Water and soil, blood and oil demarcating the frontiers of Australia, Indonesia and Timor-Leste / David Dixon -- From laggards to leaders the evolving role of the private actors in the international climate regime / Charlotte Streck -- Shared responsibility or institutional accountability?...

The Paris Agreement broadens the international commitment to protect the climate under the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and its Kyoto Protocol. This commitment is largely represented through the Agreement’s requirement that both developed and developing...

Our paper aims at evaluating the provisions of the EU climate change and policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as well as articulating the EU’s position with regard to sustainable development. In particular, we analyse the provisions and the outcomes stemming from the UN Convention on...

Even though the Paris Agreement does not include any trade-related provisions, trade has the potential to play a major role in the implementation of the response measures enshrined by the Parties in their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), while creating opportunities for many countries...

This paper explores the different ways in which negotiators to three recent environmental instruments accounted for different national circumstances in formulating commitments and other aspects of cooperation in the instruments. The author finds that the negotiators of these instruments have...

Finance has been critical to the development of interest and momentum concerning the Paris Agreement, which emerged from COP21. However, a quick scan of the accord could lead many to derive a disappointing picture because of the absence of practical commitments to financial devices that can...

The Paris Agreement has achieved one of two key necessary conditions for ultimate success – a broad base of participation among the countries of the world. But another key necessary condition has yet to be achieved – adequate collective ambition of the individual nationally determined...

The Paris Agreement has achieved one of two key necessary conditions for ultimate success – a broad base of participation among the countries of the world. But another key necessary condition has yet to be achieved – adequate collective ambition of the individual nationally determined...

This study shows that achieving the climate change mitigation target of staying below 2°C temperature rise is possible technically - thanks to an acceleration of decarbonisation trends, an increased electrification of final demand and large changes in the primary energy mix that include a phase...