The Paris Agreement on Climate Change
Analysis and Commentary
Edited by Daniel Klein, María Pía Carazo, Meinhard Doelle, Jane Bulmer, and Andrew Higham
Author Information
Edited by Daniel Klein, Legal Officer, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Secretariat, María Pía Carazo, Professor, University for Peace, Costa Rica, Meinhard Doelle, Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Research, Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University, Canada, Jane Bulmer, Legal Officer, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Secretariat, and Andrew Higham, Chief Executive, Mission 2020
Daniel Klein is an international environmental law expert, currently working as Legal Officer at the United Nations Climate Change Secretariat (UNFCCC). He worked for seven years in the central unit of the UNFCCC's Executive Direction and Management Programme responsible for coordinating the substantive support to the international negotiations, first, under the Bali Road Map process (2009-2012), and second, on the Paris Agreement (2013-2015).
María Pía Carazo is a member of the faculty of the Department of International Law at the UN-mandated University for Peace. Her current research focuses on harmonization of international legal regimes, human rights and climate change. Among others, she worked as a researcher at Max-Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, Germany.
Meinhard Doelle is a professor at the Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada, where he teaches climate change, energy and environmental law, and serves as Associate Dean, Research. His current research focusses on the UN climate regime, energy governance, and environmental impact assessments.
Jane Bulmer is an expert in international environmental law. She has worked as a lawyer for the United Nations Climate Change Secretariat since 2009, where she was a key member of the secretariat team that supported negotiations for the Paris Agreement. In particular, she worked on issues relating to the global stocktake and provided legal and procedural advice.
Andrew Higham is Chief Executive of Mission 2020, an initiative aimed at driving down global emissions at the pace required for full decarbonization by 2050. He was in charge of driving the strategy for reaching a universal, legally binding agreement within the United Nations Climate Change Secretariat from 2011-2016: managing the formation of the Durban Mandate and later on the team that supported the drafting of the Paris Agreement.
Contributors:
Crispin D´Auvergne
Ralph Bodle
Jane Bulmer
María Pía Carazo
Angela Churie
Jeniffer Hanna Collado
Heleen de Coninck
Yamide Dagnet
Joanna Depledge
Meinhard Doelle
Christiana Figueres
Andreas Fischlin
Jürgen Friedrich
Jorge Gastelumendi
Inka Gnittke
Emmanuel Guérin
Andrew Higham
Andrew Howard
Maria Ivanova
Daniel Klein
Antonio La Viña
Alaya de Leon
Kelly Levin
Eliza Northrop
Matti Nummelin
Sebastian Oberthür
Lavanya Rajamani
Ambuj Sagar
Linda Siegele
Irene Suárez
Halldór Thorgeirsson
Christina Voigt
Harald Winkler