Analytic Support to Target Based Negotiations

Interpreting and comparing post-Copenhagen mitigation targets and mechanisms
While there are a broad range of indicators by which equity across countries (and country groups) may be judged, the economic implications of targets will inevitably weigh heavily on the minds of governments. The results of economic models can therefore be expected to feature prominently in the negotiations – and associated domestic debates.

This initiative is intended to address the gap between negotiators and modellers by providing a professional and objective high-level interface service by a team of specialists who are expert in the climate change negotiations and economic modelling fields.

The objective of this initiative is very specific. Through targeted educative and interpretative communications (such as backgrounders, short briefing papers, individual and group presentations and ‘side events’), it is to help the negotiations avoid getting tangled up and confused by economic modelling results. 

Paper series of analytic support to target based negotiations below have been made possible through the generous support of the Nordic COP15 Group, DECC Department of Energy and Climate Change, UK, IGES The Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Japan and the government of Australia.

 

Reports

Synthesis paper on ‘Analytic Support to Target Based Negotiations’
30 Jul 2010. Author: Murray Ward

Issues about Market Demand and Supply in 2020
21 Jun 2010. Author: Murray Ward

Emissions – Pledges and ‘Projected Anyway’ in 2020
31 May 2010. Author: Murray Ward

Interpreting Emission Pledges: the need for a Common Accounting Framework - Working Paper
28 May 2010. Author: Antonia Baker

Forecasting CER supply up to 2020 - Working Paper
27 May 2010. Author: Keisuke Iyadomi

Economic Growth, the Recession and Greenhouse Gas Emissions - Draft
24 May 2010. Author: Dr. Alex Bowen and Sophia Parker

Comparability of Effort by Annex I Parties: an overview of issues - Working Paper
17 Nov 2009. Author: Murray Ward and Michael Grubb