@article {mehling_linking_2019,
	title = {Linking Heterogeneous Climate Policies (Consistent with the Paris Agreement).},
	journal = {Environmental Law},
	volume = {8},
	number = {4},
	year = {2019},
	note = {[A-95]},
	pages = {647{\textendash}698},
	abstract = {The Paris Agreement to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change has achieved one of two key necessary conditions for ultimate success{\textemdash}a broad base of participation among the countries of the world. But another key necessary condition has yet to be achieved{\textemdash}adequate collective ambition of the individual nationally determined contributions. How can the climate negotiators provide a structure that will include incentives to increase ambition over time? An important part of the answer can be international linkage of regional, national, and sub-national policies, that is, formal recognition of emission reductions undertaken in another jurisdiction for the purpose of meeting a Party{\textquoteright}s own mitigation objectives. A central challenge is how to facilitate such linkage in the context of the very great heterogeneity that characterizes climate policies along five dimensions: type of policy instrument, level of government jurisdiction, status of that jurisdiction under the Paris Agreement, nature of the policy instrument{\textquoteright}s target, and the nature along several dimensions of each Party{\textquoteright}s Nationally Determined Contribution. We consider such heterogeneity among policies, and identify which linkages of various combinations of characteristics are feasible; of these, which are most promising; and what accounting mechanisms would make the operation of respective linkages consistent with the Paris Agreement.},
	author = {Mehling, Michael A. and Metcalf, Gilbert E. and Robert N. Stavins}
}
