the views expressed herein can in no way be taken to reflect the official opinion of the european union the agreement is to be adopted by and come into effect from an effective agreement would include quantitative mitigation commitments from all major emitters and result in concrete actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions while catalysing longterm transformations to lowcarbon and climateresilient economies the aim of this paper is to explore what mitigation commitments put forward under the agreement might look like what guidance might be agreed regarding the type of commitments proposed and which rules of the game would need to be agreed before draft commitments for the post period are put forward