The Paris Framework for Climate Change Capacity Building aims to fill a gap in the literature by unearthing the ineffective and unsustainable practices of capacity building by bilateral and multilateral agencies in developing countries in the last decade, the gaps and lacunae in those processes, and the way forward.

Mizan R. Khan is a Professor of Environmental Management at North South University, Bangladesh, and a Lead Author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessment reports. He serves as a lead member in the Bangladesh delegation to the UNFCCC negotiations since 2001. .

J. Timmons Roberts is Ittleson Professor of Environmental Studies and Sociology at Brown University, Providence, IR, USA, and founder and leader of the Climate and Development Lab at the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society.

Saleemul Huq is the Director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and a frequent advisor for the Least Developed Countries negotiating group. He has also been a Lead Author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessment reports.

Victoria Hoffmeister is an analyst at Redstone Strategy Group, working as a consultant for climate- and conservation-focused foundations and nonprofits. She worked for three years as a member of the Climate and Development Lab at Brown University, as well as in the White House Council on Environmental Quality during the Obama administration.

1. 'Puzzling, confusing, and... vacuous': capacity building from the World Bank to climate governance
2. The meagre history and politics of capacity building under the UNFCCC
3. Has it worked elsewhere? Capacity-building efforts in development and environmental regimes
4. Needed: a capacity-building framework that's up to the task
5. Case studies of capacity building in Bangladesh, Uganda and Jamaica
6. Lessons learned from agency initiatives on capacity building
7. Universities as the central hub of capacity building
8. Capacity building and transparency under Paris
9. Conclusion: mplementing the Paris framework on capacity building