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.
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Assesses the existing compliance system of the UN climate regime and examines the key challenges for the emerging post-2012 system.
About the Author
Jutta Brunnée is Professor of Law and Metcalf Chair in Environmental Law at the University of Toronto. As co-author of Legitimacy and Legality in International Law: An International Account, she received the American Society of International Law’s 2011 Certificate of Merit for a Pre-eminent Contribution to Creative Scholarship in International Law.
Meinhard Doelle is an Associate Professor at Dalhousie University’s Schulich School of Law, where he also serves as the Associate Director of the Marine and Environmental Law Institute. His teaching and research interests include climate change and environmental law. He is the author of a number of books, including From Hot Air to Action: Climate Change, Compliance and the Future of International Environmental Law. He also serves on the federal provincial environmental assessment panel for the Lower Churchill hydroelectric project in Labrador, Canada.
Lavanya Rajamani is a Professor at the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, where she writes, teaches and advises on international environmental law, in particular international climate change law and policy. She is also the Rapporteur for the International Law Association’s Committee on Legal Principles Relating to Climate Change.
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