Designing a meaningful global stocktake

The Paris Agreement requires parties to undertake a global stocktake, or GST, every five years to assess collective progress toward the agreement’s long-term mitigation, adaptation, and finance goals.

A well-informed stocktake process could be a meaningful contribution to the Paris Agreement’s cycle of ambition by providing countries with the impetus and information to enhance their nationally determined contributions (NDCs). This could help to set the world on the right path to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement.

Our analysis: Why we need a global stocktake that works

Environmental Defense Fund and the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES) are working together on a project to help shape the global stocktake.

Learn more at C2ES’s global stocktake portal

Resources

Designing a global stocktake

Developed with feedback from several brainstorming sessions with key experts, this paper examines how the GST can deliver a meaningful outcome in an evolving context, takes into account emerging gaps and challenges, and sets out design options.

• Designing a Meaningful Global Stocktake Under the Paris Agreement (C2ES)
• Distilling Critical Signals from the Global Stocktake

Landscape analyses

To provide the basis for the opportunities framework and engagement strategy, C2ES and EDF have developed three landscape analyses, or surveys of current and emerging research, data, frameworks, initiatives, technologies, policy options, and processes within and without the UNFCCC across mitigation, adaptation, and finance.

• Mitigation Landscape Analysis: Themes and Trends Working Paper 
• Landscape Analysis of Adaptation Opportunities for Climate Ambition Working Paper 
• Climate Finance Landscape Analysis: Themes and Trends 

Event recordings

• The Paris Agreement’s “Report Card”: How the Global Stocktake Can Raise Global Ambition 
• Designing a Meaningful Stocktake webinar (hosted by C2ES)
• Ambition: COP 26 and Beyond (New York Climate Week 2021)
• COP 26–US Center