Abstract
This chapter examines efforts to address the climate-change problem by territorially-bounded states through international negotiations and institutions. It analyses the implications of these efforts for claims about territorial paradigms in international law, the sovereignty of states, and the need for de-territorialised action. The chapter finds that transnational climate responses have driven, at least in some instances, an expansion of transnational legal authority, even a re-allocation of that authority, but not a re-location of the source of authority. Climate change is a natural phenomenon that occurs in response to natural cycles. The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) achieved broad consensus on the need for greater international attention to the climate issue. A step towards explicit international commitments - in the form of greenhouse- gas emission reduction targets - was made in 1997 when the Kyoto Protocol was adopted. Keywords:Kyoto Protocol; transnational climate regime; UN FrameworkConvention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
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