ecbi european capacity building initiative EQUITY IN THE PARIS AGREEMENT ECBI 2017 european capacity building initiative initiative européenne de renforcement des capacités for sustained capacity building in support of international climate change negotiations pour un renforcement durable des capacités en appui aux négociations internationales sur les changements climatiques

Topics Covered What is the equity state of play? Equity parameters and considerations post 2020 What can we build from?

What is the equity state of play? Provisions of the Agreement Article 2.2 … agreement to be implemented to reflect equity .... Article 4.1 … Parties aim to reach global peaking ... On the basis of equity ... Article 14.1 … global stocktake ... In light of equity and n-best available science Preamble … equitable access to sustainable development and eradication of poverty Developments and Practice Minimum information for INDC included Parties indicating why it INDC is fair Synthesis Report of the aggregate effect of NDCs identified only a handful of metrics Structure of the Agreement, Art 2, Art 4.1, Art 7.1, Art 10.6, Art 14 provide a collective top-down element Art 4, Art 7, Art 9 contain individual bottom-up provisions Issues to be considered by the APA work programme How to operationalise the equity considerations of the Global Stocktake How to maintain balance and effectiveness of the collective vs individual provisions of the agreement

Equity parameters and considerations post 2020 To what end? Encourage ambition as part of the ambition mechanism in order to achieve the Objectives of the Agreement; Basis for engaging national constituencies towards enhancing contributions following a global stocktake; What are the key elements? Suite of metrics that Parties can choose from - methodologies and accompanying information multilaterally defined but self-applied; National circumstances further defined by the party in outlining the fairness of their contribution Political conversation during the stocktake on equity related aspects of the required effort Domestic conversation considering the equity aspects of outputs of the stocktake What are the considerations? Scope should be comprehensive, covers all aspects of the agreement Self-applied by Parties, opportunity to outline national circumstances and political considerations Metrics to be defined multilaterally, considerations being IPCC best positioned Required global effort discussed collectively as part of the GST Collective progress towards goals is an equity consideration in itself;

INFLECTION POINTS Scope - M, A,S, Other Metrics - No common metrics Sovereignty - top down vs bottom up What can we build on? Scope: The Paris Agreement solves this problem in that in Article 2 and 14, as it defines a comprehensive scope of global action, to include mitigation, adaptation and support Agreed metrics: the INDC synthesis report identifies metrics that include, responsibility in the context of past-current-future share in global emissions and per capita emissions relative to the global average; capability GDP per capita, ability to invest, support received, level of development Sovereignty: National definition of what is equitable as per paragraph 14 of 1/CP.20, as well as national circumstances in the INDC synthesis, which included size and geography, dependence on fossil fuels, vulnerability to climate impacts, other social and economic characteristics, amongst others Individual Party outlines its contribution to the global effort, m-NDC, a-NDC, BCIS, as appropriate Collective definition of the required effort informed by °C; metric methodologies Parties choose relevant metrics Individual Party definition of ambition-national circumstances