by Hermann E. Ott:
The adoption of the Marrakesh Accords mark for the author of this brief and comprehensive overview paper the end of an era in climate negotiations: "the end of the legislative phase and the beginning of a phase of implementation."
The summary describes the constellation in Bonn and Marrakesh that lead to the "biggest victories for international environmental policy ever" and lists more detailed the issues that were negotiated here: Kyoto Mechanisms, compliance, land-use, land-use change and forestry (LULUCF) and developing countries.
Other issues commented are the considerable scaling down of the reduction effects and the qualitative improvement and growing complexity of the legal regime.
If ratification is reached in the course of this year and the Protocol enters into force, the implementation phase will be firmly established and Marrakesh might advance to be the symbol for sucessful future multilateral diplomacy.
http://www.wupperinst.org/download/Ott-after-marrakesh.pdf
The adoption of the Marrakesh Accords mark for the author of this brief and comprehensive overview paper the end of an era in climate negotiations: "the end of the legislative phase and the beginning of a phase of implementation."
The summary describes the constellation in Bonn and Marrakesh that lead to the "biggest victories for international environmental policy ever" and lists more detailed the issues that were negotiated here: Kyoto Mechanisms, compliance, land-use, land-use change and forestry (LULUCF) and developing countries.
Other issues commented are the considerable scaling down of the reduction effects and the qualitative improvement and growing complexity of the legal regime.
If ratification is reached in the course of this year and the Protocol enters into force, the implementation phase will be firmly established and Marrakesh might advance to be the symbol for sucessful future multilateral diplomacy.
http://www.wupperinst.org/download/Ott-after-marrakesh.pdf