The Katowice climate package, adopted in December 2018 during
COP24 in Katowice, Poland, is a set of rules regarding how the Parties will
measure the carbon emissions and report on their emissions-cutting efforts.
This ‘rulebook’ can be called as the detailed “operating manual” of 2015
Paris Agreement, and it includes:
- the information about domestic mitigation and other climate goals
and activities that governments will provide in their Nationally Determined
Contributions (NDCs);
- the rules for the functioning of the Transparency Framework, which
will show to the world what countries are doing about climate change;
- how to assess progress on the development and transfer of
technology;
- how to provide advance information on financial support to
developing countries and the process for establishing new targets on finance
from 2025 onwards
The implementation guidelines for the Paris Agreement respect the different capabilities and socio-economic realities of each country while providing the foundation for ever-increasing ambition with respect to climate action. They establish an effective international system for promoting and tracking progress while empowering countries to build national systems for implementing the Agreement
