Towards an impactful Mitigation Work Programme under the UNFCCC

Sirini Jeudy-Hugo and Sofie Errendal

No 2023/03, OECD/IEA Climate Change Expert Group Papers from OECD Publishing

Abstract: The Mitigation Work Programme (MWP) was established at COP26 to urgently enhance mitigation ambition and implementation in this critical decade. This paper explores how the MWP could build on and amplify relevant existing efforts, within and outside the UNFCCC, to trigger the rapid scale up of mitigation efforts required to keep the temperature goal of the Paris Agreement within reach. As a multilateral platform backed by the legitimacy and convening power of the UNFCCC, the MWP could help to raise awareness of available tools and solutions, build momentum behind relevant ongoing mitigation-related initiatives without being prescriptive, and deliver more effective, targeted mitigation efforts across all fronts in the near-term. This paper also outlines potential options for the annual decision on the MWP which provides an important opportunity to maintain attention on the need to urgently scale up mitigation efforts and encourages learning-by-doing. The annual MWP decision could be structured around different mutually supportive elements including lessons learned from the MWP’s first year, follow-up from MWP activities and related mitigation commitments at previous COPs, synergies with other UNFCCC processes, and how to complement the global stocktake.

Keywords: climate change; global dialogues; international co-operation; investment-focused events; just energy transition; Mitigation Work Programme; non-Party stakeholders; Paris Agreement; UNFCCC (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D63 E22 F53 H70 O29 Q49 Q54 Q56 Q58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-11-17
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-ene and nep-env
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://doi.org/10.1787/36da89de-en (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:oec:envaab:2023/03-en

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in OECD/IEA Climate Change Expert Group Papers from OECD Publishing Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by ().