United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Handbook

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Handbook
Author: United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
Publisher:
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2006
Genre: Climatic changes
ISBN: 9789292190316

This handbook provides an overview of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change as of August 2006. It focuses on the institutional framework of the Convention and the actions taken by the Conference of the Parties to the Convention.

Climate Change Finance and International Law

Climate Change Finance and International Law
Author: Alexander Zahar
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 187
Release: 2016-12-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1134617569

Since 2010, a significant quantity of international climate change finance has begun to reach developing countries. However, the transfer of finance under the international climate change regime – the legal and ethical obligations that underpin it, the constraints on its use, its intended outcomes, and its successes, failures, and future potential – constitutes a poorly understood topic. Climate Change Finance and International Law fills this gap in the legal scholarship. The book analyses the legal obligations of developed countries to financially support qualifying developing countries to pursue globally significant mitigation and adaptation outcomes, as well as the obligations of the latter under the international regime of financial support. Through case studies of climate finance mechanisms and a multitude of other sources, this book delivers a rich legal and empirical understanding of the implementation of states’ climate finance obligations to date. The book will be of interest to scholars and students of international law and policy, international relations, and the maturing field of climate change law.

Justice in Funding Adaptation under the International Climate Change Regime

Justice in Funding Adaptation under the International Climate Change Regime
Author: Marco Grasso
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 191
Release: 2009-11-28
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9048134390

Covering the ethical dimensions of international-level adaptation funding, a subject of growing interest in the climate change debate, this book provides a theoretical analysis of the ethical foundations of the UNFCCC regime on adaptation funding, one that culminates in the definition of a framework of justice. The text features an interpretative analysis of the ethical contents of the UNFCCC funding architecture by applying the framework of justice proposed to different areas of empirical investigation. The book offers scholars working on climate change, international relations, and environmental politics an analysis characterized by both theoretical soundness and empirical richness. The comprehensiveness of the book’s approach should make it possible to plan and implement international adaptation funding more effectively, and eventually to define more just funding policies and practices.

The Global Environment Facility from Rio to New Delhi

The Global Environment Facility from Rio to New Delhi
Author: Sheldon Cohen
Publisher: World Conservation Union
Total Pages: 64
Release: 1997-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 2831704138

This new and user-friendly edition provides key information for the international NGO community on general policy and advocacy issues related to the GEF. Given the complexity of the GEF, the guide gives a simple and concise overview of the GEF, areas for NGO involvement, and financial modalities. A co-publication of IUCN, Biodiversity Action Network (BIONET) and Climate Network, Europe.

Improving Compliance with International Environmental Law

Improving Compliance with International Environmental Law
Author: Jacob Werksman
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2014-01-14
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1134170548

Measures for regulating the behaviour of nation states in relation to the global environment have increasingly taken the form of international treaties and conventions. Many have argued that this has proved to be an ineffective way of halting unsustainable development, for the provisions of these agreements are either too weak or are flouted regularly by the parties concerned. This volume seeks to address the crucial question of how compliance with these agreements could be encouraged effectively without damaging the fragile political consensus that is emerging on environmental issues. With extensive use of case studies, Improving Compliance will make stimulating reading for all students and researchers working in this area, as well as for anyone concerned about the effectiveness of international environmental measures.