Negotiating climate change in the UN : same procedure as every year? Not quite!

Bausch, Camilla and Mehling, Michael (2017) Negotiating climate change in the UN : same procedure as every year? Not quite! Carbon and Climate Law Review, 11 (3). pp. 179-183. ISSN 1864-9904

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In 2007, Heads of State of eight major industrialised nations affirmed that the United Nations will remain ‘the appropriate forum for negotiating future global action on climate change.’ Within the U.N., however, a number of concurrent ‘tracks’ emerged for negotiations and discussions, accompanied by a certain degree of overlap and giving rise to questions on the mandate, scope, and limitations of each track as a pathway to a future climate regime. This article provides a retrospective on ten years of climate negotiations under the U.N., and traces important milestones and trends.