The Paris Institutions Sample Clauses

The Paris Institutions. The PA and Paris Decision identify a number of new and existing institutional bodies that will manage the Agree- ment over time. Chief among these is the CMA, which will be the central decisionmaking body for the Parties to implement the Agreement. As the PA itself makes no explicit mention of CE technologies, the CMA will have discretion over the development and integration of rules and processes respecting CE into the Paris frame- work, including the format of the NDCs (Article 4.8) and accounting guidance (Article 4.13). As noted, consider- able progress on implementation rules was made at COP 24 in 2018. The default rules of procedure for the CMA are those currently used by the COP (Article 16.5), and one expects that the Parties will continue to make decisions by consen- sus. Generating consensus around CE technologies, either CDR or SCE, may be a significant challenge (as evidenced by the failure of the UNEA resolution),137 and partially explains the ambiguity around the inclusion of CDR in the PA. That said, the COP under the CBD has similar voting procedures, and has managed to craft (nonbinding) decisions on CE that have been accepted by the Parties.138 It is also likely that the UNFCCC’s Subsidiary Bod- ies for Implementation and Scientific and Technological Advice, incorporated into the PA (Article 18(1)), would play a role in any consideration of CE by the regime. For example, the subsidiary bodies have recently convened a forum that is tasked, inter alia, with assessing the impacts of the implementation of climate response measures and engendering cooperation by the Parties on response strat- egies.139 Under the terms of reference for the forum, it could develop guidance to the Parties and the subsidiary bodies in terms of CE, as well as facilitating ongoing shar- ing of information.140 approaches that are proposed or necessarily relied upon to achieve the Paris targets with a view to ensuring that the balance reflects technological realities, as well as concerns respecting equity and human rights. 134. Xxxxx & Xxxxx, supra note 35. 135. Paris Rulebook, supra note 7. 136. Xxxxx et al., supra note 17. 137. See discussion supra note 8. 138. CBD COP, supra note 43. 139. UNFCCC, Forum on the Impact of the Implementation of Response Measures, xxxx://xxxxxx.xxx/cooperation_support/response_measures/items/7418.php (last visited Oct. 20, 2019). 140. Forum and Work Programme on the Impact of the Implementation of Response Measures, Decs. 11/CP.21, 24, ...