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Paris Climate Change Agreement: Peppered With Poor Prose.

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Paris Climate Change Agreement: Peppered With Poor Prose.

Inefficient language in the Paris Climate Change Agreement makes it a really difficult read and will alienate millions of readers. The main issue: not enough strong, living verbs to breathe life into the most important document the world has produced. Let's hope the progress reports are far more efficient to read and understand.

Inefficient language in the Paris Climate Change Agreement makes it a really difficult read and will alienate millions of readers. The main issue: not enough strong, living verbs to breathe life into the most important document the world has produced. Let's hope the progress reports are far more efficient to read and understand.

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Paris Climate Change Agreement: Peppered With Poor Prose.

  1. 1. consideration adoption provision delivery elaboration application approval readiness development preparation dissemination maintenance completeness consistency comparability introduction diversification coordination achievement transparency formulation adequacy adaptation mobilisation effectiveness continuation accuracy implementation enhancement management stressing emphasising encouraging accelerate strongly urges ‘global stocktake’ take ownership notes with concern striving to improve reiterating its resolve resolves to strengthen demonstrating pursuant to contained in to engage in in order to in accordance with in a timely manner on an annual basis with the purpose of with respect to efforts convene a facilitative dialogue a cooperative and facilitative basis with respect to conduct a facilitative dialogue in conjunction with in the light of thereof mutatis mutandis inter alia provide advice providing guidance develop recommendations taking into account the provision of the avoidance of the organisation of making a recommendation coherence and coordination provide regular updates provide overarching guidance undertake a periodic assessment make effective use of for the implementation of to give effect to the successful execution of adequacy and effectiveness of in order to facilitate clarity with a view to providing a recommendation take into consideration in the implementation of enhance the provision of support and enabling environments participate in a facilitative, multilateral consideration of progress Language that makes understanding immediate. Need to be less complex and/or use synonyms. Latin words would alienate most readers. Ghost verbs are harder to understand than living verbs. Ghost verb combinations are even harder to understand. Paris Climate Change Agreement: Peppered with Poor Prose.

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