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 four thematic areas of land use, urban environments, carbon dioxide
capture, use and storage, and non-carbon dioxide greenhouse gas emissions. It also
compiles information on support for actions in these thematic areas and possible actions by
the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action. Information for
the update was provided in submissions from Parties and observer organizations, in
relevant literature, 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. This technical paper builds on the previous version of the
technical paper, contained in documents FCCC/TP/2014/3 and Add.1.
This technical paper consists of the main document and four addenda. The addenda
are focused on mitigation action in the four 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 the four
thematic areas.