Module 01 · CCPA — Certificate in Climate Policy & Advocacy
The architecture of the Paris Agreement
How the Agreement actually binds: the difference between a procedural obligation and a substantive one, and where discretion sits.
Study time: 55 min
In this module you learn to
- Read Articles 3, 4, 6, 13 and 14 as a connected system rather than separate clauses
- Distinguish what a Party is obliged to do from what it is obliged to achieve
- Locate where the ratchet mechanism creates legal leverage and where it does not
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