The Climate Change Law and Policy team, in collaboration with Durham University’s Centre for Sustainable Development Law and Policy and the International Cryosphere Climate Initiative, made a joint submission to the Global Stocktake (GST) 2023 process under the Paris Agreement. This GST is a process for taking stock of the implementation of the Paris Agreement with the aim of assessing the world’s collective progress towards achieving the purpose of the Paris Agreement and its long-term goals. The first stocktake got underway at the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow (COP26) and will conclude at COP28 in 2023.

Among others, the submission addressed:-

• the Interpretative Role of Parties’ Decisions
• the legal nature of the GST 
• that collaboration between academia and countries should be supported and recognized as a means to develop best practices in achieving country-specific transitions to a low carbon economy. 
• the relevance of oceans in the GST as a key element to accurately reflect its role and potential in climate adaptation and mitigation.

The joint submission is available at here