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What the Lima Call for Climate Action means for Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) / Niklas Höhne, Hanna Fekete &#38; Thomas Day, New Climate Institute's blog, 15/12/2014http://newclimate.org/2014/12/15/what-the-lima-call-for-climate-action-means-for-intended-nationally-determined-contributions-indcs/By providing an agreed set of options for the elements to be included in the agreement and underlying principles, the outcomes of COP20 in Lima – the Lima Call for Climate Action – sets the framework for negotiations throughout 2015. As the curtain finally comes down on yet another very long round of COP negotiations, NewClimate Institute takes a look at what the Lima Call for Climate Action means for the development of Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) over the coming months.Under the Ad-Hoc Durban Platform, countries are currently negotiating a new global climate agreement, the first international climate change agreement expected to explicitly commit all countries to specific climate change mitigation plans (for a blue print of such an agreement see the output of the ACT2015 project)...