Core Elements of National Reports

Moarif, Sara; Briner, Gregory

doi:10.1787/5k452k1wn5xx-en

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“… Insufficient information on the effect of mitigation actions for all Parties (Ellis, Moarif and Briner, 2010).…”

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“…Ellis et al, 2009;Ellis, Moarif and Briner, 2010) outlined potential new options for the purpose, timing and structure of national reports, including National Communications (See Text Box 2). In the past the purpose of National Communications has generally been centred on demonstrating compliance with reporting requirements under the Convention and sharing information with the international community.…”

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“…However, greater emphasis could be placed on national purposes of such reports in the future, such as to be more in-line with and useful for domestic priorities and actions on climate change. Obtaining international agreement on the purpose that National Communications are meant to fill would help facilitate the development of detailed guidance for NCs (possible purposes are discussed in more detail in Ellis, Moarif and Briner 2010).…”

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“…Including a quantitative table summarising key indicators or data would help promote consistency between different reports, and could also help streamline textual descriptions in the reports themselves. Such information could usefully be included in both full NCs, as well as updates (Ellis, Moarif and Briner, 2010) and would help facilitate review. As international review of NCs for Annex I countries and international consultations and analysis for non-Annex I countries could be expected to focus on mitigation and financerelated actions reported by a country (reflecting progress towards achievement of national targets/goals), the quantitative information table could also focus on these issues.…”

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“…The paper builds on previous analysis (Ellis, Moarif and Briner, 2010) and current negotiation texts to do this. There are several reasons why new guidelines are likely to be needed in the near future.…”

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OECD/IEA Climate Change Expert Group Papers

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“… Insufficient information on the effect of mitigation actions for all Parties (Ellis, Moarif and Briner, 2010).…”

Section: Box 1 Options In Awg-lca Negotiating Text For Information Imentioning

confidence: 99%

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Buchner

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Integrated strategies on sustainable development, climate change mitigation and adaptation in Western Europe: communication rather than coordination

Casado‐Asensio

Steurer²

2013

J. Pub. Pol.

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Complex environmental challenges cut horizontally across sectors and vertically across levels of government. To address them in coordinated and integrated ways, governments have resorted to integrated, multi-sectoral strategies since the 1990s. After introducing this new governance approach, we describe the policy rationale, prevalence, governance characteristics and performance of three distinct yet thematically related, integrated strategies on sustainable development, climate change mitigation and adaptation in the EU-15 countries. Based on this literature-based synthesis, we highlight their similarities and differences and the lack of linkages between them. The concluding discussion explores options on how to develop integrated strategies further. Since all three integrated strategies failed as comprehensive governing processes that aim to better coordinate policies, we suggest recalibrating them towards communication so that they can be more effective in pursuing the functions they can realistically fulfil: providing direction and raising awareness.

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Bookkeeping rather than climate policy making: national mitigation strategies in Western Europe

Casado‐Asensio

Steurer

2015

Climate Policy

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Climate change mitigation is a wicked problem that cuts horizontally across sectors and vertically across levels of government. To address it effectively, governments around the world, in particular in the EU, have developed several generations of multi-sectoral national mitigation strategies (NMS) since the early 1990s. Although NMS became the main effort to systematically coordinate mitigation policies, few works have studied them comparatively so far. The present article fills this gap by analysing how the EU-15 group of countries operationalized climate protection through NMS. First, we introduce the three roles policy strategies usually aim to fulfil: besides being policy documents they also represent governance processes (supposed to coordinate sectoral implementation), and capacity-building efforts. Empirically, we then explore the rationale, origins and prevalence of NMS. Subsequently, we characterize them as policy documents (with regards to their contents and structures) and as governance processes that address capacity building only implicitly. Based on existing assessments we finally review some performance indications of NMS. We find that in particular second-and third-generation NMS aimed to take their governance function seriously but resembled 'lacklustre bookkeeping' of emissions, targets and mitigation options. Instead of approximating NMS towards their obviously overcharging governance function, we suggest to recalibrate them towards their communication and capacitybuilding function in a way that goes beyond bookkeeping. Policy relevanceThe present article shows that NMS fail to effectively govern climate change mitigation across a broad range of sectoral policy domains. Since most European countries have adopted not one but up to three generations of NMS since the 1990s, this finding is highly relevant for them -and for all others aiming to adopt similarly broad strategies. Instead of piling one strategy on top of another irrespective of their implementation, and instead of abolishing mitigation strategies altogether, we recommend recalibrating them towards what they can realistically accomplish: effective communication and capacity building so that NMS can advance from lacklustre bookkeeping to actively promoting a government-wide climate change mitigation vision. The article can help governments to realise that renewing integrated strategies such as NMS without overhauling them comes close to flogging a dead horse.

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Core Elements of National Reports

Cited by 7 publications

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Options to Revise Reporting Guidelines for Annex I and non-Annex I National Communications

Options to Revise Reporting Guidelines for Annex I and non-Annex I National Communications

Integrated strategies on sustainable development, climate change mitigation and adaptation in Western Europe: communication rather than coordination

Bookkeeping rather than climate policy making: national mitigation strategies in Western Europe

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