The Durban Platform and the Future of Climate Change Regime

UCL Energy Institute, 14 Upper Woburn Place
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Professor Lavanya Rajamani of the Centre for Policy Research New Delhi and Oxford University will present this talk on the following:

The Durban Climate Change Conference, held in December 2011, arrived at a set of historic decisions under the climate regime 36 hours after the scheduled end of the conference.The climate regime has been plagued in the last few years, in particular after the debacle at Copenhagen, by uncertainty and doubt. Doubt over its ability to meet climate goals, and uncertainty over its future, in particular that of the Kyoto Protocol, 1997.

At Durban, parties strengthened the climate regime with decisions to implement the Cancun Agreements, 2010, extend the beleaguered Kyoto Protocol, 1997, for a second commitment period, and launched a new process to negotiate a post-2020 climate regime. This new process, christened the Ad-Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action (ADP), is intended to craft the agreement that will govern, regulate and incentivize the next generation of climate actions.

This talk will seek to parse the text of the decision launching the ADP with a view to distilling the central premises of the negotiations for a post-2020 climate regime, as well as identifying the likely gaps it will have. This talk is based on an article that appears in the current issue of the ICLQ (L Rajamani, 'The Durban Platform for Enhanced Action And the Future of the Climate Regime', (2012) 61(2) Int’l & Comp. L. Qtrl’y 501-518).

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