This policy brief, a collaboration with Climate Strategies, examines options for strengthening accountability under a Paris agreement, and thus help make the agreement more effective.
Beyond the emissions pledges made by different countries, a cornerstone for ensuring the effectiveness of the 2015 international climate change agreement will be the mechanisms in place to hold states to account for how they live up to their commitments. While legal form has been viewed as an important indicator of the strength of the agreement, here the authors highlight how accountability mechanisms at both the international as well as domestic levels can be strengthened irrespective of the international legal form chosen for the agreement.
They suggest governments and others can take several actions to strengthen the effectiveness of the 2015 agreement, emphasizing that a mix of steps at the domestic and international level are needed.
At the international level, they suggest:
At the domestic level, the following actions can be taken:
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