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The RECIEL articles below, published before 2005, are in an electronic version of the article published in RECIEL: complete citation information for the final version of the paper, as published in the print edition of RECIEL, is available on the Blackwell Synergy online delivery service, accessible via the journal's website at www.blackwellpublishing.com/reel or www.blackwell-synergy.com.

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08/01 'Key Adaptation Negotiation Issues, COP 13 and COP/MOP 3. Technical Briefing Paper.' January 2008, WWF and FIELD, 21pp (Mace) Available in PDF

07/02 'Regulatory challenges to the implementation of carbon capture and geological storage within the European Union under EU law', International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, Volume 1, Issue 2, April 2007, pages 253-260, 8th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies - GHGT-8 (Mace, Hendricks, Coenraads)

07/01 'Small Island States Seek Equitable Post-2012 Climate Agreement' November 2007, Natural Resources and the Environment, 5pp (Mace) Available in PDF

05/04 'Funding for Adaptation to Climate Change: UNFCCC and GEF Developments since COP-7', RECIEL, November 2005, Vol 14, Issue 3, 22pp (Mace) Available in PDF

05/03 'Impacts of EU and International Law on the Implementation of Carbon Capture and Geological Storage in the EU', June 2005, 165pp (Hendriks, Mace, Coenraads) Available in PDF

05/02 'Legal Nature of Emission Reductions and EU Allowances: Issues addressed in an International Workshop', Journal for European Environmental & Planning Law, Volume 2, Number 2, March 2005, 12pp (Mace) Available in PDF

04/07 ' International Workshop on The Legal Nature of Emission Reductions', FIELD Background Paper, May 2004, 42pp (FIELD) Available in PDF

04/06 'South-North Dialogue on Equity in the Greenhouse. A proposal for an adequate and equitable global climate agreement', May 2004, 58pp (Ott, Winkler, Brouns, Kartha, Mace, Huq, Kameyama, Sari, Pan, Sokona, Bhandari, Kassenberg, La Rovere & Rahman) Available online

03/06 'Adaptation Under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change: The Legal Framework', August 2003, 47pp (Mace) Available in PDF

03/05 'Insurance-Related Actions and Risk Assessment in the Context of the UNFCCC', a background paper prepared for the UNFCCC Secretariat’s May 12-13, 2003 Workshop on insurance and risk assessment in the context of climate change and extreme weather events, and May 13-14, 2003 Workshop on insurance-related actions to address the specific needs and concerns of developing country parties arising from the adverse effects of climate change and from the impact of the implementation of response measures, Bonn, Germany, May 2003, 49pp (Bayer, Mace, Verheyen, and Compton) Available online

02/03 'Greenhouse Gas Emission Allowance Trading in the EU', A Background FIELD Working Paper 42pp (Lefevere)

01/07 'Climatic collapse at The Hague: what happened, why, and where do we go from here?', International Affairs, Vol. 77, No. 2, 2001, 16pp (Yamin and Grubb) Available in PDF

01/03 'Will International Investment Rules Obstruct Climate Protection Policies?', Climate Notes, World Resources Institute, Washington, April 2001, 18pp (Werksman, Baumert & Dubash) Available online

00/13 'Institutional and Legal issues of emissions trading', Climate Change and Development, a collaborative project of the UNDP Regional Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean and the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies 2000, 20pp (Stewart and Sands)

00/12 'An examination of the Kyoto Protocol from the small island perspective', Climate Change and Development, a collaborative project of the UNDP Regional Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean and the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, 2000, 21pp (Slade and Werksman)

00/11 'The Clean Development Mechanism: The "Kyoto Surprise"', Climate Change and Development, a collaborative project of the UNDP Regional Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean and the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies 2000, 21pp (Werksman)

00/10 'The Clean Development Mechanism: Unwrapping the "Kyoto Surprise"', Economics for a Sustainable Earth Series, Environmental Markets, Equity and Efficiency', Columbia University Press, 2000, 20pp (Werksman)

00/8 'Defining and Distributing the "Share of the Proceeds" Under the Clean Development Mechanism', Published by the Center for Clean Air Policy (CCAP), September 2000 as part of the The Clean Development Mechanism Dialogue Papers http://www.ccap.org/m-pub.htm#LYONPUB 14pp (Lefevere)

99/36 'Compliance and the Kyoto Protocol: Building a Backbone into a Flexible Regime', Yearbook of International Environmental Law, 27, 1999, Eds. J. Brunnee and E. Hay (Werksman)

99/25 'Equity, Entitlements and Property Rights under the Kyoto Protocol: the Shape of "Things" to Come', RECIEL, Vol 8, Issue 3,1999, 10pp (Yamin)

99/24 'Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading and the WTO', RECIEL, Vol 8, Issue 3, 1999, 14pp (Werksman)

