In December 2011, the Canadian government decided to officially withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol on climate change. While this decision has been expected by some negotiators and policy-makers, it poses an interesting question for political-economic theories of international cooperation: Why do...

This Article challenges the existing paradigm in international law that frames global efforts to address climate change as a problem of and for international environmental law. The most recent climate reports tell us that warming is unequivocal and that we are already experiencing the impacts of...

We report numerical simulation results using a multiyear global multi country modeling framework which we use to assess the impacts of alternative emissions cuts which will likely come under consideration for the process to follow the December 2009 UNFCCC negotiation in Copenhagen. The...