Negotiating climate change in the UN : same procedure as every year? Not quite!

• Published in: Carbon & Climate Law Review
• Main Authors: Bausch, Camilla, Mehling, Michael
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: International law; Carbon and Climate Law Review
• Online Access: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/64127/; https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/64127/1/Bausch_Mehling_CCLR_2017_Negotiating_climate_change_in_the_UN_same_procedures_as_every_year.pdf; https://doi.org/10.21552/cclr/2017/3/4

In 2007, Heads of State of eight major industrialised nations affirmed that the United Nations will remain ‘the appropriate forum for negotiating future global action on climate change.’ Within the U.N., however, a number of concurrent ‘tracks’ emerged for negotiations and discussions, accompanied by a certain degree of overlap and giving rise to questions on the mandate, scope, and limitations of each track as a pathway to a future climate regime. This article provides a retrospective on ten years of climate negotiations under the U.N., and traces important milestones and trends.