Greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation actions will need to be accelerated and scaled up at both national and sub-national levels in order to meet the temperature goals of the Paris Agreement. National governments can play an important role in enabling GHG mitigation actions by non-party stakeholders and in enhancing the interaction between national policies and their actions.
This paper explores actions national governments could take to facilitate non-party stakeholder mitigation action in two sub-sectors with large mitigation potential and where non-party stakeholders play a key role in the successful implementation of mitigation activities. These sectors are renewable electricity generation and procurement in cities and reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in sub-national jurisdictions.
This paper also outlines some institutional, regulatory, financial and technical barriers faced by non-party stakeholders in implementing GHG mitigation activities in these sub-sectors and highlights some examples of national policies and measures that have allowed specific non-party stakeholders to overcome these barriers.