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Lilly Yejin Lee is a Master of Public Administration candidate at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, and a Departmental Research Assistant at the Center on Global Energy Policy.
The Paris Agreement included two particularly crucial innovations for supporting greenhouse gas emissions reductions: a voluntary, bottom-up nationally determined contribution (NDC) and a ratchet mechanism.