The International Climate Change Regime: A Guide to Rules, Institutions and ProceduresCambridge University Press, 2004 M12 9 This book presents a comprehensive, authoritative and independent account of the rules, institutions and procedures governing the international climate change regime. Its detailed yet user-friendly description and analysis covers the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Kyoto Protocol, and all decisions taken by the Conference of the Parties up to 2003, including the landmark Marrakesh Accords. Mitigation commitments, adaptation, the flexibility mechanisms, reporting and review, compliance, education and public awareness, technology transfer, financial assistance and climate research are just some of the areas that are reviewed. The book also explains how the regime works, including a discussion of its political coalitions, institutional structure, negotiation process, administrative base, and linkages with other international regimes. In short, this book is the only current work that covers all areas of the climate change regime in such depth, yet in such a uniquely accessible and objective way. |
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... issues with particular reference to climate change . Before joining IDS in 2002 , she was Director of the Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development ( FIELD ) and led its Climate Change and Energy Programme from 1992 ...
... issues with particular reference to climate change . Before joining IDS in 2002 , she was Director of the Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development ( FIELD ) and led its Climate Change and Energy Programme from 1992 ...
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... issues 143 3.1 Adoption and review of mechanism modalities 143 3.2 Equity issues 144 3.3 Supplementarity 145 3.4 Fungibility 146 3.5 Stakeholder involvement 147 4 Participation / eligibility requirements 148 4.1 Protocol ratification ...
... issues 143 3.1 Adoption and review of mechanism modalities 143 3.2 Equity issues 144 3.3 Supplementarity 145 3.4 Fungibility 146 3.5 Stakeholder involvement 147 4 Participation / eligibility requirements 148 4.1 Protocol ratification ...
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... issues , is as intricate and far - reaching as the climate problem itself . But it is also increasingly inaccessi- ble to the wide range of affected interests . The underlying complexity of the cli- mate problem and the sheer pace of ...
... issues , is as intricate and far - reaching as the climate problem itself . But it is also increasingly inaccessi- ble to the wide range of affected interests . The underlying complexity of the cli- mate problem and the sheer pace of ...
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... issues often raise equity issues and demands for social justice . In these situations , soft law instruments can act as a ' half - way ' stage in environmental law - making processes , bridging law with policy to which states wish to ...
... issues often raise equity issues and demands for social justice . In these situations , soft law instruments can act as a ' half - way ' stage in environmental law - making processes , bridging law with policy to which states wish to ...
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... issues such as technology transfer , adaptation and impacts of response measures ) , and to complete the unfin- ished business from Kyoto . Most Annex I Parties felt that this unfinished business- including rules for the three ...
... issues such as technology transfer , adaptation and impacts of response measures ) , and to complete the unfin- ished business from Kyoto . Most Annex I Parties felt that this unfinished business- including rules for the three ...
Contents
LXIII | 343 |
LXIV | 363 |
LXV | 369 |
LXVI | 378 |
LXVII | 380 |
LXVIII | 382 |
LXIX | 384 |
LXX | 386 |
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XIX | 48 |
XX | 56 |
XXI | 59 |
XXII | 60 |
XXIV | 66 |
XXV | 74 |
XXVII | 77 |
XXVIII | 89 |
XXIX | 93 |
XXX | 105 |
XXXI | 136 |
XXXIII | 140 |
XXXIV | 143 |
XXXV | 148 |
XXXVI | 156 |
XXXVII | 159 |
XXXVIII | 187 |
XXXIX | 193 |
XL | 197 |
XLIII | 205 |
XLIV | 213 |
XLV | 214 |
XLVI | 218 |
XLVII | 231 |
XLVIII | 241 |
XLIX | 247 |
LI | 248 |
LII | 253 |
LIII | 258 |
LIV | 264 |
LV | 265 |
LVI | 283 |
LVII | 289 |
LVIII | 296 |
LIX | 303 |
LX | 315 |
LXI | 327 |
LXII | 330 |
LXXI | 398 |
LXXII | 399 |
LXXIII | 423 |
LXXIV | 431 |
LXXV | 432 |
LXXVI | 434 |
LXXVII | 436 |
LXXVIII | 438 |
LXXIX | 441 |
LXXX | 445 |
LXXXI | 449 |
LXXXII | 457 |
LXXXIII | 460 |
LXXXIV | 461 |
LXXXVI | 464 |
LXXXVII | 466 |
LXXXVIII | 483 |
LXXXIX | 487 |
XC | 500 |
XCI | 509 |
XCII | 510 |
XCIV | 511 |
XCV | 530 |
XCVI | 534 |
XCVII | 544 |
XCVIII | 545 |
XCIX | 552 |
C | 554 |
CI | 560 |
CII | 561 |
CIII | 565 |
CIV | 570 |
CV | 574 |
CVI | 584 |
CVII | 643 |
CVIII | 653 |
CIX | 676 |
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Popular passages
Page 68 - Nations and the principles of international law, the sovereign right to exploit their own resources pursuant to their own environmental and developmental policies, and the responsibility to ensure that activities within their jurisdiction or control do not cause damage to the environment of other States or of areas beyond the limits of national jurisdiction...
Page 61 - Convention, stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system. Such a level should be achieved within a time frame sufficient to allow ecosystems to adapt naturally to climate change, to ensure that food production is not threatened and to enable economic development to proceed in a sustainable manner.
Page 383 - A conciliation commission shall be created upon the request of one of the parties to the dispute. The commission shall be composed of an equal number of members appointed by each party concerned and a chairman chosen jointly by the members appointed by each party. The commission shall render a recommendatory award, which the parties shall consider in good faith.
Page 207 - ... the development and implementation of education and training programmes, including the strengthening of national institutions and the exchange or secondment of personnel to train...
Page 71 - The Parties should take precautionary measures to anticipate, prevent or minimize the causes of climate change and mitigate its adverse effects, where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty should not be used as a reason for postponing such measures...
Page 109 - Parties shall adopt national policies and take corresponding measures on the mitigation of climate change, by limiting its anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases and protecting and enhancing its greenhouse gas sinks and reservoirs. These policies and measures will demonstrate that developed countries are taking the lead in modifying longer-term trends in anthropogenic emissions consistent with the objective of the Convention, recognising that the return by the end of the present decade to earlier...
Page 16 - A treaty shall be interpreted in good faith in accordance with the ordinary meaning to be given to the terms of the treaty in their context and in the light of its object and purpose.
Page 304 - Cooperate in the promotion of effective modalities for the development, application and diffusion of, and take all practicable steps to promote, facilitate and finance, as appropriate...
Page 215 - Climate change' means a change of climate which is attributed directly or indirectly to human activity that alters the composition of the global atmosphere and which is in addition to natural climate variability observed over comparable time periods.