The reduction of GHG emissions is one of the most important policy objectives worldwide. Nonetheless, concrete and effective measures to reduce them are hardly implemented. One of the main reasons for this deadlock is the fear that unilateral actions will reduce a country’s competitiveness, and will benefit those countries where no GHG mitigation measures...
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Billets marqués ‘ Kyoto Protocol ’
Macroeconomic impacts of the EU 30% GHG mitigation target
The state of compliance in the Kyoto Protocol
The first Kyoto commitment period ends this year. The EU-15 is on track to meet its common target, thanks to Finland, Greece, Portugal, Ireland¸ France, Belgium, Sweden, the UK and Germany, who accomplished or surpassed their respective targets. Sweden was the best performing country within the EU-15 during 2008-2011...
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The evolution and governance architecture of the climate change regime
This book chapter provides an historical and legal introduction to the UN climate change regime
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Climate negotiations open a window
Key implications of the Durban Platform for enhanced action. A policy brief from Joseph E. Aldy and Robert N. Stavins
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The Durban platform negotiations: goals and options
This essay of Daniel Bodansky unpacks the elements of the Durban platform and analyzes the possible goals of the new round of negotiations. It then examines three possible models of how international law might address climate change...
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Kyoto and the COPs: lessons learned and looking ahead
This publication analyzing the major Conferences of the Parties with their main legal, structural, and policy responses to climate change. The near-disaster 2009 Conference of the Parties-15 in Copenhagen empirically demonstrated that the UN machinery is incapable of moving forward fast enough to produce a global climate deal. Moreover, international climate policy, as it...
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EU’s progress towards meeting its Kyoto Protocol target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions
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From global to polycentric climate governance
Following the lead of Elinor Ostrom, this paper offers an alternative theoretical framework for reconstructing global climate policy in accordance with the polycentric approach to governance pioneered in the early 1960s by Vincent Ostrom, Charles Tiebout, and Robert Warren
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Zero-Carbon Energy Kyoto 2010
Proceedings of the Second International Symposium of Global COE Program "Energy Science in the Age of Global Warming—Toward CO2 Zero-emission Energy System"
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W[h]ither the Kyoto Protocol? Durban and Beyond
This paper for the Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements analyzes the options going forward, including adoption of a legally-binding second commitment period, a "political" second commitment period, or no new commitment period.
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Exploring the Nature of Strategic Interactions in the Ratification Process of the Kyoto Protocol
Do countries interact when they decide to ratify the Kyoto protocol? What is the nature of these possible interactions? To answer these questions, the author provides a theoretical analysis based on the notions of strategic substitutability and strategic complementarity.
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