European Capacity Building Initiative

QELROs in Paris

A Legal Note which considers the legal options for creating such a space for Quantified Emission Limitation and Reduction Obligations (QELROs) in the Paris Agreement. In particular, it explores the legal feasibility of having an annex to a Treaty/Protocol where Parties could inscribe targets which would automatically become legally binding.

FC Publication Date: 
30 May 2014
FC Publication: 
Author: 
Laurel Murray