesis of definitions, theories, formalization and
applications to date, illustrated with examples from different
disciplines, regions and periods, and from local through to
regional, national and international levels. Case study topics
cover sea level rise, vulnerability to changes in ecosystem
services, assessing the vulnerability of human health and 'double
exposure' to climate change and trade liberalization amongst other
issues. Research outcomes stress that science-policy dialogues must
be transparent to be effective and concentrate on a mutual
understanding of the concepts used. A key research finding is that
the most useful information for decision makers is that which shows
the separate causes and drivers of vulnerability, rather than
presenting vulnerability in an aggregated form. The book concludes
with a unifying framework for analysing integrated methodologies of
vulnerability assessment and guiding how research and policy can be
linked to reduce vulnerability.
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