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When One Treaty Is Not Enough: Death, Dying, And Institutional Re-Birth For The United Nations Framework Convention On Climate Change, Cinnamon P. Carlarne Mar 2012

When One Treaty Is Not Enough: Death, Dying, And Institutional Re-Birth For The United Nations Framework Convention On Climate Change, Cinnamon P. Carlarne

Cinnamon P Carlarne

On the twentieth anniversary of the negotiation of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the fifteenth anniversary of the negotiation of the Kyoto Protocol to the UNFCCC, it is time for the global community to reflect on the future of our system of global climate governance.

This article argues that the valiant efforts of the global community to negotiate a post-Kyoto treaty system have arrived at a crossroads and that instead of focusing on finding the single “right” pathway forward, there is a need to pursue multiple pathways. The conventional wisdom that we need one, consensus-based, …