Future of Global Governance: Silver lining seen in COP21 Paris Agreement (Akihiko Tamura, E15 Initiative)

On December 12, 2015, the 21st United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP21), held in Paris under the tightest security, adopted the Paris Agreement, setting out initiatives for keeping a global temperature rise below 2 degrees Celsius. Unlike political agreements such as the Copenhagen Accord adopted in COP15 in 2009, this is a legal agreement. It is the successor to the also legally-binding Kyoto Protocol (adopted in COP3 in 1997), but is different in that member countries’ targets for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions are not included in the legally-binding portion of the Agreement.

As I am not an expert on climate change, I wish to refrain from commenting on the validity of the Paris Agreement in the light of climate change policy. However, I would like to examine it as a person with keen interest in the issue of global governance.

http://e15initiative.org/blogs/future-of-global-governance-silver-lining-seen-in-cop21-paris-agreement/