COP22 has been dubbed "the COP of action, adaptation and Africa". It is a key opportunity to build confidence in the system of global cooperation adopted at the Paris Climate Conference. The Paris meeting ushered in a new framework for cooperation on climate change based on voluntary emissions reductions targets that will be jointly reviewed every five years. Negotiators gathering in Marrakech for COP22 face the task of making the Paris Agreement work -- and delivering results on a sufficiently large scale.
Cooperation under the Paris framework will help reduce climate change effects, though overshooting of the 2 degree target is inevitable.
The Paris deal's reliance on peer pressure and self-policing will risk national-level backsliding during the implementation process.
Actions taken in the next ten years will determine the impact of climate change on global growth prospects for the whole of this century.
