Key elements of a global deal on climate change

The purpose of this report is not to prescribe specific instruments or technologies. Different technologies and different policy instruments can be applied to different sectors and countries. Indeed, the more differentiated the global strategy, the greater the scope for learning, so it is important not to be unduly prescriptive on the details of policy action. However, it is important that all the different initiatives add up to delivering the overall objective. The purpose of this report is to support the negotiations of a post-2012 global treaty which needs to be agreed by 2009 and translated into national policy and action plans between 2010-2012. It aims to put forward a coherent set of underlying principles that are consistent with the latest scientific evidence, and which explicitly define options and suggest which are more likely to be suitable.

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