July 2013
Intermediate to advanced
180 pages
6h 31m
English
Content preview from Post-2020 Climate Change Regime Formation
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An enormous gap
Greenhouse gas emissions are still out of control, despite the Climate Convention that entered into force in March 1994. The very essence of the Convention and its Kyoto Protocol is reducing emissions to safer levels. However, how to share the burden among countries (or rather, among signatory governments) has been a permanent impasse for achieving any significant progress in emissions reductions. So far binding commitments are hardly more than symbolic and apply to developed countries only.
Stabilizing atmospheric CO2 concentrations today would require reducing anthropogenic carbon emissions from the current ten billion tons per year (Global ...