The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has been an example of an effective science-policy interface in international environmental affairs. For its efforts “to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change and to lay the foundations for the measures...

The UN meeting in Paris resulting in a new treaty on climate change has been described as a major success in multilateral processes to address global challenges. Prior to the meeting, there were fair concerns as to the fate of the negotiations not least because of serious disagreements about...

Being one of the largest emitters of greenhouse gases and having an enormous carbon storage capacity in its forests, Russia plays a significant role in addressing global climate change. Yet, for a long time, its domestic climate policy remained under-developed and lagged behind other countries....

In this paper, we first show that the framework for climate finance under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has been controversial, fragmented and insufficient to meet the growing financing needs of developing countries for adaptation and mitigation. We then...