National policies and their linkages to negotiations over a future international climate change agreement

Abstract

The main purpose of this paper is to help policy makers, particularly those in developing countries, think about the national policy instruments needed to contribute to the fight against climate change, how such needs can be articulated in order to seek internal and external financial resources and how these needs may be reflected in negotiations of a future climate change agreement. This paper is an input to a series of workshops which the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) will organize in developing countries with the aim of improv- ing their capacity to respond to climate change.