The National Implementation of the Paris Agreement

This course provides guidance on the overarching climate change laws that governments can implement to establish bodies and frameworks for addressing climate change. It also provides examples of mitigation and adaptation legislation across a range of sectors.

After completing the course, participants 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.

Participants who successfully pass the quiz with a minimum grade of 70% within three attempts will get an official UN Climate Change certificate.