Das Projekt "A proposal to enhance policy-making capacity under the framework convention on climate change" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von Wissenschaftszentrum Nordrhein-Westfalen, Wuppertal Institut fuer Klima - Umwelt - Energie, Abteilung Klimapolitik durchgeführt. Objective: To examine and strengthen the policy-making framework established by the 1992 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC) in order to ensure that its Conference of the Parties (COP), and subsidiary bodies, take fair and effective decisions to address climate change and its adverse effects in an expeditious manner. General Information/Objectives: To examine and strengthen the policy-making framework established by the 1992 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC) in order to ensure that its Conference of the Parties (COP), and subsidiary bodies, take fair and effective decisions to address climate change and its adverse effects in an expeditious manner. DESCRIPTION: The project focuses on examining the legal, institutional and procedural aspects of effective international policy-making in view of enhancing both the substantive content of the COP s decisions concerning the development of the next phase of commitments in the short to medium term as well as improving the process by which these commitments will be agreed and implemented over the longer term. The project examines and critically addresses two related research tasks: a) how to foster fair and effective solutions (Task 1), and, b) how to enhance policy-making and implementation (Task 2). As part of Task 1 the project addresses the following research issues: a critical analysis of different principles relating to burden sharing and their practical effects; assessment of different quantitative objectives and targets and timetables and their relative effectiveness at action forcing and examination of the kinds of policies and measures that might maximise the effectiveness of Parties efforts to address climate change, including the level of international coordination necessary to implement these. As part of Task 2 the project addresses institutional and procedural factors that enhance (or impede) effective international policymaking. Research examines how participation in decision-making can be increased, how scientific and technological input from specialist subsidiary bodies to political decision-making bodies can be enhanced and how effective review, compliance and enforcement mechanisms might be provided. These issues are explored by six case studies (in addition to the work on the FCCC) which will cover the following international environmental regimes: 1982 UN law of the Sea, 1985 Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer and its 1987 Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, 1992 Convention on Biological Diversity, 1992 Rio Declaration on Environment and Development and Agenda 21, 1994 General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and World Trade Organization, and 1994 Oslo Protocol to the 1979 Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution. Prime Contractor: Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development; London; UK.