1. Climate Change Expert Group www.oecd.org/env/cc/ccxg.htm
Gilberto Arias and Paul Watkinson
Breakout Group A
Designing a flexible and durable 2015
agreement
CCXG Global Forum
19 March 2014

2. 2 Climate Change Expert Group
Key emerging themes (1 of 2)
 Emphasis on co-operation, incentives, inclusiveness,
facilitation
 Language: perhaps “adjustments” not the best term
 Review-ist and transformation-ist schools of thought
 Difficult to change outcomes of domestic policy
making processes once completed
 Need long term perspective, context of 2 degree
curve, encourage early action

3. 3 Climate Change Expert Group
Key emerging themes (2 of 2)
 Calls for clarification of time frames, successive
contribution periods could have complementary
functions
 Information on implementation of actions and
adherence is an important policy lever
 Need more creative ways to discourage backsliding –
moratoriums, safety valves, facilitative mechanisms,
rebalancing of packages of contributions
 Agreement to embrace role of non-UNFCCC actors
 Process will be started not completed in 2015,
consider “potential” of the 2015 agreement