The International Climate Change Regime: A Guide to Rules, Institutions and Procedures

by Farhana Yamin, Joanna Depledge

Overview

Aimed at the increasing number of policy-makers, stakeholders, researchers, and other professionals working on climate change, this volume presents a detailed description and analysis of the international regime established in 1992 to combat the threat of global climate change. It provides a comprehensive accessible guide to a high-profile area of international law and politics, covering not only the obligations and rights of countries, but ongoing climate negotiations as well.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521600590
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	12/09/2004
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	730
Product dimensions:	6.93(w) x 9.69(h) x 1.42(d)

About the Author

Fellow, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex.

Sutasoma Research Fellow, Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge.

Table of 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.

Editorial Reviews

"Yamin and Depledge offer this exhaustive treatment of the guides to climate change regime in relationship to the Kyoto protocol. Thus, it is a legal treatise on the rights and obligations of nations. The authors have considerable expertise in the arenas of global environmental issues and the climate change regime process." CHOICE

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