CIAO DATE: 08/2010
July 2010
Lowy Institute for International Policy
Copenhagen failed to produce an agreement on climate change commensurate with the scale of the problem, highlighting the fundamental weaknesses in the existing UN framework. Progress on a new agreement is agonisingly slow. Weightier commitments by the major emitters are necessary, but calls for ‘greater ambition' ignore the structural problems embedded in the institutions, processes and policy models of the UN climate regime.
Resource link: Confronting the Crisis of International Climate Policy [PDF] - 193K