Carmen Bunzl - Universidad Pontificia Comillas

Chapter 1. Introduction 3
responsibility for past emissions; and institutional feasibility –the extent to
which a policy may be seen as legitimate, accepted, adopted and implemented,
political realities have to be taken into account.
The purpose of this paper is not to prescribe specific instruments or
technologies. The objective of this paper is to support the negotiations of the
post-2012 international climate change regime which needs to be agreed by
2009 and translated into national policy and action plans between 2010-2012.
For this purpose, existing proposals have been identified, assessed and further
developed in order to suggest which are more likely to be suitable.
The findings of this paper intend to facilitate any discussion on the future of
the international climate change regime, for both experienced negotiators or
people seeking to form an opinion or position on the subject. It takes a broad
view of the problem; throughout the report different issues are discussed and
assessed in order to provide some recommendations on the subject. The scope
of the work of the project included the following research themes:
• To provide an overview of the problem of climate change and current
international negotiations (Chapter 1);
• To review possible options on how to design the future international
climate change regime and to further develop selected available
approaches (Chapter 2);
• To quantify and to assess effects of approaches for selected countries and
regions – mainly emission allowances and abatement costs (Chapter 3);
• To provide data on the current situation regarding climate change and
the possible implications that the future regime designs could have on
Spain (Chapter 4); and
• To provide recommendations of how to develop the design of the future
international climate change regime (Chapter 5).
Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería ICAI Carmen Bunzl Boulet Junio 2008