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The Climate Regime in Evolution: The Disagreements that Survive the Cancun Agreements

Lavanya Rajamani

DOI https://doi.org/10.21552/CCLR/2011/2/180



This article analyzes the Copenhagen Accord, 2009, and the Cancun Agreements, 2010, focusing in particular on the emerging trends and surviving disagreements in the climate negotiations. This article argues that while the Cancun Agreements offer a firm indication of trends in the climate regime, they do not authoritatively settle the fundamental cleavages that exist in the negotiations: the fate of the Kyoto Protocol; the legal form and architecture of the future legal regime; and the nature and extent of differential treatment between developed and developing states. The Cancun Agreements, however, restored faith, after the failure of Copenhagen, in the multilateral process, and the international climate negotiations are set to continue into the foreseeable future. Whether these negotiations will yield anything other than incremental progress, while skilfully skirting the key issues, remains to be seen.

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