Article 6 and the Global Stocktake

Article 6 of the Paris Agreement seeks to increase climate protection ambition and provides for voluntary international cooperation between the Parties in the implementation of their national contributions to climate protection in order to achieve higher ambition in their mitigation and adaptation measures. Despite this common goal, Article 6 and the Global Stocktake, both in the negotiations and in the literature, have so far been discussed rather isolated. 

In the new JIKO Paper 05/2018 "Article 6 and the Global Stocktake", Project Co-Ordinator Lukas Hermwille and Research Fellow Nicolas Kreibich from the Department of Energy, Transport and Climate Policy at the Wuppertal Institute examine the relationship between the two articles. The authors first analysed cross-references of both articles to other elements of the Paris Agreement and vice versa. The study continues to present four functions of the "Global Stocktake" and discusses how Article 6 and related cooperative approaches could support or undermine these functions.

The JIKO Policy Paper 05/2018 can be downloaded free of charge in the link below.