Equity and Legal form for sustained capacity building

Equity and Legal form for sustained capacity building in support of international climate change negotiations pour un renforcement durable des capacités en appui aux négociations internationales sur les changements climatiques european capacity building initiative ecbi european capacity building initiative européenne de renforcement des ecbi

Legal Form 2. The outcome should cover all aspects of the negotiations (mitigation, adaptation, finance, tech. transfer etc) european capacity building initiative ecbi 1. As the convention already provides a general legal framework (in order to add value) the new agreement should outline specific goals and obligations, 3. A new international treaty/agreement under the Convention is the desired outcome of the ADP negotiations 4. The treaty must be durable but flexible enough to respond to changing circumstances.

5. While core issues - i. e. mitigation and finance - should be addressed in a new international agreement/treaty other areas may be dealt with outside the new legal instrument (e. g. in COP decisions, unilateral declarations) Unilaterally binding declarations Mix bags of Political outcomes agreement (e. g. on national legislation) COP decisions Amendments of Convention and/or Protocol 6. There are, however, different opinions if and to what extent these other issues should not also be in the treaty, or can be meaningfully addressed by other formal tools outside the new treaty european capacity building initiative ecbi New international treaty (Protocol, Implementation Agreement, Covenant etc) None

Equity • Categorisation through organisational memberships • Categorisation through parameters european capacity building initiative ecbi How could differentiation be further applied to an already binary differentiated treaty?

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2. How does the Spectrum of Commitments deal with equity? european capacity building initiative ecbi 1. How does the “Spectrum of Commitments” fit into this legal picture?