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The Issues that Never Die journal article free

Daniel Bodansky, Lavanya Rajamani

Carbon & Climate Law Review, Volume 12 (2018), Issue 3, Page 184 - 190

This article analyses three overarching issues that have bedevilled the climate negotiations right from the start and options for addressing them in the ongoing Paris Agreement Work Programme negotiations. These issues are: (1) How legally binding should the United Nations (UN) climate change regime be? (2) How prescriptive should the UN climate change regime be, and how much should it leave to national discretion? (3) To what extent should the rules of the UN climate change regime be common or differentiated and, if the latter, on what basis and how?

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

Lavanya Rajamani

Carbon & Climate Law Review, Volume 5 (2011), Issue 2, Page 136 - 146

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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