Gupta, Joyeeta --- "Good Governance and Climate Change: Recommendations from a North–South Perspective" [2006] ELECD 440; in Peeters, Marjan; Deketelaere, Kurt (eds), "EU Climate Change Policy" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2006)

Book Title: EU Climate Change Policy

Editor(s): Peeters, Marjan; Deketelaere, Kurt

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781845426057

Section: Chapter 16

Section Title: Good Governance and Climate Change: Recommendations from a North–South Perspective

Author(s): Gupta, Joyeeta

Number of pages: 20

Extract:

16. Good governance and climate change:
recommendations from a North-south
perspective
Joyeeta Gupta1

1. iNtroDUCtioN
much has already been said about the challenges facing the European Union
(EU) with respect to the current regulatory regime on the climate change prob-
lem. Pallemaerts and williams (Chapter 2) have described the legal evolution
of the global climate change agreements and have highlighted the evolving na-
ture of EU policy. the specific technical and sometimes political aspects of the
various instruments being developed within the multilateral regime and the
European framework have been discussed extensively by the other authors. this
chapter continues where Krämer (Chapter 15) ends with his critical evaluation
of EU policy, to place the discussion of climate change in the context of the key
North-south challenges in the climate change regime.
if we accept the fact that the climate change problem is a global commons
problem, then there is always the risk of free-riders. where there is a risk of
free-riders, it becomes essential to develop a global regulatory regime to address
the problem successfully. if we accept the fact that the climate change problem
is a long-term problem, then there is a risk that short-term solutions that are seen
as politically feasible are not durable. where there is such a risk, we must seek
to design a long-term durable regulatory regime. if we accept that climate change
may have severe impacts that are both immediately visible (such as the melting
of ...