Tackling
climate change through the 1992 UN Framework Convention, the 1997 Kyoto
Protocol and the post-2012 regime: promoting verification and implementation
Researcher: Larry MacFaul
Funder: Esmée Fairbairn Foundation
VERTIC's climate change project
promotes the development and maintenance of effective and coherent verification
systems in the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
(UNFCCC), its 1997 Kyoto Protocol and proposals for the post-2012 regime.
Robust verification systems (including all monitoring, reporting and review procedures) and compliance systems perform a crucial role in the effective functioning of
the climate change regime. These systems measure overall and individual party's progress towards treaty goals. They are also fundamental to the operation of the Kyoto Protocol's flexible mechanisms. This treaty architecture should facilitate and promote
progress as well as give parties and other entities the opportunity
to learn from and assist each other in the development of best practice
in designing policies to tackle climate change.
Project activities
include:
• assessing the effectiveness of verification systems in the UNFCCC and
its Kyoto Protocol, proposals for the post-2012 regime, and related areas.
• organizing capacity building workshops and roundtables on treaty verification and implementation issues.
• promoting treaty implementation, maintenance and development
of climate change treaty verification systems at the UNFCCC Conference
of Parties and other climate change meetings as well as liaising with
national governments, international bodies and NGOs.
