Key Message
A new international climate regime will need to foster substantial reductions in greenhouse gas emissions while also balancing the need for continued economic development by all countries, significant energy development in developing countries, and adaptation to the unavoidable impacts of climate change.
After Kyoto
What will happen after 2012?
What's New in After Kyoto?
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Furthering EU Objectives on Climate Change and Clean Energy: Building Partnerships with Major Developing Economies (PDF - 609 kb)
IISD has prepared this analysis of how the EU can further its stated objectives on climate change and clean energy by means of cooperation and engagement with developing countries. The focus is how the EU can more effectively strengthen partnerships with major developing economies like Brazil, China, India, Mexico and South Africa to support a global transformation to cleaner energy systems. -
Assessing the security implications of climate change for West Africa: Country case studies of Ghana and Burkina Faso (PDF - 620 kb)
Prepared by Oli Brown and Alec Crawford, this report investigates the impacts of climate change on security in West Africa at the country level. It sets out scenarios for the future security implications of climate change and identifies particular flash point issues that domestic authorities and external actors should bear in mind when designing development programs. -
A Way Forward: Canadian and International Perspectives on Post-2012 Climate Policy
Conference proceedings from IISD's A Way Forward: Canadian and International Perspectives on Post-2012 Climate Policy. On March 3-4, 2008, IISD hosted a conference in Ottawa examining the scope and implications of the Bali Action Plan and aiming to reflect the world to Canadians and Canada to the world.
In 2012, the commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol will come to an end. The international climate community is currently working on finding its replacement—a new regime that will determine the future basis upon which global cooperation on reducing greenhouse gas emissions and adapting to climate change impacts will take place. While formal negotiations are taking place under the auspices of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and its Kyoto Protocol, numerous parallel initiatives lead by national governments and research institutes are shaping the nature of this discussion.
Determining the future of the climate regime is a complex process influenced by the need to balance the diverse interests and national circumstances of developed and developing countries, enable continued economic development in all countries, and promote significant energy development in developing nations. Progress is critical, if the global community is to achieve the substantial reductions in greenhouse gas emissions needed to avoid significant, adverse climate change. It is time that we take meeting this challenge out of the hands of environment ministries and put it into the hands of those who truly make the critical development decisions, including finance ministries and central planners.
IISD is providing assistance in informing and facilitating the emergence of a post-2012 climate regime and the integration of climate change considerations across policy spheres. These efforts are undertaken in collaboration with international partners, the federal government of Canada, Canadian provincial governments, individual companies and other national and international research institutes.
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A Way Forward: Canadian and International Perspectives on Post-2012 Climate Policy
Conference proceedings from IISD's A Way Forward: Canadian and International Perspectives on Post-2012 Climate Policy. On March 3-4, 2008, IISD hosted a conference in Ottawa examining the scope and implications of the Bali Action Plan and aiming to reflect the world to Canadians and Canada to the world. -
Canadian Options for Post-2012
IISD provides assistance in informing and facilitating the emergence of a Canadian approach to a post-2012 climate regime in collaboration with the federal government, provinces and individual companies. -
International Options
IISD is working independently and in collaboration with partners around the world to explore how climate issues might be addressed after 2012 through and outside of the formal UNFCCC process. -
Climate Change and Foreign Policy
Meeting the climate change challenge over the long term will require new thinking in foreign policy—thinking that considers climate change as much more than an environmental issue. IISD is supporting the development of this approach by examining how climate change concerns can be more fully integrated into: diplomacy and international relations; energy security; peace and security; trade and investment; and development cooperation.
Key Publication
Climate Change and Foreign Policy: An exploration of options for greater integration
» John Drexhage, Deborah Murphy, Oli Brown, Aaron Cosbey, Peter Dickey, Jo-Ellen Parry, John Van Ham, Richard Tarasofsky, Beverley Darkin, IISD, 2007.Climate change is one of the greatest challenges of this century. Increasing evidence of the impacts of climate change and that human actions are contributing to changes in climate highlights the need for action. There is an increasing realization in the international community that achieving the consensus and commitment needed to take action requires positioning climate change in a broader foreign policy context.
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