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| Title | Does legal form matter in global governance? |
| Group | Public Administration and Policy |
| Project type | thesis |
| Credits | 30-39 |
| Supervisor(s) | Dr. Sylvia Karlsson-Vinkhuyzen |
| Examiner(s) | Prof. Dr. Katrien Termeer; Dr. Sylvia Karlsson-Vinkhuyzen |
| Contact info | sylvia.karlsson-vinkhuyzen@wur.nl |
| Begin date | 2014/04/01 |
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| Description | At the heart of the negotiations for a new climate change agreement (to be adopted in Paris in 2015) is the legal form it will take. After extremely contentious negotiations it was agreed that the agreement will have ‘legal force’. What that means is uncertain. Most of the proponents for strong action on climate change pushes for a legally binding agreement, probably assuming this has greater likelihood to be implemented. The proposed research project will examine whether there is any ground for that assumption. The legally binding Kyoto Protocol is the most legally binding agreement on climate change so far but in KP there are a variety of obligations beyond the quantified emission reductions. Taking the legalization criteria (Abbott and Snidal 2010) we can categorise the obligations after how ‘hard’ they are and then examine through the national communications of different categories of countries how they approach that diversity of obligations. For example, do they take more precise obligations more seriously? Do they take obligations that are subject to sanctions by the compliance committee more seriously? The project could also include interviews in one case country or the UNFCCC office in Bonn regarding how different kinds of obligations are approached. |
| Used skills | Qualitative research, Desk research, Document analysis and possibly interviews |
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