99/21 'NGO Participation in the Framework Convention on Climate Change', Paper written for the Project to Enhance Policy Making Capacity under the FCCC funded by the European Commission DGXII, 1999 (Yamin & Wasserstein) Available in PDF

99/20 'Increasing Private Sector Involvement in the Implementation of the Kyoto Protocol: Can International Organization for Standardization (ISO) Make a Useful Contribution?', Paper written for the Project to Enhance Policy Making Capacity under the FCCC funded by the European Commission DGXII, 1999 27pp (Yamin & Schneider)

99/19 'Implementing the Kyoto Mechanisms: Issues and Options for Joint Implementation and the CDM', Paper written for the Project to Enhance Policy Making Capacity under the FCCC funded by the European Commission DGXII, 1999 27pp (Yamin & Leggett)

99/18 'Equity, Entitlements and Property Rights under the Kyoto Protocol: The Shape of "Things" to Come', Paper written for the Project to Enhance Policy Making Capacity under the FCCC funded by the European Commission DGXII, 1999, 22pp (Yamin)

99/17 'Procedural and Institutional Aspects of the Emerging Climate Change Regime: Do Impoverished Procedures Lead to Impoverished Rules?', Paper written for the Project to Enhance Policy Making Capacity under the FCCC funded by the European Commission DGXII, 1999, 32pp (Werksman) Available in PDF

99/16 'Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Ships - The Feasibility of Controlling Emissions from Marine Bunker Fuels', Paper written for the Project to Enhance Policy Making Capacity under the FCCC funded by the European Commission DGXII, 1999, 21pp (Wassestein & Yamin) Available in PDF

99/8 'The Clean Development Mechanism: Proposals for its Operation and Governance', FIELD working paper, 1999, 34pp (Haites & Yamin)

99/1 'Joint Implementation: Theory and Practice in International Environmental Law', Global Environmental Change, 9pp (Yamin)

98/35 'The CDM in Context: Conceptual and Functional Linkages between the Kyoto Protocol and Existing Financial Institutions prepared for the Expert Consultation Meeting on the Clean Development Mechanism' Bridgetown, The CDM of the Kyoto Protocol: Opportunities and Challenges for the Caribbean and Small Island Developing States Summary, Report of a Workshop, Barbados, 29-30 October 1998, 15pp (Werksman)

98/34 'Climate Change Negotiations: an Analysis of the Kyoto Protocol', International Journal of Environment and Pollution, Vol 10, Nos 3/4, 1998 Published by Inderscience Enterprises Ltd / UNESCO (Yamin)

98/31 'The Kyoto Protocol: Tackling Climate Change', The Foundation Magazine of the Foundation Forestry Group, Autumn / Winter 1998, 1pp (Cameron)

98/30 'Bilateral, Multilateral and Other Approaches to the Clean Development Mechanism', The Clean Development Mechanism Draft working papers, Produced by WRI, FIELD & CSDA, October 1998, 3pp (Yamin)

98/28 'Compliance Issues Under the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism', The Clean Development Mechanism Draft working papers produced by WRI, FIELD & CSDA, October 1998, 8pp (Werksman)

98/27 'The Clean Development Mechanisms and Adaptation', The Clean Development Mechanism Draft working papers produced by WRI, FIELD & CSDA, October 1998, 13pp (Yamin)

98/26 'Responding to Non-Compliance under the Climate Change Regime', OECD Information paper, October 1998, 27pp (Werksman)

98/25 'Investing in Sustainable Development: the Potential Interaction between the Kyoto Protocol and the Multilateral Agreement on Investment', Global Climate Governance: Inter-linkages between the Kyoto Protocol and other Multilateral Regimes Report, prepared by UNU, UNU/IAS & GEIC, Ed. W. Bradnee Chambers, 1998, 16pp (Werksman & Santoro)

98/24 'Operational and Institutional Challenges', Issues and Options: The Clean Development Mechanisms, UNDP Report, 1998, 27pp (Yamin)

98/23 'Provisional Application: Precedents and Use in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change', FIELD working paper, January 1998, 14pp (Yamin & Clark)

98/22 'The Clean Development Mechanisms: The Kyoto Surprise', FIELD working paper, August 1998, 24pp (Werksman & Cameron )

98/21 'Designing the Clean Development Mechanisms', FIELD working paper, October 1998, 41pp (Cameron & Buck)

98/20 'The Clean Development Mechanism and Investment Opportunities for the Private Sector', FIELD working paper, September 1998, 24pp (Cameron & Buck)

98/19 'The Clean Development Mechanism and Adaptation', A paper for the FCCC Secretariat Workshop on Capacity Building for Project Based Mechanisms, Abidjan, 17-18th September 1998, 29pp (Yamin)

98/18 'Unanswered Questions', Chap. from Issues & Options: The Clean Development Mechanism United Nations Development Programme - Climate Change: Towards Buenos Aires and Beyond, August 1998, 80pp (Yamin)

