The Global Challenges Foundation, Climate Governance Commission, Stimson Center and others have made proposals to improve the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and its Conference of the Parties (COP), in particular to enhance delivery, action and accountability on the UNFCCC objectives and obligations.
The proposals involve enhancing the legal framework applicable to climate change, expanding UNFCC and COP to a whole ecosystem approach, expanding the role of the secretariat through cooperation with related environmental regimes, improving civil society engagement and strengthening compliance mechanisms including on financing for adaptation, mitigation and implementation.
Specific proposals include:
- Establishing a Global Citizens’ Assembly as a subsidiary body of the UNFCCC;
- Establishing an Independent Commission of the Paris Agreement Implementation and Compliance Committee which would have the mandate to a) set strengthened common standards for country reports on their Nationally Determined Contributions to carbon emission reductions, and b) systematically assess the country reports.