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 manage C2ES’s international work, particularly in relation to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiations, and facilitates dialogue among international policymakers on key negotiation issues. Her current area of focus is the ambition cycle of the Paris Agreement, in particular the follow up to the outcomes of the first global stocktake (GST), and the evolution of the Paris regime. She managed the C2ES Global Stocktake Project from 2021–23, which helped to shape the GST process by ensuring a strong focus on opportunities to scale up climate ambition and implementation.

Ms. Huang has more than a decade of experience in international climate policy. Prior to joining C2ES, Ms. Huang worked as a law clerk at the White House Council on Environmental Quality and as a legal intern on the Paris Agreement strategy team 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 (now the Elizabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University). 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) […]

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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 […]

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Issues and Options for a Just Transition Work Program

Governments not only recognize that the transition to a zero- […]

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The Santiago Network: Decision Options for COP27

This paper presents options for each of the elements of […]

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Loss and Damage: Issues and Options for COP27

To respond to the urgency of enhancing understanding, action, and […]

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The Global Goal on Adaptation: Issues for COP26

Adaptation continues to be a high priority, and the delivery […]

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Loss & Damage: Issues for COP26

Parties have expressed interest in building out more effective implementation […]

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Climate Finance: Issues for COP26

Climate finance refers to the local, national, or transnational financing […]

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Transparency of Action: Issues for COP 26

At COP24 in Katowice, Poland, the Conference of the Parties […]

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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 […]

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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. […]

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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 […]

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Elaborating the Paris Agreement: Communicating and Reporting on Adaptation

The Paris Agreement places greater emphasis on adaptation than previous […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Key Issues in Completing the Paris Climate Architecture

The Paris Agreement establishes an international framework to strengthen the […]

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

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Support for a spectrum of contributions to the 2015 agreement