From Paris to Poland: A Postmortem of the Climate Change Negotiations

This article tracks the intergovernmental negotiations aimed at combatting human-induced greenhouse gas emissions under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change from COP21 and the creation of the Paris Agreement in 2015 to COP24 in Katowice, Poland in 2018. These conferences are explored in detail, focusing on the Pans Rulebook negotiations around how to implement market- and nonmarket-based approaches to mitigating climate change, as set out in Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, and the tensions regarding the inclusion of negotiating text safeguarding human rights. A concluding section comments on the collapse of Article 6 discussions and the implications for climate justice and social quality for the Paris Agreement going forward. Keywords: human rights, market mechanisms, Paris Agreement, Paris Rulebook, social quality
The Inconvenient Truth of Too Much Carbon in the Atmosphere While the Paris Agreement provides a means for all countries, rich and poor, to collectively reduce emissions, keeping global temperatures [...]