NDC ASPECTS Newsletter - November 2021


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NDC Αspects Newsletter #1

Focus on Global Stocktake (GST)

Welcome to NDC Aspects‘ first newsletter!

For the next 3 years, the Horizon 2020 project NDC ASPECTS is going to develop cutting-edge mitigation pathways as well as policy and governance options to support the implementation of the Global Stocktake and NDCs by key countries.

Today, we are pleased to share with you our first research output, COP26 side event announcements, and more in our first newsletter, this time with a dedicated GST focus.

Enjoy the read!

First NDC ASPECTS output:

Maximising the impact of the Global Stocktake

The NDC ASPECTS team just released the project’s first output, a policy brief on GST design and implementation options. It suggests, inter alia, a sectoral approach to the GST as sectors constitute the communities of action which climate policy needs to address. Building on inputs by experts and policy makers during an online policy dialogue in October, the paper was published right ahead of COP26 in Glasgow.

Find out more here.

NDC ASPECTS at COP 26 in Glasgow

Evidence for COP26: bridging the evidence-policy gap.

03 November, 12:00 CET (11:00 GMT) - Strathclyde University and online

NDC ASPECTS partners IIMA and E3modelling are participating in an online COP26 side event of the Climate Compatible Growth programme. The session will discuss five policy briefings commissioned by the CCG programme for the COP26 unit in the UK government. These briefings were commissioned to feed into the Energy Transition Council dialogues between the UK and a group of low- and middle-income countries. The session is an opportunity to hear briefing authors discuss their results and policy implications and a response from Hana Chambers, UK government’s Cabinet Office.
The event will be chaired by Prof. Jim Watson (CCG/UCL)

For participation online, please register at: climatecompatiblegrowth.com

Informing the Global Stocktake - Emissions reduction targets and beyond.

10 November, 12:30 CET (11:30 GMT) - EU Pavilion

Ratcheting up climate ambition requires an assessment not only of progress toward emission targets, but also of processes that can increase climate ambition - as well as barriers preventing progress. This event will discuss methodological insights for how to assess Party and non-Party actions in a bottom-up manner by presenting examples from different countries.

Energy Transition Council dialogues: New Paper on Climate Compatible Development Pathways for India

The outcome of the GST will be used to inform Parties on ways to update and enhance their NDCs. NDC ASPECTS partners IIMA and E3modelling recently carried out an analysis of the Indian NDC with a focus on the challenges in achieving decarbonization in the country, particularly in relation to energy security, accessibility, grid stability, and affordability goals, and on the new opportunities from energy sector restructuring, including reduction of local pollution and creation of new green jobs.

Read the full paper here.

GST inputs portal: comprehensive UNFCCC database

In September, the UNFCCC secretariat launched its Global Stocktake Inputs portal. Inputs can be submitted by Parties and observer organisations until February 2022, taking into account the SB Chair’s updated guiding questions.

The technical assessment will begin in June 2022, while the information collection and preparation component will run until SB58 in Summer 2023. The portal already contains a wealth of documents, which can be browsed and filtered at https://unfccc.int/topics/global-stocktake/inputs.

You can access further information on all three GST components, on the informal consultations preceding the COP, and more at https://unfccc.int/topics/global-stocktake.

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The NDC ASPECTS project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under grant agreement No 101003866.

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