Post-2020 Climate Change Regime Formation

7  Moving forward in the climate change policies and practices

Wan Portia Hamzah

Introduction

Shaping the climate change regime has been fraught with challenges. While the science of climate change¹ has shown considerable progress, the politics surrounding the multilateral process of negotiations have faltered. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC),² the international regime for global action to address climate change, emerged some twenty years ago in 1992 during the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development or Rio Earth Summit. Central to the long-standing impasse in the climate change negotiations is the principle of “common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities (CBDR).” ...