COP 19 aimed to progress the negotiations towards a global climate change agreement, which the Parties are seeking to finalise by 2015 at COP 21 in Paris. The conference overran by one day, with a modest outcome. read more »
Private sector engagement, particularly in relation to public policy based action and strategy, has become a buzz word in most policy areas, but this is often … read more »
“Although some progress has been made at this summit, the actions that have been agreed are simply inadequate when compared with the scale and urgency of the risks that the world faces from rising levels of greenhouse gases, and the dangers of irreversible impacts if there is delay.” read more »
Afionis, Stavros. International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics. 14(1), 47-64.
Stavros Afionis, Lindsay Stringer. International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics. 14(1), 47-64.
Rietig, K. Environmental Policy and Governance 23(5): 297-310. DOI: 10.2002/eet.161
This briefing note summarises the report-writing process for the IPCC assessment reports, ahead of the launch of the IPCC’s fifth assessment report (AR5), which is released at the … read more »
Rei, F., Cunha, K. and Setzer, J. (2013). In: Brazilian Journal of Environmental Law, v. 71:265-286 (Portuguese).
This paper discusses the implications of climate change for official transfers from rich countries (the North) to poor countries (the South). The concern is no longer … read more »
Ecological regime shifts are rarely purely ecological. Not only is the regime shift frequently triggered by human activity, but the responses of relevant actors to ecological dynamics are often … read more »
