The shift from binding and long term emissions targets to voluntary Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) made inevitable the second historic shift in
international climate mitigation efforts, which is the formal and explicit recognition that we do not, in fact, have all the technology we need to achieve deep reductions in emissions.
The World Bank Group estimates that widespread global cooperation on carbon trading could bring down the costs of
international climate mitigation efforts by up to 32 percent by 2030.
The tumultuous 2009 Copenhagen conference seemed at the time to spell the end of a UN-centred framework to organise
international climate mitigation efforts in favour of smaller and narrower institutional settings.
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With the renewed public interest in
climate change
mitigation after the Paris conference, the question was, whether or not the COP would generate results and help to keep momentum in
international climate protection
efforts.
«The special issue of the
International Journal of Global Warming focuses on a crucial topic: «Loss and damage» which refers to adverse effects of
climate variability and
climate change that occur despite
mitigation and adaptation
efforts,» Editor - in - Chief Ibrahim Dincer of the University of Ontario Institute of Technology says.
An open access special issue of the
International Journal of Global Warming brings together, for the first time, empirical evidence of loss and damage from the perspective of affected people in nine vulnerable countries...... «Loss and damage» refers to adverse effects of
climate variability and
climate change that occur despite
mitigation and adaptation
efforts.
Reliable GHG inventories are essential, both at national and
international level, for: assessing the
international community's collective and individual
efforts to address
climate change and progress toward meeting the ultimate objective of the Convention; evaluating
mitigation options; assessing the effectiveness of policies and measures; making long - term emission projections; providing the foundation for emission trading schemes.
International efforts to address
climate change have focused on reducing the amount of warming greenhouse gases emitted into the atmosphere, or
mitigation.
This misses enormous opportunities for effective action to reduce human suffering due to
climate and weather disasters, and to lay a stable foundation for cooperative
international efforts to address both
climate adaptation and
mitigation.