A research roadmap for quantifying non-state and subnational climate mitigation action

Non-state and subnational climate actors have become central to global climate change governance. Quantitatively assessing climate mitigation undertaken by these entities is critical to understand the credibility of this trend.

In this Perspective, we make recommendations regarding five main areas of research and methodological development related to evaluating non-state and subnational climate actions:

  • defining clear boundaries and terminology;
  • use of common methodologies to aggregate and assess non-state and subnational contributions;
  • systematically dealing with issues of overlap;
  • estimating the likelihood of implementation;
  • and addressing data gaps.

This article is available on the publisher’s website via restricted access.

Authors

Angel Hsu et.al. with PBL contribution from Mark Roelfsema

Specifications

Publication title
A research roadmap for quantifying non-state and subnational climate mitigation action
Publication date
18 December 2018
Publication type
Publication
Magazine
Nature Climate Change
Product number
3624