Durban Platform Workshop

The Harvard Project on Climate Agreements and MCC co-hosted a workshop on options for a new international climate regime

The Harvard Project on Climate Agreements and the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC) convened a group of 30 leading international researchers and policy-makers on May 23 and 24, 2013 at MCC in Berlin. On these two days, the participants identified and discussed options for a new international climate regime based on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action. This platform, adopted by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in December 2011, provides an opportunity for all key greenhouse-gas-emitting countries to engage in a new international climate regime that can bring about meaningful emissions reductions within a feasible timetable and at acceptable costs. Policy-makers around the world need fresh, out-of-the-box ideas on regime design from the best thinkers – and they need those ideas over the next 12 to 18 months. The workshop will culminate in a synthesis report that is intended to inform UNFCCC negotiations under the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action.

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