CHALLENGES ON PROCESSES FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF PARIS AGREEMENT: MAJOR FOSSIL FUEL PRODUCERS CASE


A new climate change agreement was required to replace to the Kyoto Protocol, which quantitatively determines the greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction of developed and industrialized countries and sets down cost-effective mitigation mechanisms. The Kyoto Protocol has not defined the commitment to reduce GHG emission for a sufficient number of countries. The Kyoto Protocol has not also provided equity based responsibility sharing for combating climate change. In line with these needs, the Paris Agreement was adopted in 2015 as a result of the 21st Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) at the end of the climate negotiations between the years 2011 and 2015. The Paris Agreement entered into force on 4th November 2016 and covers the post-2020 implementation period. Due to the monitoring of the process of negotiating and bottom- up negotiating method, updated Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) with progressive and additional GHG emission reduction requirements (INDCs 2.0) process by 2020 has gained critical importance. In this study, the case of major fossil fuel producers is investigated in terms of their institutional and climate policy perspectives for monitoring their submitted INDCs. In particular, the sustainability and effectiveness of the Paris Agreement are questioned in the post-2020 period due to the fact that the responsibilities of developed and developing countries are different and INDCs have not been submitted in a common format. In this study, starting from the construction process of the Paris Agreement, a critical evaluation of the system to be established and the processes to be completed will be followed. At the end of the study, recommendations will be made especially for developing countries to carry out the emission reduction process in a more transparent manner.


Keywords


Paris Agreement, NDCs, Transparency, Global Stocktake.

Author : Levent AYDIN -İzzet ARI
Number of pages: 1173-1186
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.29228/TurkishStudies.32703
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Turkish Studies-Economics,Finance,Politics
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