Climate policy post-2012 - a roadmap : the global governance of climate change ; a discussion paper for the 2007 Tällberg Forum (original) (raw)

The Fight Against Global Warming: Progress Made and Priorities for a Successor to the Kyoto Protocol

Revue juridique Thémis, 2012

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The contribution of developing countries in the global effort to tackle climate change : analysis of the transition from the Kyoto protocol to the Paris agreement

2016

The urgency to reduce current greenhouse gases emissions from both developing and developed country parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to stabilise the global temperature increase to 2 degrees Celsius or well below at the end of the present century has led the international climate change diplomacy to adopt the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change in replacement to the Kyoto Protocol after it expires in 2020. Although substantially nuanced in its approach, the Paris Agreement represents as a new climate change treaty, a significant regime shift for developing countries, because it puts them under a legally binding obligation to undertake emission mitigation activities, conversely to the Kyoto Protocol which left them free from any obligation. This is because the objective of stabilising the global temperature increase at 2 degrees Celsius as said above requires considerable mitigation efforts from all countries, urged to undertake a transition tow...

International Approaches to Global Climate Change

2000

It also discusses issues of compliance with an international agreement to reduce emissions, actions states can take in the absence of international agreement, and contingency actions that might be considered if the problem proves to be more serious than now seems to be the case.

Cooperation to Reduce Developing Country Emissions

Climate Change Economics, 2012

Without effective developing country (DC) participation in climate mitigation, it will be impossible to meet global concentration and climate change targets. However, DCS are unwilling and, in many cases, unable to bear the mitigation cost alone. They need huge transfers of resources — financial, knowledge, technology and capability — from industrialized countries (ICs). In this paper, we evaluate instruments that can induce such resource transfers, including tradable credits, mitigation funds and results-based agreements. We identify key constraints that affect the efficiency and political potential of different instruments, including two-sided private information leading to adverse selection; moral hazard and challenging negotiations; incomplete contracts leading to under-investment; and high levels of uncertainty about emissions paths and mitigation potential. We consider evidence on the poor performance of current approaches to funding DC mitigation — primarily purchasing offset...