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Étiqueté : climate regime

Identifying options for a new international climate regime Arising from the Durban Platform for enhanced action

This Issue Brief  examines the degree to which the agreement reflects “top-down” direction to national governments, “bottom-up” policy initiatives from national governments—or both; and how the new agreement might enable increasing ambition over time with regard to reducing greenhouse-gas emissions, on the part of national governments.

Post-2020 climate change regime formation

The fate of the climate change regime hangs in the balance as the UN-led negotiations try to forge a new international strategy for the post-2020 period. Since 1992, the UNFCCC and its Kyoto Protocol has been the primary legal instrument to respond to the climate challenge. However, the intergovernmental process has been riddled with problems that have rendered it ineffective…