Abstract

INTRODUCTION As the world invests hope in the next UN Climate conference in Cancun, Mexico, in November, to reach a binding agreement and reflects back on the anodyne Copenhagen Accord – a hard-won but non-legally binding document with no deadline or formal target – the potential effects of climate change remain in sharp focus. Existing international legal obligations for the control of greenhouse gas emissions, accepted by most developed nations except the US, will cease to apply after 2012. Developing countries have declined to agree to even the most modest controls.

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