National Climate Change Legislation - the key to high international ambition

GLOBE International and the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) have published a paper examining the linkage between domestic legislation on climate change and countries' positions at the international negotiations in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. One of its main findings being that national legislation does not merely underpin international agreements but can, in fact, work as their main enabler, the paper advances specific recommendations for governments to increase the level of ambition of international negotiations.

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