Appears in:
Asia/Pacific,
Europe,
Latin America,
Middle East and Africa,
North America,
Geostrategy,
China,
Northeast Asia,
Climate Change and Clean Energy,
Climate Change and Natural Resources,
Energy Security and Policy
Critical Issues
Background:
The EU has committed to a 20% reduction by 2020, deepened to 30% if others follow suit. Japan has pledged to reduce emissions 15% by 2020 from 2005. In the run-up to the summit, emerging economies like China and India pledged their own emissions reductions. The U.S., which has not ratified the 1990 Kyoto pact, is currently negotiating the Waxman-Markey climate bill that aims to reduce America's emissions 17% by 2020 (2005 as base year). After being approved by the U.S. House of Representatives in June 2009, the climate change bill failed in the senate.
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Associated Readings
Analysis
United Nations
May 21, 2009
Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
Analysis
UNCTAD
May 2009
Developing Country Interests in Climate Change Action and the Implications for a Post-2012 Climate Change Regime
Analysis
Centre for International Governance Innovation
John Whalley and Sean Walsh
May 2009
Issues, Obstacles and Outlook for the Copenhagen International Climate Change Negotiation
Analysis
BNP Paribas
Raymond Van der Putten
May 15, 2009
High stakes at Copenhagen Climate Conference
Analysis
Yale Global
Warwick J. McKibbin and Peter J. Wilcoxen
May 28, 2008
Climate Change After Kyoto – A Blueprint for a Realistic Approach
Analysis
OIES Energy & Environment Comment
Benito Muller
Feb , 2008
Bali 2007: On the road again!
Analysis
Council on Foreign Relations
Toni Johnson
Jan 25, 2008
The Post-Bali Road
Analysis
World Economic Forum
Edmund S. Phelps, Eileen Claussen, Lars G. Josefsson, Ichiro Kamoshita, Achim Steiner and Björn Stigson
Jan 23, 2008
Beyond Kyoto: Is Collaboration Possible?
Analysis
Financial Times
Fiona Harvey and John Aglionby
Dec 18, 2007
Who bears the load? Bali leaves big concessions needed on climate change
Opinions
Project Syndicate
Showdown in Bali
Dec 18, 2007
Showdown in Bali