Mutual Gains Approach to a Successful Climate Treaty: The Role of Universal Access to Clean Energy Services, Climate Policy 12(4): 505- 520 (2012) (original) (raw)

The Paris Agreement on Climate Change: Background, Analysis and Implications

Abstract: This paper pre­sents a crit­i­cal analy­sis of the Paris Agree­ment on Cli­mate Change, agreed upon by more than 180 coun­tries at the Twenty-First Con­fer­ence of Par­ties (COP 21) of the United Na­tions Frame­work Con­ven­tion on Cli­mate Change (UN­FCCC). The ar­ti­cle traces the de­vel­op­ment of the major is­sues and points of dis­agree­ment in cli­mate ne­go­ti­a­tions from the Copen­hagen sum­mit of 2009 to COP 21 at Paris. The paper ar­gues that the out­comes of COP 21 fell con­spic­u­ously short of the world’s re­quire­ments in terms of cli­mate sci­ence and eq­uity among coun­tries. The paper ar­gues for car­bon bud­gets and, in that con­text, fur­ther ar­gues that the Paris Con­fer­ence has set goals that are at odds with the fea­si­bil­ity of such goals as in­di­cated in the Fifth As­sess­ment Re­port (AR5) of the In­ter­gov­ern­men­tal Panel on Cli­mate Change (IPCC). In gen­eral, the Paris Agree­ment per­pet­u­ates the low lev­els of cli­mate ac­tion thus far un­der­taken by the de­vel­oped na­tions while of­fer­ing lit­tle con­crete as­sis­tance to the less-de­vel­oped na­tions. The over­all re­sult of the agree­ment is likely to be, for the peo­ple of the less-de­vel­oped na­tions, greater dan­ger for those vul­ner­a­ble to the im­pact of cli­mate change and greater dif­fi­culty in guar­an­tee­ing the en­ergy basis of their fu­ture de­vel­op­ment. http://www.ras.org.in/the\_paris\_agreement\_on\_climate\_change

Negotiating an Intractable Climate Deal: The Kyoto Process and Beyond

Jadavpur Journal of International Relations, 2013

Climate change, commonly known as global warming, has threatened the very survival of the planet earth. Being a global problem it requires global actions but international actions to combat the climate cataclysm have been largely unsuccessful due to countries’ self-interested behavior. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Kyoto Protocol itself have tried to control emission of heat-trapping gases but failed due to incomplete participation. Such grim situation is also evident in other landmark climate summits where the rift between developed North and impoverished South and their bargaining over burden-sharing responsibility for climate change have contributed to the inefficacy of any effort to reduce emission. However, now the clash of interest is not only limited to developed and developing worlds, there are other shades of conflict and signs of political regrouping. This article will briefly narrate the landmark climate conferences, held under...

International negotiations and agreements on climate change

DOCUMENTOS DE POLÍTICA PARA EL DESARROLLO SOSTENIBLE , 2023

This working paper describes the international negotiations and agreements on climate change, emphasizing the repercussions for countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. The paper analyzes the political economy of international climate change negotiations, with emphasis on the perspectives of countries in this region. It offers an overview of the historical and recent negotiations and agreements; explains the relevance of key biodiversity agreements for climate change; explores the institutional challenges that parties face in implementing their domestic mitigation plans (NDCs: nationally determined contributions); and discusses the commercial aspects of climate change agreements (including carbon trading, border carbon adjustment, carbon clubs, low-carbon product requirements, green bonds, and carbon offset markets).