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Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University

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2016

Climate Negotiations

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The Paris Agreement: Historic Breakthrough Or High Stakes Experiment?, Meinhard Doelle Jan 2016

The Paris Agreement: Historic Breakthrough Or High Stakes Experiment?, Meinhard Doelle

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This article offers an overview of the two key outcomes of the 2015 Paris climate negotiations, the Paris COP decision, and the Paris Agreement. They chart a new course for the UN climate regime that started in earnest in Copenhagen in 2009. The Paris Agreement represents a course away from the top down approach and rigid differentiation among parties reflected in the Kyoto Protocol, toward a bottom up and flexible approach focused on collective long term goals and principles. It represents an approach to reaching these long term goals that is focused on self differentiation, support, transparency and review. The …


Loss And Damage In The Un Climate Regime: Prospects For Paris, Meinhard Doelle Jan 2016

Loss And Damage In The Un Climate Regime: Prospects For Paris, Meinhard Doelle

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This paper provides an overview of the Warsaw Mechanism on Loss and Damage and the treatment of the issue under the UNFCCC up to COP 20 in Lima, Peru. The gradual emergence of the issue in the climate negotiations is tracked, leading to the creation of the Warsaw Loss and Damage Mechanism in 2013. The Chapter considers the current state of the issue in the regime, and the prospects for loss and damage in the post 2020 climate regime to be negotiated in Paris in December, 2015.