Subjects:

Environmental Law

Contents:

Foreword

Preface and acknowledgments

1 Introduction

2 Overview

3 Regime participants

4 Objective and principles

5 Mitigation commitments

6 Flexibility mechanisms

7 Research, systematic observation, education and public awareness

8 Adaptation

9 Impacts of response measures

10 Finance, technology and capacity-building

11 Reporting and review

12 Compliance

13 Institutions

14 The negotiation process

15 Scientific and technical input

16 Administering the regime

17 Linkages

18 Evolution of the regime

19 Conclusion: taking stock and moving forward

Appendix I: List of parties, their groups and key statistics

Appendix II: Annex 1 - parties' emissions and projections

Appendix III: Tables of articles, COP decisions and issues

Bibliography.

This book presents a comprehensive, authoritative and independent account of the rules, institutions and procedures governing the international climate change regime. Its detailed yet user-friendly description and analysis covers the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Kyoto Protocol, and all decisions taken by the Conference of the Parties up to 2003, including the landmark Marrakesh Accords. Mitigation commitments, adaptation, the flexibility mechanisms, reporting and review, compliance, education and public awareness, technology transfer, financial assistance and climate research are just some of the areas that are reviewed.

The book also explains how the regime works, including a discussion of its political coalitions, institutional structure, negotiation process, administrative base, and linkages with other international regimes. In short, this book is the only current work that covers all areas of the climate change regime in such depth, yet in such a uniquely accessible and objective way.