In light of the «very slow» progress
in multilateral approaches to regulate climate change, it is «likely that the future climate change regime will be a patchwork of domestic systems - or assimilated systems such as that of the European Union — loosely coordinated at the international level», he told swissinfo.ch.
Not exact matches
As Julius Nyerere, president of Tanzania, pointed out
in a speech at the recent World Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development, held
in Rome, the officials of
multilateral and some national aid agencies are turning to a «basic needs»
approach — i.e., shifting to rural development as the major focus for aid.
What is already
in place as
multilateral state and cross-national agreements (WCI) and the regulatory
approach for domestic industries, also has many differences from the European
approach.
This document is divided into five sections, namely: (i) a description of landfills
in Latin America and the Caribbean and environmental aspects related to its construction and operation, (ii) a description of the generation of biogas from landfills (iii) a summary of existing technologies for the construction of biogas plants and their economic implications, (iv) a review of the practices of other
multilateral development banks and countries regarding financing of landfills and biogas plants, and (v) the proposed
approach IDB to finance biogas plants.
The
multilateral approach adopted since then helps ensure that the process grinds on more or less independent of any individual country's actions, an
approach enshrined
in the Paris Agreement, including the relatively long lead time (four years) for withdrawal, which has buffered the effects of the Trump administration's withdrawal announcement.
A number of other
multilateral forums have emerged as potentially valuable
in advancing the international process through an «exclusive»
approach.
Parties wanting less international oversight negotiated for their efforts to be «recognized» and that such efforts be «consistent with»
multilateral «guidance» when engaging
in cooperative
approaches.
Parties looking for a
multilateral approach got a «mechanism to contribute to the mitigation of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and support sustainable development»,
in short the Sustainable Development Mechanism (SDM), as an heir to the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and Joint Implementation (JI).
In 2013 President Obama signed an historic agreement with the President of China, stating that the two countries would work together and «through
multilateral approaches that include using the expertise and institutions of the Montreal Protocol to phase down the production and consumption of HFCs.»
Where the top down
approach focused on legally binding emissions targets and timetables has had no appreciable effect on global emissions, a bottom up bilateral and
multilateral approach focused on real commitments to put clean energy infrastructure
in the ground might begin to move the needle.
The report concluded with the plan to continue the work programme these specific areas: (a) The analysis of options for the mobilization of financial resources from a wide variety of sources, public and private, bilateral and
multilateral, including alternative sources, and their linkages; (b) The analysis of the relevant analytical work on the climate - related financing needs of developing country Parties; (c) The integration of lessons learned from fast - start finance (FSF) and best practices from developing and developed country experiences
in the analysis of sources and needs; (d) The exploration of the interface between public and private finance, including
approaches to leveraging private climate finance; (e) The identification of enabling environments that can unlock and foster increased climate finance flows for mitigation and adaption; (f) The exploration of delivery mechanisms that could play a role
in channeling climate finance.
The EU's
approach is to place emphasis on
multilateral and bilateral cooperation
in the field of environment.
Notwithstanding its narrow focus, the Mauritius Convention pursues a systematic reform
approach and confronts the fragmented structure of the international investment regime by proposing a legal principle (transparency) that applies to all existing bilateral, regional, and
multilateral investment treaties, and
in all available arbitral fora.
Lawyers on our team handle transactions
in both mature and emerging markets, including work with export credit agencies and
multilateral lending institutions, and we understand the different
approaches that must be adopted.