CONCLUSION

The Paris Agreement introduces a new global regime for addressing climate change. The balanced implementation of ACE, underpinned by an ACE National Strategy, is key to unlock the power of a whole-of-society approach. With the publication of this draft framework, the community review will begin, followed by identification of data sources, index co-creation, and establishing baselines.

Overall, in each dimension the ACE National Strategy was highlighted as a means to provide long-term, comprehensive planning base that enables policy coherence, expansion of the vital political space for climate action in society, coordination, mobilization of national and international funding, and monitoring, reporting and evaluation. The existing implementation gaps within the aforementioned international frameworks can inform the creation of ACE National Strategy objectives.