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9 Climate L. 1 (2019)

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   ......               CLIMATE LAW  9 (2019) 1-2
 BRILL
NIJHOFF                                                        brill.com/cI1a



Introduction to the Special Issue on the Paris

Rulebook


       Jolene Lin
       Asia Pacific Centre for Environmental Law, National University of Singapore
       jolene.lin@nus.edu.sg

       Alexander Zahar
       Research Institute of Environmental Law, Wuhan University
       zahar.edu@gmailcom



The UNFCCC/CMA conference in   November-December 2018   (COP  24/CMA 1.3)
adopted  several decisions that have made the Paris Agreement operational.'
The decisions relate to the Agreement's articles on NDC content and process,
climate finance, the Transparency Framework, the Global Stocktake, and the
committee  tasked with facilitating implementation and promoting compli-
ance (Articles 4, 9, 13, 14, and 15 of the treaty, respectively). There was no deci-
sion on the important emission-trading mechanisms (Article 6) or on certain
lesser matters that were under negotiation,2 so the Paris Rulebook is still par-
tially incomplete.
   Nevertheless, enough rules were agreed upon at the end of last year to make
possible the scholarly analysis presented in this special issue. The issue came
together as a result of a unique collaboration. It consists of articles written
shortly after the close of COP 24/CMA 1.3. Drafts of the papers were circulated
among  the authors and then presented and critiqued at a workshop hosted by
the Asia-Pacific Centre of Environmental Law at the Faculty of Law, National
University of Singapore, on 24-25 January 2019. The workshop was open to all,
and it benefitted from the attendance of Singapore-based scholars, NGO rep-
resentatives, government officials, and others, whose input to the peer-review
process was highly appreciated.



i  See <https://unfccc.int/katowice> for the decision text.
2  See e.g. C MA (Paris Agreement), Decision 6/CMA. 7, Common Time Frames for Nationally Deter-
   mined Contributions Referred to in Article 4, Paragraph 7o, of the Paris Agreement (2018).


© KONINKLIJKE BRILL NV, LEIDEN, 2019  DOI:10.1163/18786561-00901001

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