... “conceptual flip-side [
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] ” of the common concern of humankind concept. The UNFCCC does not elaborate common concern concept in its text, yet it acknowledges the global character of the prob-lem that calls for global cooperation. Unlike the UNFCCC, the Paris Agreement recognises climate change as a common concern and further connects it with other climate change-related issues, such as human rights and sustainable development. Both legal instruments employ the CBDRRC princi-ple in order to maintain cooperation on climate change ...
... Change (UNFCCC) (1992) United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. UNFCCC, New York
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. Kirton J., Kokotsis E. The Global Governance of Climate Change: G7, G20, and UN Leadership. Routledge, 2016. 420 pp.
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. An Overview of International Climate Change Law, including the Paris Agreement //
Australian Law Journal
. Vol. 92, Part 10, pp. 756–765.
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. Climate Change and the UN Security Council.
Ed. by Shirley V. Scott, Charlotte Ku
. Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 2018. 272 pp.
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. The United Nations, Secretary-General ...
... the pre-industrial period, preferably at 1.5°C if at all possible. However, unlike the Kyoto Protocol that came before, the Paris Agreement does not impose obligations on all the signatory countries; rather, it merely determines the procedure for declaring ... ... of the iceberg is under water, the climate agenda is largely being implemented outside the UN negotiating processes. Global climate change governance is sometimes described as
polycentric
: not only are the thousands of national, subnational, regional,...
... and the academic communities continue to discuss the results of the Paris Conference. In particular, in August 2016, the British analytical center Chatham House published a report by John and Beth Mitchells “Paris Mismatches. The Impact of the COP21 Climate Change Negotiations on the Oil and Gas Industries.” This is not the first report dedicated to the consequences of
the Paris agreement
. The Mitchells’ report offers a well-structured explication of the consequences the agreement will have for two interconnected sectors which are of particular significance for Russia’s economy.
The leading countries’ goals
Paris ...
... to December 11 last year approved the new comprehensive agreement
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covering the time period up until 2020 in international cooperation on climate, it became clear that states have come to the understanding that urgent action is needed to reduce climate change-related threats and stabilize concentrations of greenhouse gases (GHG).
As the depositary of the Paris Agreement, the UN Secretary General invited the world leaders to the next April 22 opening ceremony for the signing of the Agreement at the United Nations headquarters in New York
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, with the signing period lasting until April 21, 2017. Symbolically,...
