Making Climate Action More Effective

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Pieter Pauw is policy advisor and senior researcher at the Frankfurt School UNEP Collaborating Centre for Climate & Sustainable Energy and adjunct assistant professor at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development of Utrecht University. He has published extensively on adaptation, climate finance and Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs).

Richard Klein (Stockholm Environment Institute) has conducted research and provided policy advice on climate adaptation since 1992. He has served as lead author in six IPCC reports and co-led the Nordic Centre of Excellence for Strategic Adaptation Research. He founded the journal Climate and Development and was its editor-in-chief for ten years. In 2016, he received the Burtoni Award for excellence in adaptation research.

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Based on a detailed analysis of the first round of NDCs by some of the world s most knowledgeable climate policy experts, this book offers critical insights relevant to mitigation, adaptation and means of implementation.

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Based on a detailed analysis of the first round of NDCs by some of the world's most knowledgeable climate policy experts, this book offers critical insights relevant to mitigation, adaptation and means of implementation.

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1. Beyond ambition: increasing the transparency, coherence and implementability of Nationally Determined Contributions

W. Pieter Pauw and Richard J.T. Klein

2. Ambition in the making: analysing the preparation and implementation process of the Nationally Determined Contributions under the Paris Agreement

Frauke Röser, Oscar Widerberg, Niklas Höhne and Thomas Day

3. The 2030 Agenda and the Paris Agreement: voluntary contributions towards thematic policy coherence

Hannah Janetschek, Clara Brandi, Adis Dzebo and Bernd Hackmann

4. Exploring links between national climate strategies and non-state and subnational climate action in nationally determined contributions (NDCs)

Angel Hsu, John Brandt, Oscar Widerberg, Sander Chan and Amy Weinfurter

5. What are the implications of the Paris Agreement for inequality?

Caroline Zimm and Nebojsa Nakicenovic

6. Conditional nationally determined contributions in the Paris Agreement: foothold for equity or Achilles heel?

W. Pieter Pauw, Paula Castro, Jonathan Pickering and Shikha Bhasin

7. Nationally determined contributions (NDCs) as instruments for promoting national development agendas? An analysis of small island developing states (SIDS)

Aaron Atteridge, Cleo Verkuijl and Adis Dzebo

8. Capacity building for implementation of nationally determined contributions under the Paris Agreement

Mizan Khan, David Mfitumukiza and Saleemul Huq

9. Transparency requirements under the Paris Agreement and their (un)likely impact on strengthening the ambition of nationally determined contributions (NDCs)

Romain Weikmans, Harro van Asselt and J. Timmons Roberts