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Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) have become a key concept for mitigation efforts in the context of the negotiations of a new global agreement under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). NAMAs are therefore becoming a key tool for developing countries to structure and promote their potential emission reductions moving politically towards a low carbon development pathway. A number of countries, however, do not have the capacity and the resources to develop a national low carbon development strategy. Therefore many of these countries are taking action on NAMAs in a more individual manner, and many countries need urgently support for strategy development in the form of capacity development and structured international guidance.

This publication analyses how developing countries may arrange their institutional and organizational structures or enhance the existing ones in order to deal with these new developments under the international climate change mitigation regime. Focus is on how to ensure the implementation of NAMAs as vehicles for transformative and long lasting change. The publication presents an overview of the institutional challenges continuously posed to the Parties to the Convention when trying to internalize in national legal and regulatory frameworks the decisions during COP negotiations.