July 2013
Intermediate to advanced
180 pages
6h 31m
English
Content preview from Post-2020 Climate Change Regime Formation
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Designing an effective climate change regime for the post-2020 period warrants a sober assessment of the current regime to flesh out the important issues that need to be addressed. As the chapters in this volume demonstrate, the existing climate change regime has fallen short on several fronts.
First, the way countries are grouped into Annex I and non-Annex I countries has engendered a sense of injustice over how the emissions burden is shared. Many Annex I Parties contend that the current system has failed to take into account the recent changes in the economic landscape. They argue that since some developing countries, notably China and India, emit more than some of their developed counterparts—if not based on legally ...