Raising The Bar: Climate action synergies to increase ambition and cooperation (Working Paper)
This Working Paper looks at the different ways that can help to make the most of Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) by combining mitigation, adaptation, and means of implementation. We examine how their development and implementation can help countries and groups of countries to take advantage of synergies and co-benefits that exist between climate action and domestic development objectives - while contributing towards a collective goal of staying below 2 degrees of temperature. This Working Paper also examines examples of on-going efforts by different countries and actors along these lines, and considers how these can help countries to develop and become more competitive, while simultaneously reducing their greenhouse gas emissions and becoming more resilient to climate change.