Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: The role of compliance in an evolving climate regime
- Part I Context
- Part II The Kyoto compliance system: Features and experience
- Part III Compliance and the climate regime: Issues, options, and challenges
- 7 The role of non-state actors in climate compliance
- 8 Facilitation of compliance
- 9 Enforcing compliance in an evolving climate regime
- 10 Financial mechanisms under the climate regime
- 11 Post-2012 compliance and carbon markets
- 12 Compliance and the use of trade measures
- 13 ‘Comparability of efforts’ among developed country parties and the post-2012 compliance system
- 14 From the Kyoto compliance system to MRV
- 15 Compliance in transition countries
- 16 Developing countries and compliance in the climate regime
- 17 The role of dispute settlement in the climate regime
- 18 Depoliticizing compliance
- Part IV A look forward
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
12 - Compliance and the use of trade measures
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 January 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: The role of compliance in an evolving climate regime
- Part I Context
- Part II The Kyoto compliance system: Features and experience
- Part III Compliance and the climate regime: Issues, options, and challenges
- 7 The role of non-state actors in climate compliance
- 8 Facilitation of compliance
- 9 Enforcing compliance in an evolving climate regime
- 10 Financial mechanisms under the climate regime
- 11 Post-2012 compliance and carbon markets
- 12 Compliance and the use of trade measures
- 13 ‘Comparability of efforts’ among developed country parties and the post-2012 compliance system
- 14 From the Kyoto compliance system to MRV
- 15 Compliance in transition countries
- 16 Developing countries and compliance in the climate regime
- 17 The role of dispute settlement in the climate regime
- 18 Depoliticizing compliance
- Part IV A look forward
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
Summary
Introduction
The Cancun Agreements, adopted by the sixteenth Conference of the Parties (COP) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC) were initially welcomed as restoring faith in multilateralism. COP-16 is, however, more likely to be remembered as introducing a new form of multilateralism to climate policy, by marking the end of the Kyoto Protocol’s (KP) approach of internationally agreed, legally binding targets overseen by a global compliance mechanism.
The post-2012 climate regime promises, across a number of dimensions, to be far more ‘bottom-up’ in its construction. The developed country targets and the developing country nationally appropriate mitigation actions (NAMAs) that are at the core of the Cancun Agreements have been put forward by each party unilaterally, using only minimal agreed standards. As is described elsewhere in this volume, these undertakings, most frequently characterized as ‘pledges’, are not yet internationally legally binding, and the international processes parties have agreed for measuring, reporting, and verifying each other’s performance against these pledges do not, as of yet, lead to any binding consequences for non-compliance.
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- Promoting Compliance in an Evolving Climate Regime , pp. 262 - 285Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011
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