Progress and evaluation of international climate change cooperation

doi:10.12006/j.issn.1673-1719.2022.086

Abstract

Abstract:

Climate change is a significant challenge facing the world. It has become a general consensus that dealing with such a challenge requires international cooperation. The Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) of Working Group III (WGIII) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) presents an independent chapter (Chapter 14) which reviews the progress of international cooperation on climate change since the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5), and systematically assesses the progress based on the proposed evaluation system. According to the report, the most important progress in climate change cooperation since AR5 is the model of nationally determined contribution (NDC) global actions established under the Paris Agreement; in addition, various forms of international cooperation mechanisms have been established, among which the Climate Club has become a new hotspot for climate change cooperation research. As for the Paris Agreement, there are two opposite views in the international community on its effectiveness, and whether it can achieve its stated goals depends on the ability to strengthen the next step of global collective climate action goals and implementation.

Key words: International cooperation, Climate change, Evaluation systems, Progress, IPCC

JIANG Han-Ying, GAO Xiang, WANG Can. Progress and evaluation of international climate change cooperation[J]. Climate Change Research, 2022, 18(5): 591-604.

Figures/Tables 4

Fig. 1 Key features of the Paris Agreement [2]

Table 1 Climate governance beyond the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) [2]

Table 2 Criteria for assessing effectiveness of international cooperation [2]

Table 3 Illustrative examples of multi-level governance addressing criteria of effectiveness [2]

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