Jennifer Huang

Director for International Strategies, Center for Climate and Energy Solutions

Jennifer Huang is Director of the International Program at the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES). Ms. Huang helps facilitate dialogue among international policymakers and manages the C2ES Global Stocktake Project developing a framework for a productive consideration of opportunities for enhanced climate action. She also tracks and researches international climate policy, focusing on key issues in the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiations.

Prior to joining C2ES, Ms. Huang worked as a Law Clerk at the White House Council on Environmental Quality and as a Legal Intern in the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action (ADP) Implementation Strategy Unit at the UNFCCC secretariat in Bonn, Germany.

Ms. Huang holds an L.L.M. degree in environmental law with a focus on climate change and a J.D. with certificates in international and environmental law from Pace Law School. She received an interdisciplinary Bachelor of Arts in war and military studies from New York University.

 

 

Posts by Jennifer Huang

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What are Investable NDCs? (Discussion Paper)

Parties are expected to communicate new nationally determined contributions (NDCs) by February 10, 2025, with an end date of 2035. Although many first and second-round NDCs were designed to attract investment, they did not deliver the results that many hoped …

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A Solutions-oriented Approach to the Paris Agreement’s Global Stocktake

To ensure success at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s 28th Conference of Parties (COP28), Parties must agree to specific, operational, and transformational signals in the first global stocktake (GST). Drawing upon more than two years of analytical …

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Issues and Options for a Just Transition Work Program

Governments not only recognize that the transition to a zero- or low-emission economy is critical, but also that it must be “just.” In other words, it must maximize social and economic opportunities of climate action while also minimizing and addressing …

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The Santiago Network: Decision Options for COP27

This paper presents options for each of the elements of a possible decision on the Santiago Network (SN) to be adopted at the 27th Conference of the Parties (COP27), based on the draft element text considered at 56th Subsidiary Body …

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Loss and Damage: Issues and Options for COP27

To respond to the urgency of enhancing understanding, action, and support necessary to meet the extreme challenges of climate change, Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) need to accelerate action and support for loss and …

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The Global Goal on Adaptation: Issues for COP26

Adaptation continues to be a high priority, and the delivery on adaptation-related topics and mandates will be integral to achieving a successful outcome at COP26. Adaptation under the Paris Agreement has several important features that together create a system that …

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Loss & Damage: Issues for COP26

Parties have expressed interest in building out more effective implementation of the action and support for loss and damage (L&D). The interest in accelerating action and support for L&D has expressed itself in relation to three issues:  The development of …

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Climate Finance: Issues for COP26

Climate finance refers to the local, national, or transnational financing that supports mitigation and adaptation actions to address climate change. It can be drawn from public, private, and alternative sources of financing. In accordance with the principles of the UN …

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Transparency of Action: Issues for COP 26

At COP24 in Katowice, Poland, the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Paris Agreement (CMA) adopted a detailed set of modalities, procedures, and guidelines (MPGs) to operationalize the Paris Agreement’s enhanced transparency framework …

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NDC ‘snapshot’ raises pressure on Biden climate summit
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Understanding ‘Nationally Determined Contributions’ Under the Paris Agreement

The core of obligation of parties to the Paris Agreement is to undertake a “nationally determined contribution” (NDC) toward the global response to global change. Parties presently are preparing and submitting their second round of NDCs stipulating their respective efforts …

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Transparency helps the world see Paris action clearly
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The ‘Signaling’ Effect of the Paris Agreement

Multilateral agreements generally pertain to the actions of national governments. The Paris Agreement, for instance, sets collective goals and spells out the obligations of the national governments that join it – the most important being the development and implementation of …

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Japan Summit highlights countries’ investments in hydrogen
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Green recovery can get the world on track to Paris
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The future of COPs after Madrid
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Wrapping up the Paris ‘Rulebook’
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A Brief Guide to the Paris Agreement and ‘Rulebook’

The Paris Agreement enshrines global goals, national commitments and multilateral processes aimed at progressively strengthening the global effort against climate change. The agreement, adopted in 2015 under the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), has since been ratified by …

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Elaborating the Paris Agreement: Communicating and Reporting on Adaptation

The Paris Agreement places greater emphasis on adaptation than previous agreements under the UNFCCC. It sets a global adaptation goal, commits parties to undertake adaptation planning and action, commits developed countries to provide adaptation support, and provides for parties to …

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What the Paris Agreement’s global stocktake can learn from the Sustainable Development Goals
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The Paris Agreement Presents a Flexible Approach for U.S. Climate Policy

This article first appeared in Volume 11, Number 4 of the Carbon and Climate Law Review. The Paris Agreement was specifically designed to provide sovereign nations with the flexibility they need to craft their own greenhouse gas reduction plans. The …

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Bonn Esprit: Elaborating the Paris rulebook
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Talanoa Dialogue: Building Trust and Informing Climate Action
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A bright future for the International Solar Alliance
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Why transparency makes the Paris Agreement a good deal
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Lessons learned from climate transparency
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UNFCCC Climate Transparency: Lessons Learned

The Paris Agreement establishes an “enhanced transparency framework” to build mutual trust and confidence and to promote effective implementation. This framework combines common reporting and review requirements for all parties with “built-in flexibility” for developing countries. The agreement requires that …

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Key Issues in Completing the Paris Climate Architecture

The Paris Agreement establishes an international framework to strengthen the global response to climate change. Governments are now negotiating operational aspects of the agreement, including details of the transparency framework; a five-year cycle to review collective progress and update parties’ …

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Post-Paris transparency under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

The following article appeared in the July 2016 issue of the American Bar Association International Environmental and Resources Law Committee Newsletter.   Introduction Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC, or Convention) reached a landmark agreement …

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International transparency provides domestic benefits
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Action on HFCs heats up
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Approaches to Structuring a High Ambient Temperature Exemption

As parties to the Montreal Protocol consider an amendment to phase down hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), one critical concern is whether suitable alternatives for air-conditioning applications are available and adequately demonstrated for cooling capacity and energy efficiency under conditions of high ambient …

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Climate agreement signals to business to invest, innovate
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How the Paris Agreement will bring transparency to climate action
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What would a “legal” agreement in Paris look like?
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Addressing Adaptation in a 2015 Climate Agreement

With the adverse effects of climate change becoming more frequent and intense, all countries face increasing climate risks and adaptation needs. The negotiations toward a new climate agreement in 2015 present an unparalleled opportunity to elevate and advance climate adaptation …

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Support for a spectrum of contributions to the 2015 agreement