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mandates and/or resources. Some INDCs note strengthening the existing institutions and
their capacities among the priority actions that Parties are planning to undertake to
implement their respective INDCs. Some Parties communicated information referring to
their established domestic measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) systems, while
some INDCs highlight developing or improving the existing MRV systems among the
priority actions for their implementation. Some INDCs include information on the
establishment of various inter-agency, intergovernmental and multi-stakeholder forums or
mechanisms that focus on climate change on an ongoing basis. Some Parties have
established institutions to provide capacity-building and information-sharing platforms at
the national and regional levels.
Existing legislation and policies
148. Most of the INDCs build on and/or are embedded in existing climate change and/or
development strategies, policies and legislation, reflecting national circumstances, or have
triggered processes for climate change policymaking and will lead to new policies and
legislation (39 INDCs, 33 per cent). While the level of ambition and the degree of
advancement in national climate policies vary, all Parties mentioned that their INDCs are
based on, among others, existing policies or ongoing national processes, as well as
experiences with implementing the Convention and its Kyoto Protocol.
149. Many of the INDCs are already backed up by existing domestic legislation or
policies. Most Parties in this context elaborated on: their current national green growth,
climate change, sustainable development and related sectoral policies (e.g. energy,
transport, agricultural and forestry policy); their international commitments under the
Kyoto Protocol and the Doha Amendment; existing domestic regulations and laws; and
their performance to date. A few of the INDCs identify a lack of sufficient legislation and
policies that would be needed for their implementation and resulting capacity-building
requirements.
150. Some of the INDCs include specific policies that provide the potential for scaling up
and further development in the context of their implementation. Some examples of current
policies include comprehensive national legally binding climate change and energy
legislation, national climate change strategies, carbon taxes/levies on CO 2 emissions,
domestic and regional emissions trading schemes, GHG emission inventories and registries,
among others.
151. Some of the INDCs provide information on processes towards creating new
legislation and policies, triggered by the preparation of the INDCs, including the
establishment of national carbon pricing instruments, efficiency targets and incentives for
low-carbon technologies, while a few of the INDCs contain information acknowledging
that new institutions will be created to facilitate implementation.
152. Some Parties noted that the implementation of their INDCs will involve
strengthening laws and regulations on climate change and further integrating related
objectives into long-term economic and social development plans, as well as the
improvement of the overall administration, performance evaluation and accountability
system on climate change and low-emission development targets. In some cases, this will
require revisions to the existing legal and policy frameworks. A few Parties in their INDCs
highlighted specific laws and policies that need to be revised or enhanced during the
implementation. Yet, a few Parties specified that the INDC as a whole or the revisions to
the existing policies will be subject to approval by their national parliaments.
Priority areas for future implementation
153. On the basis of their national circumstances and development priorities, many
Parties outlined priority areas with high mitigation potential (see figure 7). In this context,
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