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Understanding pledge and review: learning from analogies to the Paris Agreement review mechanisms

  • This article draws lessons for the effectiveness of the Paris Agreement’s pledge and review mechanisms from the performance of comparable review mechanisms established under other international treaties. The article employs systematic evidence synthesis methods to review the existing literature on international review mechanisms in the human rights, trade, labour, and monetary policy fields and identifies six common factors influencing their performance. Applying these findings to the Paris Agreement, the analysis finds that its review mechanisms incorporate many of these factors. In particular, they combine both expert and peer review, allow for repeated interaction and capacity building, and facilitate the regular and transparent provision of information. The comparative analysis also highlights two major deficiencies of the Paris Agreement: the absence of procedures to assess the adequacy of national pledges and actions taken to implement them, and resource constraints in carrying out a complex and arduous review process. Active engagement of non-state actors with review mechanisms is identified as a potential remedy to these shortcomings. However, the overall experience of other regimes suggests that, on their own, review mechanisms provide few incentives for states to undertake significant policy changes. Rather, the political context of each regime conditions the performance of review mechanisms. We therefore conclude that the Paris Agreement’s review mechanisms alone are unlikely to bring about the necessary ratcheting up of climate policy ambitions.

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Metadaten
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Author(s):Kilian Raiser, Christian FlachslandORCiD, Başak Çalı
Parent Title (English):Climate Policy
Publication year:2022
Embargo Date:2023/04/17
Publishing Institution:Hertie School
First Page:1
Last Page:25
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2022.2059436
Release Date:2022/04/25
Notes:
This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Climate Policy. The final authenticated version is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2022.2059436
Hertie School Research:Centre for Sustainability
Centre for Fundamental Rights
AY 21/22:AY 21/22
Licence of document (German):Metadaten / metadata
Licence of document (German):Metadaten (öffentlich), post-print
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