Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: The role of compliance in an evolving climate regime
- Part I Context
- 1 The emerging post-Cancun climate regime
- 2 Promoting compliance with multilateral environmental agreements
- 3 Compliance regimes in multilateral environmental agreements
- Part II The Kyoto compliance system: Features and experience
- Part III Compliance and the climate regime: Issues, options, and challenges
- Part IV A look forward
- Bibliography
- Index
3 - Compliance regimes in multilateral environmental agreements
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
- 1 The emerging post-Cancun climate regime
- 2 Promoting compliance with multilateral environmental agreements
- 3 Compliance regimes in multilateral environmental agreements
- Part II The Kyoto compliance system: Features and experience
- Part III Compliance and the climate regime: Issues, options, and challenges
- Part IV A look forward
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Introduction
Following the adoption of a ground-breaking compliance mechanism under the Montreal Protocol, there has been a rapid development of compliance procedures and mechanisms (CPMs) in multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs) that span environmental issues as diverse as climate change, genetically modified organisms, and hazardous waste.
One of the most sophisticated responses to compliance issues was the adoption of the compliance mechanism under the Kyoto Protocol. As negotiations on future related processes under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC) and its Kyoto Protocol progress, the issue of compliance will once again come to the fore. To provide a context, this chapter sets out an overview of existing CPMs in MEAs. First, the chapter will give a brief historical overview of the development of CPMs in MEAs. It will then examine the relationship between some of the key substantive obligations in MEAs and their CPM and then provide a brief comparative analysis of the main elements of the existing mechanisms, noting some of the operational challenges faced.
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- Promoting Compliance in an Evolving Climate Regime , pp. 55 - 74Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011