Linking Non-State Actors and Transnational Climate Initiatives to the Paris Agreement

In his policy brief "Linking Non-State Actors and Transnational Climate Initiatives to the Paris Agreement" Lukas Hermwille recommends four key measures: (1) to establish Technical Examination Processes (TEPs) and high-level events for non-state action as permanent processes alongside the Paris Agreement, (2) to include non-state actors and transnational climate initiatives in the global stocktake, (3) to link TEPs with expert reviews under the Paris Agreement Transparency Framework, (4) and to draw on results of TEPs to recommend or require policies and/or policies as means of the facilitative compliance mechanism.

The policy brief is a direct result of Hermwille's conference paper "Making Initiatives Resonate: How Can Non-State Initiatives Help to Increase National Contributions under the UNFCCC?", which was presented at the Berlin Conference on Global Environmental Change - Transformative Global Climate Governance "aprés Paris" in May 2016. The paper fills the gap of information on how successful mitigation initiatives can work as a momentum to feed back into the UNFCCC negotiation process and inspire enhanced and more ambitions climate mitigation by states in future iterations of the cycle of nationally determined contributions under the Paris Agreement.

Both papers are available for download online.