The Paris Agreement and Beyond: International Climate Change Policy Post-2020
The Harvard Project on Climate Agreements hosted a research workshop at the Harvard Kennedy School on July 14-15, 2016. Among the participants were 23 of the world's leading researchers focusing on climate-change policy, representing the disciplines of economics, political science, international relations, and legal scholarship. The following document is a compilation of briefs largely based on presentations at the workshop, addressing opportunities for—and challenges to—elaborating, implementing, and complementing the Paris Agreement. The briefs are designed to be readily accessible—and, it is hoped, useful—to negotiators and policy makers, as they consider how to elaborate the Paris Agreement in order to realize its potential to effectively address global climate change.