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Foreword / Joke Waller Hunter -- Introduction -- Overview -- Regime participants -- Objective and principles -- Mitigation commitments -- Flexibility mechanisms -- Research, systematic observation, education, training and public awareness -- Adaptation -- Impacts of response measures -- Finance, technology and capacity-building -- Reporting and review -- Compliance -- Institutions -- The negotiation process -- Scientific and technical input -- Administering the regime -- Linkages -- Evolution of the regime -- Conclusions : taking stock and moving forward -- List of parties, their groups and key statistics -- Annex I Party fact sheets : emissions, targets and projections for Annex I Parties and groupings -- Table of articles, issues and COP decisions.

This book presents a comprehensive, authoritative and independent account of the rules, institutions and procedures governing the international climate change regime. Its detailed yet user-friendly description and analysis covers the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Kyoto Protocol, and all decisions taken by the Conference of the Parties up to 2003, including the landmark Marrakesh Accords. Mitigation commitments, adaptation, the flexibility mechanisms, reporting and review, compliance, education and public awareness, technology transfer, financial assistance and climate research are just some of the areas that are reviewed. The book also explains how the regime works, including a discussion of its political coalitions, institutional structure, negotiation process, administrative base, and linkages with other international regimes. In short, this book is the only current work that covers all areas of the climate change regime in such depth, yet in such a uniquely accessible and objective way.