Published by
International Partnership on Mitigation and MRV
Year
2014

Summer School on INDCs - Workshop Report

This year’s Summer School was hosted by the Dominican Republic. It took place from September 3rd to 10th, 2014, in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. Once more, the topics discussed by the 28 participants (thereof 23 representatives from developing countries) were of high relevance both for the international climate negotiations as well as for domestic processes related to the implementations of decisions already taken or possibly to be taken at the negotiations. This year, the participants discussed how to prepare and implement Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs). The Parties to the UNFCCC decided on its last Conference of Parties in Warsaw (COP 19) at the end of 2013 that all countries should prepare such an INDC which is likely to become, in some not yet determined form, part of the new agreement that will be adopted in Paris at COP 21 in 2015. The new agreement will be applicable to all parties, taking into account their common but differentiated
responsibilities and respective capabilities.

The participants used the 7 days of the Summer School to exchange and mutually learn from each other about their domestic INDC processes. They extensively explored this new instrument of the international climate negotiations, discussed possible domestic processes for its preparation and determined what up-front information would need to be provided with the contributions in order to create transparency for other countries and for the international community to be able to assess