Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: The role of compliance in an evolving climate regime
- Part I Context
- Part II The Kyoto compliance system: Features and experience
- Part III Compliance and the climate regime: Issues, options, and challenges
- 7 The role of non-state actors in climate compliance
- 8 Facilitation of compliance
- 9 Enforcing compliance in an evolving climate regime
- 10 Financial mechanisms under the climate regime
- 11 Post-2012 compliance and carbon markets
- 12 Compliance and the use of trade measures
- 13 ‘Comparability of efforts’ among developed country parties and the post-2012 compliance system
- 14 From the Kyoto compliance system to MRV
- 15 Compliance in transition countries
- 16 Developing countries and compliance in the climate regime
- 17 The role of dispute settlement in the climate regime
- 18 Depoliticizing compliance
- Part IV A look forward
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
11 - Post-2012 compliance and carbon markets
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 January 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: The role of compliance in an evolving climate regime
- Part I Context
- Part II The Kyoto compliance system: Features and experience
- Part III Compliance and the climate regime: Issues, options, and challenges
- 7 The role of non-state actors in climate compliance
- 8 Facilitation of compliance
- 9 Enforcing compliance in an evolving climate regime
- 10 Financial mechanisms under the climate regime
- 11 Post-2012 compliance and carbon markets
- 12 Compliance and the use of trade measures
- 13 ‘Comparability of efforts’ among developed country parties and the post-2012 compliance system
- 14 From the Kyoto compliance system to MRV
- 15 Compliance in transition countries
- 16 Developing countries and compliance in the climate regime
- 17 The role of dispute settlement in the climate regime
- 18 Depoliticizing compliance
- Part IV A look forward
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
Summary
Introduction
The Fourth Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Report made it very clear that current climate change trends have been human induced, and that serious efforts must be undertaken by the international community if we wish to avoid a global average temperature increase of more than 2°C from pre-industrial periods. This fact has now been acknowledged both in the Copenhagen Accord, and in the Cancun Agreements.
At this stage, what is needed goes beyond minor efforts from some key countries, but involves a drive from the entire international community towards a low carbon society. International emissions trading and offsets (the carbon market) have been identified by the Kyoto Protocol as part of this global effort and as key instruments to assist countries to comply with their quantified emission limitation and reduction objectives (QELROs). Against this background, this chapter addresses two core questions: (1) to what extent will a post-2012 agreement on climate change strengthen or weaken the linkage between compliance and the carbon market; and (2) to what extent can a post-2012 regime’s compliance mechanism secure improvements to the design of the carbon market?
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- Promoting Compliance in an Evolving Climate Regime , pp. 240 - 261Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011