Climate Change Program
Research & Publications

• Sumission to the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action Regarding Information, Views and Proposals Related to the Durban Platform Work Plan under Workstream I (2013)

• Promoting Human Rights in the Future Climate Regime (Duyck & Johl) (January 2013)

• A Human Rights-Based Approach to Climate Change [The Human Rights-Based ApproachA Field of Action for Human Rights Education] (Orellana) (2012)

• Human Rights & Environment in the Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Orellana) (February 2012)

• A Human Rights-based Approach to Climate Finance (Johl & Lador) (February 2012) [En Espanol]

• Initial Submission of Views on Work Stream I of the Transitional Committee Regarding Environmental and Social Safeguards (CIEL/Sierra Club) (May 2011)
  

• Climate Change and Human Rights: A Primer
  (Orellana & Johl) (May 2011)
  Summary of how climate change impacts and response measures are affecting the full and effective enjoyment of human rights; includes a summary of relevant activities and decisions taken at the Human Rights Council, UNFCCC and other policy processes.
  

• Fossilized Thinking: The World Bank, Eskom, and the Real Cost of Coal (Amerasinghe & Porter) (March 2011)

• Analysis of Human Rights Language in the Cancun Agreements (UNFCCC 16th Session of the Conference of the Parties) (March 2011)

• Climate Change in the Work of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
  (Orellana, Kothari, and Chaudhry) (May 2010)
  This paper describes how the climate change and human rights issues have developed in practice, assessing its application in the work of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR).
  
  

• Is World Trade Law a Barrier to Saving Our Climate? (CIEL/FOE) (September 2009)

• Practical Approaches to Integrating Human Rights and Climate Change Law and Policy (February 2009) (Orellana)

• Standards, Labelingand Certification [Prepared for Trade and Climate Change Seminar, June 2008] (IAE/CIEL) (August 2008)

• New Thinking on Trade Policy and Development: Trade and Climate Change (CIEL/PSE) (Bernasconi) (July 2008) [Also available in French, German and Spanish.]

• Legal Analysis of the GEF Resource Allocation Framework (Wiser) (May 2007)

• Action Targets: A New Approach to International Greenhouse Gas Controls [Article appears in Climate Policy, Voume 5, No. 6 (May 2006) (Baumert & Goldberg)

• An Inuit Petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights for Dangerous Impacts of Climate Change (December 2004) (CIEL/Earthjustice) (Goldberg & Wagner)

• Action Targets: A New Form of GHG Committment (October 2004) (CIEL/ World Resources Institute) (Goldberg/Baumert) [Paper appears in Joint Implementation Quarterly, Vol 10., No. 3, October 2004]

• Considering Alternatives: The Case for Limiting CO2 Emissions from New Power Plants Through New Source Review (May 2004) (Foote)

• The Implementation and Compliance Regimes under the Climate Change Convention and its Kyoto Protocol (Wang & Wiser) [CC03-1] [All further use of this material other than for personal research is subject to permission from Blackwell Publishing.]

• Global Warrming and Human Rights: A Case Study from the Arctic [Presented at the Kagawa University Symposium on Common but Differentiated Responsibilities, December 2002] (Goldberg)

• Frontiers in Trade: The Clean Development Mechanism and the General Agreement on Trade in Services (2 Int. J. Global Environmental Issues 288 (2002)) (Wiser) [CC02-1]

• Kyoto Protocol Packs Powerful Compliance Punch (in International Environment Reporter, 16 January 2002) (Wiser)

• Public Participation in the Clean Development Mechanism of the Kyoto Protocol (in The New "Public": the Globalization of Public Participation 203 (Carl Bruch ed., Environmental Law Inst. 2002)) (Eddy & Wiser)

• Petitioning for Adverse Impacts of Global Warming in the Inter-American Human Rights System (2002) (CIEL/Earthjustice) (Goldberg & Wagner)

• Global Warming and Sustainable Development (One of eight issue briefs presented at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in August, 2002)

• Ministers Reach Landmark Agreement on Kyoto Protocol (August 2001) (Krinn)

• Hybrid Liability Revisited:  Bridging the Divide Between Seller and Buyer Liability (November, 2000) (Wiser & Goldberg)

• Analysis of Text by the Co-Chairmen of the Joint Working Group on Compliance (September 10, 2000) (CIEL/WWF)   Also available in an HTML format.

