The organisers of the Dubai summit have been working on a new version of the global stocktake after the first draft met with strong criticism
Leo Hickman of Carbon Brief is pointing out that the document “calls on” parties to “contribute to the following global efforts,” writes Bibi van der Zee. In “UNFCCC legal jargon, this is known to mean an ‘invitation’ or ‘request’”, he says. “And, even more crucially, it is the *weakest* of all the various terms used for such exhortations”.
He links to a older post where his colleague Simon Evans shows that the UN has set out these terms formally.
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