ZEW Team Contributes to UN Climate Change Conference 2018 with Two Side Events

A team of researchers from the Research Department “Environmental and Resource Economics, Environmental Management” at the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), Mannheim, will host two side events at this year’s UN Climate Change Conference in Katowice, Poland. Both side events will focus on the practical implementation of binding rules to achieve the goals set in the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement.

The side event “Setting the Paris Agreement in motion: key requirements for the implementing guidelines”, which features ZEW economist Claire Gavard, PhD, aims to shed light on the requirements that are key for designing effective guidelines in accordance with the Paris Agreement and examines how the signatory states can implement these guidelines. A focus will be on the transparency mechanism and on how flexibility mechanisms are handled by the signatory states.

The side event “Monitoring, Reporting and Compliance (MRC) – A multi-stakeholder perspective” will be dedicated to creating incentives for monitoring and reporting and for complying with international climate policy rules, while paying particular attention to the role of signatory states, companies, individuals and civil society in subsequent negotiations. The discussion will feature ZEW economists Dr. Carlo Gallier and Dr. Sebastian Voigt, deputy head of the ZEW Environmental Research Department.

“The great challenge of the recently initiated Talanoa Dialogue to tighten national climate rules will be to establish a common set of rules on climate protection, adaptation and financing that is transparent. Only in this way can a basis of trust be created, which is indispensable for harmonising the different national ideas of justice and, ultimately, for long-term cooperation,” explains Dr. Martin Kesternich, also deputy head of the ZEW Environmental Research Department, with a view to the UN Climate Conference 2018, or the “United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, 24th Conference of the Parties” (short: COP24).