TY - JOUR
AU - Rajamani, Lavanya
AB - The Nature, Promise, and Limits of Differential Treatment in the Climate Regime Lavanya Rajamani I. INTRODUCTION The existence of pervasive inequalities between states on the one side and ecological and economic interdependence on the other has given rise to a host of challenges in international cooperative efforts. In the realm of international environmental cooperation, the challenge is one of integrating diverse states into environmental treaty regimes. Writing in 1971, Richard Falk feared that “a world of states each with its own self-serving rendering of historical experience and bolstered by deeply ingrained traditions of sovereignty, varying material circumstances, and wildly uneven perceptions of the character and seriousness of different types of environmental harm, is structurally incap- able of meeting the ecological challenge.” Over three decades later, the world has proved Falk wrong. Although the state of the global environment is far from satisfactory, the community of sovereign states has, as a result of three decades of environmental dialogue, created a conceptual legal framework, arrived at a range of different burden-sharing arrangements, and deployed a host of techniques to integrate different states into international environmen- tal regimes. Of the techniques used, differential treatment has proven to be the most effective as 
TI - The Nature, Promise, and Limits of Differential Treatment in the Climate Regime
JF - Yearbook of International Environmental Law
DO - 10.1093/yiel/16.1.81
DA - 2006-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/the-nature-promise-and-limits-of-differential-treatment-in-the-climate-gq64rvZ0M0
SP - 81
EP - 118
VL - 16
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -