GST-Design

The "Global Stocktake" under the Paris Agreement: Design, Methodology and Process (Including a Test Run for a Selection of States)

  • Project no.251398
  • Duration 01/2018 - 11/2019

As of 2023, the so-called "Global Stocktake" will assess collective efforts towards achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement. The Global Stocktake fulfils four essential functions:     

  • It is a core element of the ambition raising mechanism of the Paris Agreement.
  • It is an echo chamber for the results of the transparency mechanism and thus an essential element to ensure accountability through public scrutiny.
  • It can help to continuously reflect the guidance and signal provided from the Paris Agreement and to further differentiate the signal as appropriate.
  • Together with other elements of the Paris Agreement it constitutes a "pacemaker" that stimulates and synchronises climate policy processes at the international, national and subnational levels.

On the basis of a functional analysis of the Global Stocktake within the legal architecture of the Paris Agreement, the project will develop assessment criteria for a strong, medium or weak configuration of the Global Stocktake. Subsequently, the project will develop a toolset as a blueprint for the Global Stocktake. Doing so, a set of different data sources and indicators will be identified, assessed and eventually selected for application.

Next, methods of data/information aggregation will be developed that allows to meet the mandate of the Global Stocktake – "to assess collective progress" – but still allows a differentiated analysis of transformation challenges so that the above mentioned functions can be fulfilled in a meaningful way.

Finally, the toolset will be tried and tested by applying it for a selection of countries. The outputs of the project will make a practical contribution to further developing and implementing the international climate regime.


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