Signature Topics - Climate Change

Climate Change and the International Maritime Organization: Another Breakthrough at the Marine Environment Protection Committee?

Acknowledging the global and complex nature of shipping activities, the Kyoto Protocol, Article 2(2) entrusts the reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from marine bunker fuels to the International Maritime Organization (IMO).[i] Since 1997, the IMO Marine Environmental Protection Committee (MEPC) has been actively engaged in discussions concerning the reduction of GHG emissions from ships and the elaboration of a legal framework for energy efficiency in the shipping industry as a means of tackling climate change.

Topic: 
Topic 1
Volume: 
17
Issue: 
24
Author: 
Sophia Kopela
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Environment
International Organizations
Law of the Sea and Maritime Boundaries
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Regulating CO2 Emissions from Aviation in the EU

Introduction

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Topic 1
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16
Issue: 
27
Author: 
Joshua Meltzer
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Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

International Civil Aviation Organization

World Trade Organization

Court of Justice of the European Union

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Development
Energy and Natural Resources
Environment
Health
International Courts and Tribunals
International Economic Law
International Organizations
Science and Technology
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Trade and Investment
Transportation

The Cancún Climate Conference

I. Introduction

The United Nations Climate Change Conference, held from November 29 to December 11, 2010, in Cancún, Mexico, relaunched the United Nation's multilateral facilitation role. Delegates agreed to aspects of a global framework to help developing countries curb their carbon output and cope with the effects of climate change, but they postponed the harder question of precisely how industrialized and major emerging economies will share the task of making deeper greenhouse-gas emission cuts.

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Topic 1
Volume: 
15
Issue: 
2
Author: 
Cesare Romano and Elizabeth Burleson
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United Nations

UNFCCC Secretariat

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Environment
Global
Health
Human Rights
International Organizations
Science and Technology
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