Module 05 · CCPA — Climate Policy Analyst
Drafting Clinic: A Binding Framework
The assessed exercise: draft a framework instrument for a chosen jurisdiction and defend it.
Study time: 90 min
By the end of this module you can
- Draft operative provisions, not aspirations
- Anticipate the legal and institutional objections your text will meet
- Defend drafting choices under questioning
Overview
The track's assessed exercise. You choose a jurisdiction, draft the operative provisions of a climate framework instrument for it — provisions, not aspirations — and then defend your drafting choices against the legal and institutional objections they will meet. This is where the four preceding modules are put to work: a target, converted into an instrument, made observable, and able to survive a room.
Exercise
Draft the three core operative clauses of a framework instrument for your chosen jurisdiction: the duty, the instrument that carries it, the reporting hook.
Write the two strongest objections a ministry of finance would raise — and redraft one clause to survive them.
Self-check
Check your understanding
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Phasing buys political cover and gives industry a compliance runway while the data systems are built. The bill becomes survivable.
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One sourced data point outweighs a well-modelled estimate. Withdrawal is the last resort, not the first.
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A review clause gives the law a built-in ratchet that mirrors the international cycle.