张志伟教授参加《联合国气候变化框架公约》主任评审员会议

RIEL Professor Zhang Zhiwei attended the meeting of the Lead Reviewers of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

March 6 to 17, 2017, the fourth meeting of the Lead Reviewers of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change on reviewing of the biennial report and the national communications was held in Bonn, Germany. Professor Alexander Zahar, as lead reviewer was invited to participate in this meeting. The main content of the meeting is to supervise the review of national reports submitted by States under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol to promote the implementation of the national communication system. It is reported that the meeting will also supervise the review of submitted national reports in accordance with the new "Paris agreement on Climate Change".

The lead reviewers are selected in accordance with the relevant resolutions of the Twentieth Meeting of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, with the responsibility to ensure that the review of national reports by each expert review team would follow the relevant review guidelines and ensures that the objectivity, continuity, comparability and timeliness of the review. The meeting of lead reviewers are held once a year.

Professor Zhang Zhiwei's team is responsible for the development and fine-tuning of the monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) system for international climate change mechanisms. At the meeting, Professor Zhang Zhiwei and other experts in the group made important decisions on how to improve the review. In addition, the Panel has revised the guidance document to be used by the expert review team (composed of expert reviewers led by the lead reviewer) during the next round of next year's review to better guide the review process.

Professor Zhang Zhiwei is editor-in-chief of Climate Law, published by Brill Publishing in the Netherlands. He has long been engaged in research on legal and policy issues relating to climate change and has high visibility in the international arena. Prof. Zhang Zhiwei attended the annual meeting of the Lead Reviewers of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which further demonstrated the influence and visibility of RIEL as the main force of "going out" of China's environmental law.