scholarly journals The Copenhagen Accord and the future of the international climate change regime

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesco Sindico
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Legal Regime ◽  
Copenhagen Accord ◽  
The Future ◽  
International Climate ◽  
Environmental Integrity ◽  
Two Parameters ◽  
Global Carbon ◽  
International Climate Change

This paper analyses the environmental integrity, the nature and the political relevance of the Copenhagen Accord. According to the first two parameters, the Copenhagen Accord is not satisfactory. From a political point of view the conclusion is slightly different, albeit not positive. This paper concludes arguing that after the Copenhagen Conference the future of the international climate change legal regime is likely to be more fragmented, the Accord being one further piece of the global carbon puzzle.

scholarly journals The Copenhagen Accord and the future of the international climate change regime

10.17345/1036 ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesco Sindico
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Legal Regime ◽  
Copenhagen Accord ◽  
The Future ◽  
International Climate ◽  
Environmental Integrity ◽  
Two Parameters ◽  
Global Carbon ◽  
International Climate Change

This paper analyses the environmental integrity, the nature and the political relevance of the Copenhagen Accord. According to the first two parameters, the Copenhagen Accord is not satisfactory. From a political point of view the conclusion is slightly different, albeit not positive. This paper concludes arguing that after the Copenhagen Conference the future of the international climate change legal regime is likely to be more fragmented, the Accord being one further piece of the global carbon puzzle.

scholarly journals International emissions policy and agriculture

2010 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Melville
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Negotiations ◽  
The Future ◽  
International Climate ◽  
International Climate Change

The Copenhagen climate conference is now history and there is presently some debate on what the conference achieved and what the events that occurred there will mean for the future of international climate change negotiations. 

Part II Individual Issues and Cross-Cutting Themes: Climate Change and Global Ocean Governance, 7 The Role of the International Climate Change Regime in Global Ocean Governance

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Freestone David
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Anthropogenic Impacts ◽  
Global Ocean ◽  
Legal Regime ◽  
Ocean Governance ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
The World ◽  
International Climate ◽  
International Climate Change

This chapter examines the role of the international climate change regime in global ocean governance, with emphasis on the cross-cutting set of global ocean governance issues arising from human-induced climate change. It first provides an overview of the international legal regime governing climate change before discussing the two major anthropogenic impacts on the oceans, namely: warming/acidification and sea level rise. It then considers other governance issues such as greenhouse gas emissions from shipping, geoengineering, and blue carbon, suggesting that addressing these issues are beyond the competence of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The chapter stresses the need for greater, deeper and ultimately better co-ordinated leadership on the most significant global environmental challenge facing the world today.

III. THE MAKING AND UNMAKING OF THE COPENHAGEN ACCORD

2010 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 824-843 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lavanya Rajamani
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Kyoto Protocol ◽  
Secretary General ◽  
Differential Treatment ◽  
Legal Regime ◽  
Legal Form ◽  
Copenhagen Accord ◽  
The Future

The last two years have witnessed a flurry of diplomatic activity on climate change. In addition to the 16 weeks of scheduled inter-governmental negotiations under the auspices of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC), meetings, many at a Ministerial level, were convened by the G-8, the Major Economies Forum, the UN Secretary General, and Denmark, the host of the 15th Conference of Parties (COP-15) to the FCCC. Notwithstanding regular and intense engagement at the highest-level many fundamental disagreements remained in the lead up to COP-15, including on the future (or lack thereof) of the Kyoto Protocol, the legal form and architecture of the future legal regime, and the nature and extent of differential treatment between developed and developing countries.

Doha and Warsaw

Climate Law ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 5-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Bothe
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Policy ◽  
Change Policy ◽  
The Future ◽  
International Climate ◽  
New Generation ◽  
International Climate Change

This article addresses the legal instruments of international climate change policy as they have been reshaped by the Doha conference in 2012, thereafter modestly developed by the Warsaw conference in 2013, trying to prepare a new generation of legal instruments to govern the fight against climate change in the future.

scholarly journals The road to Durban and beyond: the progress of international climate change negotiations

2012 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrian Macey
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Climate Change Negotiations ◽  
United Nations Framework Convention ◽  
The Road ◽  
The Future ◽  
Executive Secretary ◽  
History Of ◽  
International Climate ◽  
International Climate Change

Following a familiar pattern of UN climate change negotiations, the 2011 Durban conference of the parties (COP17) was concluded by sleep-deprived delegates well after its scheduled end, after crises and last-minute drama. Just what it might mean for the future was not immediately obvious to observers. Early reactions ranged from seeing yet another failure by governments to grasp the seriousness and urgency of climate change – ‘a disaster for us all’ – to much more positive assessments. The executive secretary of the UNFCCC (the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change), Christiana Figueres, described Durban as ‘without doubt … the most encompassing and furthest reaching conference in the history of the climate change negotiations’. 

Imagining Unimaginable Climate Futures in International Climate Change Law

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacqueline Peel
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Alternative Conceptions ◽  
Climate Engineering ◽  
The Future ◽  
Rules And Principles ◽  
International Climate ◽  
Radical Technologies ◽  
International Climate Change

Gradually, alternative conceptions of the future emerged, which centered on questions of adaptation and loss and damages. International climate law followed suit, which resulted in the development of different sets of rules and principles. The focus shifted towards the broader causes of climate change and considerations of equity. Yet, these shifts could not do away with dystopian imageries of the future, including fears that climate change presents existential threats to human life as we know it. This has led to the consideration of more radical technologies such as climate engineering, technologies that give rise to new imageries of the future, and calls for their legal regulation.

A Conversation about Climate Change Law and the ‘International Community’

Climate Law ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 229-243
Author(s):  
Cinnamon P. Carlarne ◽  
Mohamed S. Helal
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
International Cooperation ◽  
International Community ◽  
Collective Action Problem ◽  
Address Climate Change ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Face ◽  
International Climate ◽  
International Climate Change

As international climate change law approaches its third decade of existence, the field continues to evolve and prove resilient in the face of daunting political, technical, and economic challenges. Moving forward with efforts to structure effective responses to climate change requires scholars and policymakers to engage with the reality that international cooperation on climate change continues to lag. Early efforts to address climate change presumed the existence of an international community that would facilitate the level of cooperation needed to structure effective solutions to a massive and complex collective-action problem. This vision of the international community, however, is an illusion the reliance on which may hamper efforts to think critically about how to address the causes and consequences of climate change. Here, we deconstruct the idea of a cooperative, international community as an operative basis for international climate change law, with the hope of facilitating increasingly open conversation around effective and sustainable modes of cooperation in the future.

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