Power, Responsibility, and Accountability: Re-Thinking the Legitimacy of Institutions for Climate Finance

Offers lessons from current mechanisms to finance climate mitigation and adaptation and considerations for legitimacy in new ones: the capacity to determine outcomes, the exercise of power as intended, and standards and systems to ensure accountability

Rethinking the Kyoto Protocol: Are There Legal Solutions to Global Warming and Climate Change?

Professor Williams moderates a panel discussion of the Kyoto Protocol and potential solutions to climate change. Other participants include Anita Halvorssen, J. Kevin Healy, William Pizer, and Jacob Werksman

Leadership Self-Awareness: Important For You and Your Team

Universities such as Harvard Business School and many global organizations are beginning to understand the importance of soft skills, such as self-awareness, and the influences they have on leadership success. A leader’s leadership experience and whether they are a recipient of leadership coaching or not can influence their self-awareness levels as a leader. A leader’s self-awareness levels have influence on how effective they are with their verbal workplace communication, trust, and turnover intention among teammates. Though leadership and self-awareness are two well-known topics, the topic of leadership self-awareness is one that has not been thoroughly researched. Better understanding if self-awareness differs between leaders based on their leadership experience and whether they are a recipient of leadership coaching or not as well as the affects a leader with or without self-awareness will have on their verbal workplace communication skills, trust, and turnover intention among their team will be addressed within this research. If decisionmakers within an organization can identify the effects leaders with self-awareness have and it can be measured, decision-makers would be better postured to implement quality leadership development trainings targeting the positive influence of a leader’s self-awareness before making a promotion. Self-awareness among leaders has been proven to lead to higher individual and organizational performance. Therefore, this research provides theoretical implications to gaps within the domain of leadership and self-awareness as well as self-leadership theory. Practical implications found in this research will assist leaders in having self-awareness which will lead to higher personal and organizational performance

Facilitating implementation and promoting compliance with the Paris agreement under article 15: Conceptual challenges and pragmatic choices

This article provides a comprehensive overview of the modalities and procedures for the effective operation of the committee tasked to facilitate implementation of, and promote compliance with, the provisions of the Paris Agreement. This is done in the context of the negotiation history and the object and purpose of the Paris Agreement. The article explains how the Committee is expected to function, the situations that trigger its proceedings, and the outcomes that can be expected. The article also explores the linkages to other processes and mechanisms under the Paris Agreement, especially the Enhanced Transparency Framework, and explains how the Committee will add value to the Paris Agreement’s architecture

Will International Investment Rules Obstruct Climate Protection Policies? An Examination of the Clean Development Mechanism

clean development mechanism, climate change, international investment agreements, international investment law, Kyoto Protocol, Multilateral Agreement on Investment,