The international climate change regime : a guide to rules, institutions and procedures / Farhana Yamin and Joanna Depledge.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yamin, Farhana, author.

Depledge, Joanna, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (1992 May 9)--Protocols, etc. (1997 December 11).

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

Climatic changes--Government policy.

Climatic changes.

Global warming--Government policy.

Global warming.

Environmental management--International cooperation.

Environmental management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxx, 699 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Foreword / Joke Waller Hunter

Introduction

Overview

Regime participants

Objective and principles

Mitigation commitments

Flexibility mechanisms

Research, systematic observation, education, training and public awareness

Adaptation

Impacts of response measures

Finance, technology and capacity-building

Reporting and review

Compliance

Institutions

The negotiation process

Scientific and technical input

Administering the regime

Linkages

Evolution of the regime

Conclusions : taking stock and moving forward

List of parties, their groups and key statistics

Annex I Party fact sheets : emissions, targets and projections for Annex I Parties and groupings

Table of articles, issues and COP decisions.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9780511494659

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.