This updated technical paper compiles information on the mitigation and sustainable development benefits of actions, initiatives and options to enhance mitigation ambition, with a focus on the thematic areas of land use, urban environments, carbon dioxide capture, use and storage, and non-carbon dioxide greenhouse gas emissions. Information for the update was provided in literature, submissions from Parties and observer organizations, and at the technical expert meetings held during the sessions of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action held in June and October 2014 in Bonn, Germany. The technical paper builds upon the previous version of the technical paper,
contained in document FCCC/TP/2014/3 and its addendum FCCC/TP/2014/3/Add.1. This technical paper consists of the main document and four addenda. The addenda are focused on mitigation action in the thematic areas of land use, urban environments, carbon dioxide capture, use and storage, and non-carbon dioxide greenhouse gas emissions.
The addenda elaborate on mitigation potential, progress, benefits, costs and barriers, as well as on good practice policies, key opportunities and options for catalysing action in these four thematic areas.