Building the Climate Change Regime

A World Resources Institute working paper surveying academic and policy proposals to build a post-2012 international climate change regime, focusing on five key design issues including ambition, mitigation sharing, performance tracking, and legal form.

• The paper analyzes five primary design issues for the international climate regime: methods to increase ambition both within and outside the UNFCCC, the distribution of mitigation efforts under the UNFCCC, the role of actors in monitoring country mitigation performance, and the legal structure of future agreements.

APA

World Resources Institute (n.d.). Building the Climate Change Regime. https://www.wri.org/research/building-climate-change-regime

Chicago

World Resources Institute. Building the Climate Change Regime. n.d. https://www.wri.org/research/building-climate-change-regime.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{worldresourcesinstitutendbuilding, author = {{World Resources Institute}}, title = {{Building the Climate Change Regime}}, institution = {World Resources Institute}, url = {https://www.wri.org/research/building-climate-change-regime}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }