Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/113926 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
Nota di Lavoro No. 26.2015
Publisher: 
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milano
Abstract: 
Negotiations pursuant to the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action appear likely to lead to a 2015 Paris agreement that embodies a hybrid climate policy architecture, combining top-down elements, such as for monitoring, reporting, and verification, with bottom-up elements, including nationally determined contributions from each participating country, detailing what it intends to do to reduce emissions, based on its national circumstances. For such a system to be cost-effective - and thus more likely to achieve significant global emissions reductions - a key feature will be linkages among regional, national, and sub-national climate policies. By linkage, we mean a formal recognition by a greenhouse gas mitigation program in one jurisdiction (a regional, national, or sub-national government) of emission reductions undertaken in another jurisdiction for purposes of complying with the first jurisdiction's mitigation program. We examine how a future international policy architecture could help facilitate the growth and operation of a robust system of international linkages of regional, national, and sub-national policies. Several design elements merit serious consideration for inclusion in the Paris agreement, either directly or by establishing a process for subsequent international elaboration. At the same time, including detailed linkage rules in the core agreement is not desirable because this could make it difficult for rules to evolve in light of experience.
Subjects: 
Climate Policies
International Agreements
JEL: 
Q5
Q58
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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