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Research Project on UNFCCC Development and Response Analyses in Global Stocktake

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The global environmental legal governance framework established by the UN-FCCC and the Paris Agreement under it undertakes the reduction responsibilities of the Kyoto Protocol until 2020 and enters into climate action with the pursuit of tem-perature control at 1.5°C (Race to Zero & Race to Resilience). To achieve the net-zero goal of decarbonization and just transition, the implementation of the "Global Stocktake" enables countries to consolidate their reduction ambitions for the next phase in 2035. Looking into Taiwan's 2050 net-zero emission pathway, climate gov-ernance has long been integrated into national policy, technology research and devel-opment, economic development, and the transformation strategy of a decarbonized society. It makes climate action the basis of national and industrial competitiveness and significantly impacts enterprises and people's livelihood activities. With COP28 being held in 2023 in the United Arab Emirates Dubai, the parties actively called for the urgency of mitigation actions in 2030 based on the Paris Rulebook of the "Glas-gow Climate Pact" and the "Sharm El-Sheikh Implementation Plan." Parties not yet submitted should update their ambitious NDC goals and long-term strategies for 2050 before COP28. With the " adaptation gap" gaining attention, developing global adap-tation targets will guide a resilient future. The COP28 negotiations will also focus on the infrastructure of the reduction mechanism in pre-2030 and formulate new goals for climate funds. Accordingly, to ensure national competitiveness, economic growth, and a sustainable environment and promote a balanced national climate policy, this project explores the international climate and energy policy based on the "Climate Change Response Act" to respond strategically to the net-zero global trend. To deepen Taiwan's participation in climate action and create more favorable conditions for industrial competitiveness, this project strengthens the cooperation be-tween experts and think tanks, hoping to grasp the trend of international negotiations and pursue opportunities for green growth. By assisting the government in climate negotiations and activities such as COP28, the project will implement Taiwan's prag-matic participation in international organizations and facilitate climate policy commu-nication and mutual support with partners. Therefore, targeting Taiwan's strategic de-velopment proposes of the UNFCCC and Paris Agreement, the primary outcomes in-clude as follows: 1. Studying negotiation progress of the Paris Agreement and the Sharm El-Sheikh Implementation Plan in response to Taiwan's climate governance agenda: This project analyses trends in the Sharm el-Sheikh Implementa-tion Plan, including progress towards global climate goals, Global Goal on Adaptation, the organizational function and funding of the Climate Finance, Loss and Damage Fund, the Paris Agreement's transparency framework, and the progress of the Global Stocktake, and examines and proposes recommendations for Taiwan's legal, institutional, and institu-tional convergence on climate action and sustainable development. 2. Studying the development of mid-term and long-term low climate policy developments for proposing Taiwan climate action strategies and benefit assessment: Through the analysis, this project grasps the intentions and corresponding practices of the medium- and long-term climate goals of the Parties, the IPCC AR6 Synthesis Report, the UNEP Emission Gap Report, the IEA, and other critical international scientific research re-ports, and analyses the critical revelations for the development of our climate policy; Meanwhile, the project has made use of the methodology for evaluating the impacts of response measures to examine the case study of "Incentive subsidy - phasing out old motorbikes and replacing them with electric ones", including the monetization of the environmental impacts, economic impacts and social impacts, and completing three ex-pert consultation forums. 3. Integrating the positions of international climate negotiations and pro-moting partnerships for global climate governance and cooperation among think tanks: The project consolidated the positions and opinions of various international parties on climate negotiations and organized the side event during SB58 with the ICD, an international academic research think tank. The side event focused on the dialogue and exchanges be-tween Taiwan's carbon pricing system and the implementation of Article 6 of the Paris Agreement and explored the technical connotations of the design of Taiwan's legal framework and transparency framework. In ad-dition, through a series of forums organized by the ICD and the Taiwan Climate Partnership during the period of COP28, a cooperation report was submitted to promote the construction of Taiwan's climate capacity, expand the partnership of Taiwan's climate action, and show the achievements of Taiwan's climate action. 4. Organizing preparatory works for the Taiwan MOENV to participate in the UNFCCC's conference activities: This project has dispatched repre-sentatives to attend the SB58 and COP28 conferences and co-organized a side event with the Marshall Islands on 2 December. We also organized exhibitions to market and publish Taiwan's climate action through minis-terial articles to raise international recognition. This project has complet-ed a total of three strategy discussion meetings, which have consolidated the participation of domestic ministries and the division of labor between these ministries concerning the issues they are concerned about so that they can effectively plan for the overall strategy for the participation of Taiwan.
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UNFCCC, Paris Agreement, Global Stocktake
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