We are delighted to share this collection of editorials and reports on different Conference of the Parties (COPs) and Subsidiary Bodies (SBs) meetings, which Climate Policy Journal has published in the last 20 years.
Take a trip down memory lane, and enjoy reading about some of those key landmarks: the collapse of negotiations at The Hague (2000), the often-forgotten breakthrough in Montreal (2005), the drama of Copenhagen (2009), the tensions in Durban (2011) and Lima (2014), the “mirage of Madrid” (2019), and many more.
COP 6, The Hague, 2001
Michael Grubb (2001) Hold tight at The Hague, Climate Policy, 1:1, 3-4, DOI: 10.3763/cpol.2001.0102
Thomas R. Jacob (2001) Reflections on The Hague, Climate Policy, 1:2, 277-281, DOI: 10.3763/cpol.2001.0128
16th Session of the Subsidiary Bodies, June 2002
Thomas R. Jacob (2002) Report on UNFCCC Subsidiary Body Negotiations 16, Bonn, 5–14 June 2002, Climate Policy, 2:2-3, 255-258, DOI: 10.3763/cpol.2002.0226
COP 8, New Delhi, 2002
Tom Jacob (2003) Reflections on Delhi, Climate Policy, 3:1, 103-106, DOI: 10.3763/cpol.2003.0313
18th Session of the subsidiary bodies, June 2003
Thomas R. Jacob (2003) Report on UNFCCC Subsidiary Body Meetings, Bonn, June 2003, Climate Policy, 3:3, 309-313, DOI: 10.3763/cpol.2003.0336
COP 11/CMP1, Montreal, 2005
Joanna Depledge & Michael Grubb (2006) COP/MOP-1 and COP-11: a breakthrough for the climate change regime?, Climate Policy, 5:5, 553-560, DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2006.9685578
COP 12/CMP 2, Nairobi, 2006
Kati Kulovesi, María Gutiérrez, Peter Doran & Miquel Muńoz (2007) UN 2006 Climate Change Conference: a confidence-building step?, Climate Policy, 7:3, 255-261, DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2007.9685653
COP 13/CMP 3, Bali, 2007
Michael Grubb (2008) The Bali COP: Plus ça change…, Climate Policy, 8:1, 3-6, DOI: 10.3763/cpol.2008.0514
COP 15/CMP 5, Copenhagen, 2009
Michael Grubb (2010) Copenhagen: back to the future?, Climate Policy, 10:2, 127-130, DOI: 10.3763/cpol.2010.ED83
COP 16/CMP 6, Cancun, 2010
Michael Grubb (2011) Cancun: the art of the possible, Climate Policy, 11:2, 847-850, DOI: 10.3763/cpol.2011.0698
COP 17, Durban, 2011
Michael Grubb (2011) Durban: the darkest hour?, Climate Policy, 11:6, 1269-1271, DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2011.628786
COP 18, Doha, 2012
Michael Grubb (2013) Doha’s dawn?, Climate Policy, 13:3, 281-284, DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2013.770976
COP 20, Lima, 2014
Michael Grubb (2015) From Lima to Paris, Part 1: The Lima Hangover, Climate Policy, 15:3, 299-301, DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2015.1029767
Michael Grubb, Heleen de Coninck & Ambuj D. Sagar (2015) From Lima to Paris, Part 2: Injecting Ambition, Climate Policy, 15:4, 413-416, DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2015.1050856
COP 21, Paris, 2015
Jorge E. Viñuales, Joanna Depledge, David M. Reiner & Emma Lees (2017) Climate policy after the Paris 2015 climate conference, Climate Policy, 17:1, 1-8, DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2016.1242060
COP 23, Bonn/Fiji, 2017
Harald Winkler & Joanna Depledge (2018) Fiji-in-Bonn: will the ‘Talanoa spirit’ prevail?, Climate Policy,18:2, 141-145, DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2018.1417001
COP 25, Madrid, 2019
Charlotte Streck (2020) The mirage of Madrid: elusive ambition on the horizon, Climate Policy, 20:2,143-148, DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2020.1726564
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