The IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C  stresses that both international and national climate policy efforts need to increase to limit global warming to 1.5°C. 

These efforts will require the scaling up of ambition within and beyond current Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) under the Paris Agreement, including transformative systematic change in policy, technology and behaviour across all regions and sectors.

Climate Strategies has prepared three Insight Briefs that cover key topics regarding IPCC Special Report:

• Implications of the IPCC Special Report on 1.5 degrees for scaling up Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) under the Paris Agreement
• Policy dialogues in integrated assessment modelling (IAM) to strengthen climate change mitigation and adaptation
• Achieving 1.5 degrees in the real world: Opportunities, barriers and trade-offs

These briefs provided insight and recommendations for policy-makers across a range of pertinent issues, and were officially submitted to the UNFCCC facilitative dialogue which can be downloaded from the Talanoa Dialogue website. They provide a resource to help relevant stakeholders better understand the implications of IPCC Special Report on 1.5 degrees for global climate policy.

The insight briefs were presented at the 3rd “Global View Spotlight” webinar, convened by the ClimateWorks Foundation on the 31st October 2018.

The insight briefs were authored by a multi-disciplinary team of researchers: Peter Newell and Dian Phylipsen (Insight #1); Oscar van Vliet and Takeshi Takama (Insight #2); and Michael Mehling and Ambuj D. Sagar (Insight #3).

All briefs were edited by Joanna Depledge and reviewed by Heleen de Coninck. Climate Strategies and the research team gratefully acknowledge funding from ClimateWorks Foundation for this project.