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Climate Governance: The Conferences of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC): COP 1 to COP 31: Clima

Climate Governance: The Conferences of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC): COP 1 to COP 31: Clima

Meper, Ricardo

Paperback

General LawGeneral Science

ISBN13: 9798171293338
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 2 2026
Pages: 518
Weight: 1.51
Height: 1.04 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What have more than three decades of United Nations climate negotiations achieved-and why is the world still far off course?
Climate Governance is a complete history and critical analysis of the Conferences of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). From the Berlin Mandate at COP1 to the implementation challenges confronting the Paris Agreement, Ricardo Meper traces how international climate law, diplomacy, science, finance, and geopolitics have shaped the global response to climate change. The book follows the evolution of the climate regime through the Kyoto Protocol, the Bali Road Map, the Copenhagen breakdown, the Durban Platform, the Paris Agreement at COP21, the Glasgow Climate Pact, the Loss and Damage Fund, the first Global Stocktake at COP28 in Dubai, the new climate finance goal adopted at COP29 in Baku, and the implementation agenda advanced at COP30 in Belém. It also offers a forward-looking assessment of COP31 in Antalya and develops alternative governance pathways toward 2030, 2035, and 2050. More than a chronology of international conferences, Climate Governance explains how the COP system actually works. It reveals how negotiating blocs build coalitions, how consensus shapes outcomes, how treaty obligations differ from political declarations, and why carefully negotiated language can determine the ambition-or weakness-of global commitments. Readers will gain a clear understanding of mitigation, climate adaptation, climate finance, loss and damage, nationally determined contributions (NDCs), carbon markets under Article 6, transparency rules, technology transfer, the Global Stocktake, fossil-fuel transition, renewable energy, net-zero targets, greenhouse gas emissions, climate justice, sustainable development, and common but differentiated responsibilities. The analysis connects environmental law with international relations, political economy, energy policy, public finance, human rights, and development. It confronts the central contradictions of climate policy: expanding clean energy while fossil-fuel production continues; announcing climate finance while access remains slow and unequal; adopting net-zero targets without credible implementation plans; and building increasingly sophisticated institutions while emissions, climate risks, and adaptation gaps continue to grow.

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