RT Generic
T1 Building the Climate Change Regime: Survey and Analysis of Approaches - Working Paper
A1 United Nations Environment Programme, 
A1 World Resources Institute, 
A2 Moncel, Remi
A2 Joffe, Paul
A2 McCall, Kevin
A2 Levin, Kelly
K1 climate change
K1 Mitigation
SN 978-92-807-3224-5
YR 2011
FD 2011
LK https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/32259
UL https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/32259
NO The purpose of this paper is to help climate change negotiators, other government officials, international institutions, and civil society experts as they jointly work to build the post-2012 international climate regime. We define the climate regime as the set of international, national and sub-national institutions and actors involved in addressing climate change. We seek to identify concrete pathways for building a regime capable of delivering a level of action consistent with the objective of the Convention. We do so by surveying and analyzing the academic literature as well as proposals by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and governments. We group proposals according to the key issue they tackle in the design of the regime and the “approach” they take. It is important to note that all approaches are meant to be complementary rather than mutually exclusive. While we do not make recommendations about which approach to adopt, we do assess each approach against three criteria: adequacy, equity, and implementation.
DS UN Environment Document Repository
RD Sep 18, 2026