Article 6 of the Paris Agreement established three approaches for countries to cooperate with each other: cooperative approaches, a new mechanism to promote mitigation and sustainable development ("sustainable development mechanism"), and a framework for non-market approaches. While the "sustainable development mechanism" seems familiar as its principles strongly resemble the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), the other two approaches have so far not been clearly defined conceptually. This JIKO Policy Paper summarises the views by Parties and observers that were submitted at the end of September and reveals some sharp differences in opinions on how Art. 6 should work.
The JIKO Policy Paper 04/2016 by Wolfgang Obergassel (Wuppertal Institute) is available for free download.