Publications

This briefing paper assesses the opportunities for Vietnam to transition towards 100% renewable energy and challenges such as high energy demand, the need for energy security, and over-reliance on emissions intensive fossil fuels.

Several of the world biggest emitters have expressed the targets of their National Determined Contributions in non-greenhouse gas units. The current draft CMA decision in relation to Article 6.2 allows for this inclusion, but there are fundamental concerns with regard to the integrity and effectiveness of such approaches.

This briefing unpacks the key challenges and risks associated with using blue carbon as an offsetting mechanism, including how much the carbon storage in coastal ecosystems threatened by current and future climate impacts.

With an outlook to updated Nationally Determined Contributions, this briefing assesses how Parties are expected to do in terms of achieving their 2020 target and the implications for their post-2020 emissions trajectories.