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Towards COP26: Detangling the Knots of Climate Negotiations by Margherita Bianchi Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation ABSTRACT The upcoming 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) requires effort to make progress on the remaining details of the Paris rulebook – unresolved from the previous COP25 – and part of the structural backbone to untap the Paris Agreement’s potential. Pending details include a decision on common timeframes, on the enhanced transparency framework and on international carbon markets (Article 6). Secondly, as countries plan their economic recoveries around the world, mobilising additional and transformative climate finance is of utmost importance: on the road to COP26 a number of key conversations need to gain wider space, including that on adaptation and on “loss and damage” impacts. Thirdly, COP26 must gather revised pledges (NDCs) from the parties and set the way forward for progressively higher ambition through to 2023 – when the Global Stocktake of the Paris Agreement will assess the collective progress towards achieving its purpose – and beyond. IAI PAPERS 21 | 25 - JUNE 2021ISSN 2610-9603 | ISBN 978-88-9368-201-5? 2021 IAIU IAI PAPERS 21 | 25 - JUNE 2021 ISSN 2610-9603 | ISBN 978-88-9368-201-5 ? 2021 IAI keywords 2IAI P 2 IAI PAPERS 21 | 25 - JUNE 2021 ISSN 2610-9603 | ISBN 978-88-9368-201-5 ? 2021 IAI Towards COP26: Detangling the Knots of Climate Negotiations Towards COP26: Detangling the Knots of Climate Negotiations by Margherita Bianchi* Introduction Against a backdrop of growing consensus and societal engagement around climate change, the 25th Conference of the Parties (COP25) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) took place in Madrid in 2019, with the main objective of agreeing on the remaining rules of the 2015 Paris Agreement. COP25 was the longest COP on record and one of the most inconclusive, stalled over t