Effective mitigation of climate change will require deep international cooperation, which is
much more difficult to organize than the shallow coordination observed so far. Assessing the …

International environmental regimes—especially those regimes articulated in multilateral
environmental agreements—have been a subject of intense interest within the scientific …

Abstract The Paris Agreement on climate change aims to improve cooperation by allowing
governments to set their own commitments. Its success hinges on whether governments and …

Abstract On 25 September, 2015, world leaders met at the United Nations in New York,
where they adopted the Sustainable Development Goals. These 17 goals and 169 targets …

From start to finish, the question of legal form or character was central to the Paris
negotiations. The Paris Agreement is a treaty within the definition of the Vienna Convention …

It is increasingly clear that the world of climate politics is no longer confined to the activities
of national governments and international negotiations. Critical to this transformation of the …

Such threats as environmental change, food insecurity, and generalized violence force
massive numbers of people to flee states that are unable or unwilling to ensure their basic …

The Convention on Wetlands, also known as the Ramsar Convention, is one of the oldest
global environmental intergovernmental agreements. It was established in 1971 in the City …

Goggin and his colleagues (1990) identifi ed three generations of implementation research.
Implementation studies emerged in the 1970s within the United States, as a reaction to …

Global warming is one of today's greatest challenges. The science of climate change leaves
no doubt that policies to cut emissions are overdue. Yet, after twenty years of international …