The National Implementation of the Paris Agreement

This course was developed by the UN Climate Change (UNFCCC) Secretariat to explain how Parties to the UNFCCC implement the goals of the Paris Agreement through continually increased ambition expressed in national legislation, constitutional amendments, regulations, standards, codes or other mandatory compliance means.

What will you learn?After completing this course, you will be able to:  Analyse the rationale for parties to the UNFCCC and Paris Agreement to incorporate climate considerations within legally binding national instruments.Identify and describe the specific actions that parties to the Paris Agreement should undertake regarding climate change adaptation and mitigation. Evaluate various types of legal instruments appropriate across a range of sectors and governmental structures and key features and examples of many of these.Outline and comprehend the reporting requirements of the Paris Agreement.Describe examples of the societal, financial, technical, and international challenges in establishing and implementing legally binding instruments, and solutions to those.