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#cop21 ADOPTION OF THE PARIS AGREEMENT. limit global temperature rise to less than 2C (3.6F)

. ENHANCED ACTION PRIOR TO 2020

106. Resolves to ensure the highest possible mitigation efforts in the pre-2020 period, including by:(a) Urging all Parties to the Kyoto Protocol that have not already done so toratify and implement the Doha Amendment to the Kyoto Protocol;(b) Urging all Parties that have not already done so to make and implement a mitigation pledge under the Cancun Agreements;(c) Reiterating its resolve, as set out in decision 1/CP.19, paragraphs 3 and 4, to accelerate the full implementation of the decisions constituting the agreed outcome pursuant to decision 1/CP.13 and enhance ambition in the pre-2020 period in order to ensure the highest possible mitigation efforts under the Convention by all Parties;(d) Inviting developing country Parties that have not submitted their first biennial update reports to do so as soon as possible;(e) Urging all Parties to participate in the existing measurement, reporting and verification processes under the Cancun Agreements, in a timely manner, with a view to demonstrating progress made in the implementation of their mitigation pledges; 107. Encourages Parties to promote the voluntary cancellation by Party and non-Party stakeholders, without double counting of units issued under the Kyoto Protocol, including

certified emission reductions that are valid for the second commitment period; 108. Urges host and purchasing Parties to report transparently on internationally transferred mitigation outcomes, including outcomes used to meet international pledges, and emission units issued under the Kyoto Protocol with a view to promoting environmental integrity and avoiding double counting; 109. Recognizes the social, economic and environmental value of voluntary mitigation actions and their co-benefits for adaptation, health and sustainable development; 110. Resolves to strengthen, in the period 2016–2020, the existing technical examination process on mitigation as defined in decision 1/CP.19, paragraph 5(a), and decision 1/CP.20,

paragraph 19, taking into account the latest scientific knowledge, including by: (a) Encouraging Parties, Convention bodies and international organizations to

engage in this process, including, as appropriate, in cooperation with relevant non-Party stakeholders, to share their experiences and suggestions, including from regional events, and to cooperate in facilitating the implementation of policies, practices and actions identified during this process in accordance with national sustainable development priorities; (b) Striving to improve, in consultation with Parties, access to and participation

in this process by developing country Party and non-Party experts; (c) Requesting the Technology Executive Committee and the Climate Technology Centre and Network in accordance with their respective mandates:(i) To engage in the technical expert meetings and enhance their efforts to facilitate and support Parties in scaling up the implementation of policies, practices and actions identified during this process; (ii) To provide regular updates during the technical expert meetings on the

progress made in facilitating the implementation of policies, practices and actions previously identified during this process; (iii) To include information on their activities under this process in their joint annual report to the Conference of the Parties; (d) Encouraging Parties to make effective use of the Climate Technology Centre and Network to obtain assistance to develop economically, environmentally and socially viable project proposals in the high mitigation potential areas identified in this process; 111. Encourages the operating entities of the Financial Mechanism of the Convention to engage in the technical expert meetings and to inform participants of their contribution to facilitating progress in the implementation of policies, practices and actions identified during the technical examination process;

112. Requests the secretariat to organize the process referred to in paragraph 110 above and disseminate its results, including by: (a) Organizing, in consultation with the Technology Executive Committee and relevant expert organizations, regular technical expert meetings focusing on specific policies, practices and actions representing best practices and with the potential to be scalable and replicable; (b) Updating, on an annual basis, following the meetings referred to in paragraph 112(a) above and in time to serve as input to the summary for policymakers referred to in paragraph 112(c) below, a technical paper on the mitigation benefits and co-benefits of policies, practices and actions for enhancing mitigation ambition, as well as on options for supporting their implementation, information on which should be made available in a userfriendly

online format;(c) Preparing, in consultation with the champions referred to in paragraph 122 below, a summary for policymakers, with information on specific policies, practices and actions representing best practices and with the potential to be scalable and replicable, and on options to support their implementation, as well as on relevant collaborative initiatives, and publishing the summary at least two months in advance of each session of the

Conference of the Parties as input for the high-level event referred to in paragraph 121 below; 113. Decides that the process referred to in paragraph 110 above should be organized jointly by the Subsidiary Body for Implementation and the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice and should take place on an ongoing basis until 2020;114. Also decides to conduct in 2017 an assessment of the process referred to in paragraph 110 above so as to improve its effectiveness; 115. Resolves to enhance the provision of urgent and adequate finance, technology and

capacity-building support by developed country Parties in order to enhance the level of ambition of pre-2020 action by Parties, and in this regard strongly urges developed country Parties to scale up their level of financial support, with a concrete roadmap to achieve the goal of jointly providing USD 100 billion annually by 2020 for mitigation and adaptation while significantly increasing adaptation finance from current levels and to further provide

appropriate technology and capacity-building support.

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