• Comments on the Copenhagen Accord
• Climate Policy Brief (No.2): Copenhagen and After
• Climate Policy Brief: Copenhagen: Key Issues Facing Developing Countries
• The Climate and Trade Relation: Some Issues
• Carbon-Based Competitiveness, Trade and Climate Change: Perspectives of Developing Countries
• A Development-Oriented Approach in Making "Measurable, Reportable and Verifiable" Operational
• Accelerating Climate-Relevant Technology Innovation and Transfer to Developing Countries: Using TRIPS Flexibilities under the UNFCCC
• The Gap between Commitments and Implementation: Assessing the Compliance by Annex I Parties with their Commitments under the UNFCCC and its Kyoto Protocol
• Options on Possible Forms of the Agreed Outcome of the Bali Action Plan Negotiations Under the UNFCCC

• Comments on the Copenhagen Accord

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• Climate Policy Brief (No.2): Copenhagen and After

This Policy Brief looks at the process leading up to and the substantive provisions of the Copenhagen Accord. It identifies key issues in the Accord that would be important to consider for developing countries in light of their potential implications for the UNFCCC negotiations.

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• Climate Policy Brief: Copenhagen: Key Issues Facing Developing Countries

This policy brief outlines the key issues that face developing countries in the climate negotiations, highlighting the key development implications of various proposals and approaches, and the need to ensure that the UNFCCC and the Kyoto Protocol remain the fundamental treaty framework for global action on climate change.

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• The Climate and Trade Relation: Some Issues

This paper examines two major aspects of the climate and trade linkage: the planned use of unilateral trade measures, particularly border adjustment measures, on the ground of protecting climate change; and the issue of intellectual property rights and technology transfer. This paper also looks at the implications for human development in the issues in the climate-trade linkage.

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• Carbon-Based Competitiveness, Trade and Climate Change: Perspectives of Developing Countries

This paper analyses a number of issues raised by the increasing links between the global trade and climate agendas such as tariff liberalisation on green technologies, the use of low carbon standards, intellectual property rights and border adjustment measures. The paper examines these issues from the perspectives of developing countries focusing on the political and economic considerations that underlie them.
 
From the perspective of developing countries, trade measures are not necessarily the best nor the most appropriate means for addressing climate change concerns. Rather, there is great concern that the use of trade measures by developed countries ostensibly to address climate change concerns may in fact have the effect of restricting the market access of developing country products in developed countries and enhancing the competitive edge that developed countries have in global trade, thereby "locking in" the current inequitable development gap between developed and developing countries.

(The Energy, Environment and Development Programme at Chatham House has just published this new programme paper written by Vicente Paolo Yu III, Programme Coordinator for Global Governance for Development, South Centre. Please click here to go to the Chatham House website to download the paper: http://www.chathamhouse.org.uk/research/eedp/papers/view/-/id/806/ ) or  click here

• A Development-Oriented Approach in Making "Measurable, Reportable and Verifiable" Operational

This analytical note looks at how MRV metrics and modalities in relation to paragraphs 1(b)(i) and (ii) of the UNFCCC Bali Action Plan (BAP) can be made operational in ways that reflect the primary sustainable development concerns and perspectives of developing country Parties to the UNFCCC. It suggests that such metrics and modalities have to take into account existing modalities with a view towards further enhancing the effective implementation of the UNFCCC by all Parties.

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• Accelerating Climate-Relevant Technology Innovation and Transfer to Developing Countries: Using TRIPS Flexibilities under the UNFCCC
  

This Analytical Note examines flexibilities in the Agreement on Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and possible technology transfer approaches under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) as among the possible modalities that developing countries can use to obtain access to and affect transfers of climate-relevant technologies. It looks at the possibilities and challenges that need to be addressed in this regard.

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• The Gap between Commitments and Implementation: Assessing the Compliance by Annex I Parties with their Commitments under the UNFCCC and its Kyoto Protocol

This research paper looks at the extent of compliance by developing countries listed in Annex I of the UNFCCC of their obligations under the UNFCCC to undertake mitigation and to provide financing, technology, and capacity building to developing countries.
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• Options on Possible Forms of the Agreed Outcome of the Bali Action Plan Negotiations Under the UNFCCC

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