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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.
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Yamin (Univ. of Sussex, UK) and Depledge (Univ. of Cambridge, UK) 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. The volume consists of 19 chapters, and it also includes a wealth of information in figures, tables, and boxes about key elements in the climate regime process. There are three appendixes, an extensive 22-page bibliography, and a 23-page index. Appendix 2 contains an important summary, with color diagrams, of the emissions, targets, and projections for countries. Chapter 1 discusses the scope of the volume and reviews the legal foundations and rule creation. Chapter 2 considers the climate change problem and a history of the global concerns. Subsequent chapters include "Regime Participants" (chapter 3) "Mitigation Commitments" (chapter 5; "Compliance" (chapter 12), "The Negotiation Process" (chapter 14), "Administering the Regime" (chapter 16), and "Conclusions: Taking Stock and Moving Forward" (chapter 19). ^BSumming Up: Recommended. General readers; researchers and faculty; professionals. J. T. Andrews University of Colorado at Boulder
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 |
