The characteristics of Intended Nationally Determined Contributions

doi:10.12006/j.issn.1673-1719.2017.124

Abstract

Abstract:

The Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) mechanism was established at the Paris Climate Change Conference in 2015, requiring Parties to take a “bottom-up” approach to set climate change targets with reference to national circumstances. This paper summarizes the 164 submitted Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) as the former version of NDCs, generalizes a common framework of the documents, and delivers the statistical analysis focusing on the four characteristics of national mitigation and adaptation goals, conditions and fairness. Results show significant differences in the text of INDCs of each Party. Although a common text framework is developed, different choices are made in specific demonstration of target, coverage of economic sectors and gases, implementation conditions and fairness. In addition, the climate change negotiation position has a significant impact on the choices of content and form of commitment made by Parties.

Key words: Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC), Climate change, Characteristics, Descriptive statistics

Yi-Dan CHEN,Wen-Jia CAI,Can WANG. The characteristics of Intended Nationally Determined Contributions[J]. Climate Change Research, 2018, 14(3): 295-302.

Figures/Tables 8

Fig. 1 The framework of INDCs

Table 1 The number of INDCs with mitigation targets

Table 2 The number of INDCs with GHGs mitigation targets

Table 3 The number of INDCs with market mechanisms

Fig. 2 Economic sectors covered in INDCs

Fig. 3 Adaptation sectors in INDCs

Table 4 Conditions in INDCs

Table 5 Detailed conditions in INDCs

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