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9 Climate L. 1 (2019)

handle is hein.journals/climatla9 and id is 1 raw text is: ...... CLIMATE LAW 9 (2019) 1-2 BRILL NIJHOFF brill.com/cI1a Introduction to the Special Issue on the Paris Rulebook Jolene Lin Asia Pacific Centre for Environmental Law, National University of Singapore jolene.lin@nus.edu.sg Alexander Zahar Research Institute of Environmental Law, Wuhan University zahar.edu@gmailcom The UNFCCC/CMA conference in November-December 2018 (COP 24/CMA 1.3) adopted several decisions that have made the Paris Agreement operational.' The decisions relate to the Agreement's articles on NDC content and process, climate finance, the Transparency Framework, the Global Stocktake, and the committee tasked with facilitating implementation and promoting compli- ance (Articles 4, 9, 13, 14, and 15 of the treaty, respectively). There was no deci- sion on the important emission-trading mechanisms (Article 6) or on certain lesser matters that were under negotiation,2 so the Paris Rulebook is still par- tially incomplete. Nevertheless, enough rules were agreed upon at the end of last year to make possible the scholarly analysis presented in this special issue. The issue came together as a result of a unique collaboration. It consists of articles written shortly after the close of COP 24/CMA 1.3. Drafts of the papers were circulated among the authors and then presented and critiqued at a workshop hosted by the Asia-Pacific Centre of Environmental Law at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore, on 24-25 January 2019. The workshop was open to all, and it benefitted from the attendance of Singapore-based scholars, NGO rep- resentatives, government officials, and others, whose input to the peer-review process was highly appreciated. i See <https://unfccc.int/katowice> for the decision text. 2 See e.g. C MA (Paris Agreement), Decision 6/CMA. 7, Common Time Frames for Nationally Deter- mined Contributions Referred to in Article 4, Paragraph 7o, of the Paris Agreement (2018). © KONINKLIJKE BRILL NV, LEIDEN, 2019 DOI:10.1163/18786561-00901001