Post-Kyoto? Post-Bush? Toward an effective 'climate coalition of the willing'

Article Abstract:

Weak early compliance with the 1997 Kyoto Protocol's emissions reduction targets and the longer term impact of the US's defection reveal emerging problems for the Protocol's effectiveness and legitimacy in the early 21st century. It is argued that such problems could in part be addressed by shifting the emphasis of negotiations over the Protocol's second commitment period away from attempts to reengage the US and towards building a stronger 'culture of compliance' by expanding the Protocol's Annex B to include the emerging major emitters, namely China, India and Brazil.

Reports, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

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The role of forests in global climate change: Whence we come and where we go

Article Abstract:

A complete and fair post-Kyoto Protocol regime must expand existing regulations by creating a framework to encompass all land-use and forest-related changes in carbon stocks. A discussion on how an incentive system for the protection of forests can be included in a future climate regime considers different design choices is presented along with describing two approaches to reward developing countries that avoid further deforestation, namely, the 'compensated reduction of deforestation' approach and the Carbon Stock Approach.

Forest influences

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Climate change: an important foreign policy issue

Article Abstract:

International efforts to form an environmental policy, focusing on climate change, is discussed. The author, examining the events at The Hague and the failure of the Kyoto Protocol, argues the challenge of addressing environmental issues falls to the European Union, and maintains countries must decide to either address climate change globally or locally.

World, Political aspects, European Union, Environmental policy, Environmental protection, United Nations Conference on Climate Change, 1997

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