Implementation of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change

<p>In December 2015, 196 parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) adopted the Paris Agreement, seen as a decisive landmark for global action to stop human- induced climate change. The Paris Agreement will replace the 1997 Kyoto Protocol which expires in 2020, and it creates legally binding obligations on the parties, based on their own bottom-up voluntary commitments to implement Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). The codification of the climate change regime has advanced well, but the implementation of it remains uncertain.</p><p>This book focuses on the implementation prospects of the Agreement, which is a challenge for all and will require a fully comprehensive burden- sharing framework. Parties need to meet their own NDCs, but also to finance and transfer technology to others who do not have enough. How equity- based and facilitative the process will be, is of crucial importance. The volume examines a broad range of issues including the lessons that can be learnt from the implementation of previous environmental legal regimes, climate policies at national and sub-national levels and whether the implementation mechanisms in the Paris Agreement are likely to be sufficient.</p><p>Written by leading experts and practitioners, the book diagnoses the gaps and lays the ground for future exploration of implementation options. This collection will be of interest to policy-makers, academics, practitioners, students and researchers focusing on climate change governance.</p> <p>1: Implementation of International Environmental Agreements; 2: ‘Hard’ and ‘Soft’ Law on Climate Change: Comparing the 1997 Kyoto Protocol with the 2015 Paris Agreement; 3: A Comparative Architectural Analysis of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol and the 2015 Paris Agreement and other ways to counter Environmental ‘Ratification Fatigue’; 4: Promoting the Implementation of International Environmental Law: Mechanisms, Obligations and Indicators; 5: Strengthening compliance under the Convention on Biological Diversity: Comparing Follow-up and Review Systems with the Global Climate Regime; 6: Five Short Words and a Moral Reckoning: The Paris regime’s CMA-APA Equity Stocktake Process; 7: Equity in Global Stocktake; 8: Stakeholder Perceptions of the Implementation Capacity of the Climate Change Regime; 9: Technological Ethics, Faith and Climate Control: The Misleading Rhetoric Surrounding the Paris Agreement; 10: The Implementation of the Principle of Common but Differentiated Responsibilities within the Paris Agreement: A Governance Values Analysis<strong>; </strong>11: After Paris: Do We Need an International Agreement on Green Compulsory Licensing?; 12: Low Carbon Market Opportunities and a Brief Discussion on Lessons Learned from Adaptation Fund; 13: Understanding the Relationship between Global and National Climate Regimes and Local Realities in India; 14: Paris Agreement and Climate Change in India: To Be or Not To Be?; 15: USA and India on Climate Change: How the Tables Turned?; 16: Cities and Paris Agreement; 17: Beyond COP21: What Does Paris Agreement Mean for European Climate and Energy policy?; 18: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats To the Implementation Of The Paris Agreement In the Latin American Region;</p>