• Comments on Selected Portions of the JWGC Co-Chairs' 'Elements Paper' Paper (January 2000) (Wiser)

• Restoring the Balance: Using Remedial Measures to Avoid and Cure Non-Compliance under the Kyoto Protocol (March 2000) (CIEL/WWF) (Wiser & Goldberg) [CC00-2]

• The Compliance Fund: A New Tool for Achieving Compliance under the Kyoto Protocol (June 1999) (Wiser & Goldberg) [CC99-1] (An Executive Summary is also available online.)

• Compliance Systems Under Multilateral Agreements:  A Survey for the Benefit of Kyoto Protocol Policy (1999) (Wiser) [CC99-2]

• Compliance Institutions for the Kyoto Protocol:  A Joint CIEL/WWF Proposal (1999) (Morgan & Porter) [CC99-3]

• Carbon Conservation: Climate Change, Forests and the Clean Development Mechanism and Case Study (CIEL/CEDARENA,1998) (Goldberg) [CC98-1] 

• Responsibility for Non-Compliance Under the Kyoto Protocol's Mechanisms for Cooperative Implementation (CIEL/EuroNatura, 1998) (Goldberg, Porter, Lacosta & Hillman) [CC98-2]

• Building a Compliance Regime Under the Kyoto Protocol (CIEL/EuroNatura, 1998) (Goldberg, Wiser, Porter & Lacosta) [CC98-3]

• Global Climate Change, in Foreign Policy In focus (Interhemispheric Resource Center and Institute for Policy Studies, Vol. 3, No. 12, May 1998) (Goldberg & Porter) [CC98-4]
  

• 12 Principles of Joint Implementation, CIEL Position Paper (October 1997) (Goldberg & Stilwell) [CC97-1]

• Effectiveness of Trade & Positive Measures in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Lessons from the Montreal Protocol Agreements (United Nations Environment Programme, 1997) (Goldberg, et al.) [CC97-2]

• The Joint Implementation Pilot Phase: A Call for Independent Evaluation (August 1996) (Goldberg) [CC96-1]

• Helping the Global Environmental Facility Achieve its Mission, Testimony of the Center for International Environmental Law before the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on International Development, Trade and Monetary Policy (April 14, 1994) (Goldberg) [CC94-2]

• As the World Burns: Negotiating the Framework Convention on Climate Change, 5 Georgetown International Environmental Law Review 2 (1993) (Goldberg) [CC93-1]

• The Global Environment Facility: Green Fund or Green Folly?, 383 Wise News Communique, Special Edition, Energy & Development (1993) (Goldberg) [CC93-2]

• Joint Implementation Under the Climate Convention: Promises and Problems (Prepared for the White House Conference on Global Climate Change) (Summer 1993) (Goldberg) [CC93-3]

• The Montreal Protocol Multilateral Fund: A Model for the Framework Convention on Climate Change, 16 International Environmental Report, 6 (1993) (Goldberg) (Available from the Bureau of National Affairs) [CC93-4]

• Negotiating the Framework Convention on Climate Change, 4 Tuoro Journal of Transnational Law 149 (1993) (Goldberg) (includes Climate Convention) [CC93-5]

• Protecting Sensitive Aquatic Habitats in the Gulf of Aqaba, in Protecting the Gulf of Aqaba: A Regional Environmental Challenge (Environmental Law Institute, 1993) (Hewison & Oran) [CC93-6]

• Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions: A Combined Strategy Using Fees, Permits, and Country Commitments, 3 Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum (1993) (Goldberg) [CC93-7]

• Freedom for the Seas in the Twenty-first Century: Ocean Governance and Environmental Harmony (Island Press, 1993) (Van Dyke, Zaelke & Hewison, eds.) (Co-Winner of the 1994 Sprout Award for best book on international environmental affairs) [Available from Island Press]

• A Survey of United States Laws Restricting the Export of Controlled and Hazardous Substances (1992) (Goldberg) [CC92-1] /

• Global Warming and Climate Change: An Overview of the International Legal Process, 5 American University Journal of International Law & Policy 249 (Winter 1990) (Zaelke & Cameron); reprinted in 22 Land Use & Environmental Law Review (1991); reprinted in Italian in Futuro Sostenible: Effetto Serra 36 (1991) [CC91-1] /

• Technological Cooperation and the Montreal Protocol Multilateral Fund, with Technological Cooperation and the Global Environment Facility (1991) (Goldberg) [CC91-2]