cop 25: Losing Sight of (Raising) Ambition

C. Streck, M. Unger, S. Greiner
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The 25th session of the Conference of the Parties (cop-25) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (unfccc) became the longest cop on record – but yielded few results. It appears that four years after the adoption of the Paris Agreement, enthusiasm has waned and political bargaining and bean-counting have taken over. Countries, for even the slightest chance to keep temperatures ‘well below’ 2 degrees Celsius, must do much more than they have previously committed to and accelerate the shift towards a zero-carbon economy. However, the conference largely failed to heed the rallying cry of the Chilean presidency. The flagship decisions (grouped under the banner “Chile-Madrid Time for Action”) neither produced new commitments – enhancing ambition or finance for developing countries – nor new rules that would nudge countries closer to the climate action targets needed. The leftover pieces from last year’s negotiations of the “Paris Rulebook” were also not resolved, in particular the unfinished decisions on Article 6 on market- and non-market mechanisms. The procrastination shows that the new architecture of the Paris Agreement, while addressing several of the shortcomings of the Kyoto Protocol, suffers from its own weaknesses. The meager results of Madrid give reason to pause and reflect on the conditions that may hold countries back from fully embracing the Paris Agreement, but also to consider the future and nature of carbon markets and what is making the issue so difficult to resolve.
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警察25:忘记了(提高了)野心
《联合国气候变化框架公约》第25届缔约方大会(cop-25)成为有记录以来时间最长的缔约方大会,但收效甚微。《巴黎协定》通过四年后,人们的热情似乎有所减弱,政治谈判和计票工作取而代之。即使是最微小的机会将气温保持在“远低于”2摄氏度的国家,也必须比以前承诺的做得更多,并加快向零碳经济的转变。然而,会议基本上没有听从智利总统的号召。旗舰决定(以“智利-马德里行动时间”为标题)既没有产生新的承诺——提高发展中国家的雄心或资金——也没有制定新的规则,推动各国更接近所需的气候行动目标。去年《巴黎规则手册》谈判遗留下来的部分也没有得到解决,特别是关于市场和非市场机制的第6条的未完成决定。拖延表明,《巴黎协定》的新架构在解决《京都议定书》的几个缺点的同时,也存在自身的弱点。马德里会议的微弱结果让我们有理由停下来思考可能阻碍各国全面接受《巴黎协定》的条件,但也要考虑碳市场的未来和性质,以及是什么让这个问题如此难以解决。
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