How far can developing country commitments go in an immediate post-2012 climate regime?

ZhongXiang Zhang

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Abstract: To point out the direction and focus of future international climate negotiations, this paper discusses how far developing country commitments can go in an immediate post-2012 climate regime. The paper argues that developing country commitments are most unlikely to go beyond the defined polices and measures in this timeframe. On this basis, the paper suggests that, rather than attempting the unrealistic goal, international climate negotiations may instead need to initially frame the post-2012 developing country participation in terms of certain policies and policies that I envisioned a decade ago. This conclusion does not change, as Barack Obama becomes the U.S. President and the Democrats have regained control of both U.S. House of Representatives and Senate. However, it should be emphasized that his stance on climate issues and how ambitious U.S. commitments would be under his administration are going to be critical for developing countries to take bold steps themselves and to even agree to reflect those national commitments in a global deal.

Keywords: Post-Kyoto climate negotiations; Policies and measures; Developing countries (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q42 Q48 Q53 Q54 Q58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008-10-28, Revised 2008-12-10
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