Suzi Kerr, chief economist at Environmental Defense Fund , says the Climate Action Teams model partners wealthier developed countries with developing countries to reduce emissions globally. It is about increasing ambitions at an affordable cost, and not about using the mechanism to replace or avoid domestic targets and objectives for net zero.
“We would want them to collaborate in a climate team with a country that has a reasonably ambitious Nationally Determined Contributions . And we would not be supporting them just to meet their NDC, we will be supporting them to go beyond.