Paris Agreement Archives

Empty seats in a plenary room during a UN climate change conference

Two opportunities to seize now COP26 is postponed

Perspective / Reforming the process of international climate negotiations and realising that we are all in this together - two opportunities created by the COP26 deferral.

2 April 2020 / About Adaptation, Climate policy, Finance and Mitigation

Linking mitigation and adaptation in long-term strategies

Other publication / Early findings from research on how to ensure that long-term adaptation plans align with emission reduction goals and are low carbon.

4 December 2018 / About Adaptation, Climate policy and Mitigation

Beyond ambition: Increasing the transparency, coherence and implementability of Nationally Determined Contributions

Journal article / The editorial to a special issue of the journal Climate Policy: Making Climate Action More Effective: Lessons Learned from the First NDCs.

4 March 2020 / About Climate policy

Transparency requirements under the Paris Agreement and their (un)likely impact on strengthening the ambition of nationally determined contributions (NDCs)

Journal article / How to raise the chances transparency under the Paris Agreement will lead to greater ambition.

19 November 2019 / About Climate policy

The 2030 Agenda and the Paris Agreement: Voluntary contributions towards thematic policy coherence

Journal article / An analysis reveals opportunities for synergy between the 2030 Agenda and nationally determined contributions (NDCs) under the Paris Agreement.

18 February 2020 / About Climate policy and Sustainable Development Goals

Opportunities for increasing ambition of Nationally Determined Contributions through integrated air pollution and climate change planning: A practical guidance document

Other publication / A practical framework to identify, prioritise and include measures increasing a country’s climate change mitigation ambition by improving local air quality.

1 September 2019 / About Climate policy, Mitigation, Pollution and Short lived climate pollutants

Aerial view of colourful containers, Bukit Merah, Singapore

Leadership Group for Industry Transition

Project / The Leadership Group for Industry Transition (LeadIT) aims to enable the transition of heavy industry towards net zero carbon emissions by 2050.

2020 / About Business, Climate policy, Finance, Fossil fuels, Innovation, Mitigation, Public policy, Renewables and Supply chains

Loss and damage at COP25: a look outside the negotiating rooms

Perspective / An SEI Research Associate attended COP25 but found that the most powerful debate on climate justice was happening outside the official negotiations.

20 December 2019 / About Adaptation, Geopolitics and Participation

‘The Paris Agreement is also about managing the risks of living in a warming world’

Media coverage / Kevin M. Adams, Research Fellow at SEI was interviewed by the news agency Associated Press at COP 25 in Madrid.

11 December 2019 / About Climate policy