Publié le 08/09/2015

Carole MATHIEU

To avoid the pitfalls of historic divisions, climate negotiators decided to go down the self-differentiation route and leave legal matters to be resolved during the last steps of the process. The national contributions drafted by each party provide a robust basis for discussion, but we still need to ensure that these are appropriate and also monitor their implementation. The credibility of the Paris Agreement will be determined by these final procedural trade-offs.  

This text has originally been published in French in RAMSES 2016. Climat : une nouvelle chance ? [1], Paris, Ifri/Dunod, 2015.