Providing a detailed examination of climate negotiations records since the 1990s, this book shows that, in addition to agreeing on climate policy frameworks, the negotiations process is of crucial importance to success. Shedding light on the dynamics of international climate policymaking, its respective chapters explore key milestones such as the Kyoto Protocol, Marrakech Accords, Cancun Agreement and Doha Framework.
The report argues that international negotiations are vital for countries to build on national approaches and work together towards a low-carbon future…
The report examines options for building both flexibility and ambition into the new international climate change agreement due next year in Paris.
This paper looks at the relationship between the carbon market and a new climate change agreement, to be finalised in Paris in 2015…
This book examines the challenges of sustaining meaningful cooperation among countries striving to manage global climate change through international environmental agreements. Through the perspectives of leading international scholars from multiple disciplines, readers of the book will gain an understanding of how agreements are negotiated, the strength and weaknesses of previous climate agreements and how a more effective future climate agreement can be designed…
To-date, forest resource-based carbon accounting in land use, land use change and forestry (LULUCF) under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Kyoto Protocol (KP), European Union (EU) and national level emission reduction schemes considers only a fraction of its potential and fails to adequately mobilize the LULUCF sector for the successful stabilization of atmospheric greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations…
The paper considers opportunities for advancing the climate negotiations
Special issue of the Journal of Contemporary European Research
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…
This paper makes two points. First, we offer good reasons and ways to adapt international negotiations to allow for price-based commitments (…).Second, analyzing proposed climate commitments in terms of their implied economic stringency, as measured by the implied price on carbon necessary to achieve the targets, offers transparent and verifiable assurance of the comparability of effort across countries…
The Stockholm Environment Institute has published policy briefs in preparation for COP18 in Doha.
Dealing with reality / Liz Bossley. Journal of world energy law & business, online access 1 October 2012 http://jwelb.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2012/09/29/jwelb.jws022.full.pdf+html?ijkey=ni3zajZTi9z7c&keytype=ref&siteid=jwelb The Kyoto Protocol was intended to cut the greenhouse gas emissions of developed countries to 5 per cent less than they were in 1990, and this...
Key implications of the Durban Platform for enhanced action. A policy brief from Joseph E. Aldy and Robert N. Stavins
The book explain how climate change and sustainable development have increasingly become interlinked and how this leads to the following five challenges
Robert N. Stavins briefly reviews some key points from twenty years of history of international climate negotiations, from the Rio Earth Summit in 1992 to the Durban Climate Conference in 2011, to explain how the “Durban Platform for Enhanced Action” has opened an important window in climate talks.
New Economics Papers Energy Economics (REPEC)
