Promoting Compliance in an Evolving Climate Regime

by Edited by Jutta Brunnée , Meinhard Doelle , Lavanya Rajamani

• ISBN13: 9780521199483
• ISBN10: 0521199484
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-01-16
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Summary

As the contours of a post-2012 climate regime begin to emerge, compliance issues will require increasing attention. This volume considers the questions that the trends in the climate negotiations raise for the regime's compliance system. It reviews the main features of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and its Kyoto Protocol, canvasses the literature on compliance theory and examines the broader experience with compliance mechanisms in other international environmental regimes. Against this backdrop, contributors examine the central elements of the existing compliance system, the practice of the Kyoto compliance procedure to date and the main compliance challenges encountered by key groups of states such as OECD countries, economies in transition and developing countries. These assessments anchor examinations of the strengths and weaknesses of the existing compliance tools and of the emerging, decentralized, 'bottom-up' approach introduced by the 2009 Copenhagen Accord and pursued by the 2010 Cancun Agreements.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Context:

The emerging post-Cancun climate regime

Promoting compliance with MEAs

Compliance regimes in multilateral environmental agreements

The Kyoto Compliance System - Features and Experience:

Key features of the Kyoto protocol's compliance system

Experience with the facilitative and enforcement branches of the Kyoto compliance system

Experiences with Articles 5, 7 and 8 defining the monitoring, reporting and verification system under the Kyoto protocol

Compliance and the Climate Change Regime - Issues, Options and Challenges:

The role of non-state actors in climate compliance

Facilitation of compliance

Enforcing compliance in an evolving climate regime

Financial mechanisms under the climate change regime

Post-2012 compliance and carbon markets

Compliance and the use of trade measures

Comparability of efforts among developed country parties and the post-2012 compliance system

From the Kyoto protocol compliance system to MRVs: what is at stake for the European Union?

Compliance in transition countries

The KPS and developing countries and compliance in the climate regime

The role of dispute settlement in the climate change regime

Depoliticizing compliance

A Look Forward:

Conclusion

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