The “Highest Possible Ambition” on climate change mitigation as a legal standard

Mayer, B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0669-7457 (2024) The “Highest Possible Ambition” on climate change mitigation as a legal standard. International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 73 (2). pp. 285-317. ISSN 1471-6895 doi: 10.1017/S0020589324000010

Abstract/Summary

The Parties to the Paris Agreement have committed to communicate successive ‘nationally determined contributions’ (NDCs) to the global response to climate change. Each NDC is expected to reflect the Party's ‘highest possible ambition’ (HPA) on the mitigation of climate change. This article envisages the possibility of taking HPA seriously: that is, of approaching it as an effective legal standard. It shows that, in some circumstances, the HPA standard can help to assess whether a State has complied with due diligence obligations on climate change mitigation.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/118969
Identification Number/DOI	10.1017/S0020589324000010
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	No Reading authors. Back catalogue items Arts, Humanities and Social Science > School of Law
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
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