Institut du développement durableet des relations internationales (IDDRI)
2016

Long-term low emissions development strategies and the Paris Agreement – Why, what and how?

According to the Paris Agreement's article 4.19: "All Parties should strive to formulate and communicate long-term low greenhouse gas emission development strategies, mindful of Article 2 taking into account their common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities, in the light of different national circumstances."

This Policy Brief examines what long-term low greenhouse gas emission development strategies (LT-LEDS) should be and, even more importantly, what motivations and guiding principles their designing should be based upon. In the end, LT-LEDS should be conceived as above all short- and long-term policy-relevant structured strategy exercises, not as modelling exercises.