The domestic politics of international climate commitments: which factors explain cross-country variation in NDC ambition?

Under the Paris Agreement, parties self-determine their mitigation ambition level by submitting Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). Extant assessments find that the collective ambition of current pledges is not line with the Agreement’s goals and that individual ambition varies greatly acros...

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Main Authors: Vegard Tørstad, Håkon Sælen, Live Standal Bøyum
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2020-01-01
Series:Environmental Research Letters
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab63e0