Building the Climate Change Regime

The document outlines a framework for developing an international climate change regime, defined as the collective of international, national, and sub-national institutions and actors. It analyzes various proposals based on five key design issues: increasing ambition both within and outside the UNFCCC, sharing mitigation efforts, tracking country performance, and the legal form of future agreements. Each approach is evaluated against the criteria of adequacy, equity, and implementation, with the authors noting that these approaches are intended to be complementary.

• The paper analyzes the design of the international climate regime through five key issues: options to increase ambition both under and outside the UNFCCC, the sharing of mitigation efforts under the UNFCCC, the role of actors in tracking country performance on mitigation, and the legal form of future climate agreements.
• The authors assess the identified approaches to building the regime using three specific criteria: adequacy, equity, and implementation, while maintaining that these approaches should be complementary rather than mutually exclusive.

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.

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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} }