98/17 'The Clean Development Mechanism and Adaptation Paper for the Second Meeting of the Informal Contact Group on the CDM', 11-12th September 1998, 28pp (Yamin)

98/14 'The Clean Development Mechanism: Unwrapping the "Kyoto Surprise"', RECIEL, Vol 7:2, 1998, 4pp (Werksman)

98/11 'The Kyoto Protocol: Origins, Assessment and Future Challenges, RECIEL Vol 7:2, 1998, 4pp (Yamin) 98/6 Developing Countries and Emission Trading Canada / US Emissions Trading Forum, Vancouver 16-17 March 1998 7pp (Yamin)

98/5 'Origins, Evolution and Prospects of the Clean Development Mechanism Climate after Kyoto Conference', 4-5 February 1998, Chatham House, London, 1998, 10pp (Yamin)

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97/12 'Incremental Costs Under the Climate Change Convention: The International Legal Context', FIELD Working Paper, August 1997, 18pp (Yamin)

97/3 'Provisional Application: Precedents and Use in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change', A FIELD working paper, July 1997, 14pp (Yamin & Clark)

96/25 'Climate Change Convention: Challenges, Opportunities and Future Options for Pakistan', Paper for the Ministry of Environment - Pakistan Second Annual Sustainable Development Conference, Islamabad, 4 Aug 1996 (Yamin & Grubb)

96/17 'Legal Issues Presented by a Pilot International Greenhouse Gas Trading System', Published by the UN Conference on Trade & Development, New York & Geneva, 1996, 58pp (Stewart, Wiener & Sands)

96/16 'Compliance and Transition: Russia's Non-Compliance Tests the Ozone', Heidelberg Journal of International Law, Vol 56 No. 3, 1996, 24pp (Werksman)

96/15 'The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change: The European Carbon/Energy Tax and its International Trade Law Implications', FIELD working paper, 1996, 17pp (Cameron & Makuch)

95/18 'Consolidating Governance of the Global Commons: Insight from the Global Environment Facility', Reports for Yearbook of International Environmental Law, 1995, Vol 6, Ed Günther Handl, 41pp (Werksman)

95/11 'The Emerging International Regime for Climate Change: Structures and Options After Berlin', A workshop Report at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Eds. Grubb & Anderson, June 1995, pp59-64 (Yamin)

95/9 'Carrying Forward The Berlin Mandate: Strengthening Commitments and Implementing Activities Jointly', A FIELD Paper, Aug 1995, 6pp (Werksman & Yamin)

94/39 'The Judicial Review of Government Decisions: The THORP Litigation in the UK', A Case Study for Environmental Law Network International Conference at Strasbourg, Oct 1994, 6pp (Cameron)

94/38 'The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change: The First Conference of the Parties Opening in Berlin', Global Environmental Change, 1994, Vol 4, No 4, pp339-40 (Werksman)

94/31 'Implementation of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change: International Trade Law Implication', Chapter 6 of Trade and Environment: The Search for Balance, 1994, Eds James Cameron, Paul Demaret & Damien Geradin, Published by Cameron May, pp116-46 (Cameron & Makuch)

94/13 'The Climate Change Convention: The Development of Criteria for Joint Implementation', A FIELD Working Paper, February 1994, 11pp (Yamin)

94/10 'Principles of Equity in International Environmental Agreements with Special Reference to the Climate Change Convention', FIELD Background Paper, July 1994, 43pp (Yamin)

94/6 'Financing the Climate Change Convention through the GEF: Discord or Discourse', A Discussion Paper published by the Woods Hole Research Centre, Massachusetts, in the conference report, The Financial Mechanism of the Framework Convention on Climate Change: Operational Issues, August 1994, pp5 (Werksman)

94/5 'SIDS Briefing on Adaptation Costs under the Climate Change Convention', FIELD Discussion Paper, April 1994, 6pp (Werksman)

94/4 'Additional Funds, Incremental Costs and the Global Environment', RECIEL Vol 3, Nos 2/3, 1994, pp81-7 (Werksman & Jordan)

94/3 'Designing a Compliance System for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change', A FIELD Working Paper, 1994, 22pp (Werksman)

94/2 'Topical Index to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change', FIELD Working Paper, Feb 1994, 26pp (Werksman)

94/1 Report of the Biodiversity and Climate Change Forum for Small Island Developing States held at the UN Global Conference for the Sustainable Development of SIDS, Barbados, April-May 1994, 25pp (Yamin)

93/28 'The Regulation of Energy Efficiency in the EC - Recent Developments', Environmental Law Network International Newsletter, No 1/1993, pp 5-9 (Yamin)

93/22 'Implementation of the Climate Change Convention', TIEMPO, Issue 7, Jan 1993 pp1-5 (Cameron)

93/21 'The Climate Change Convention: What it Means and How it was Made', International Journal of Environment and Pollution, Vol 3, No 1-3, 1993 (Cameron)

93/19 'The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and its Implications for Local Government', National Environmental Law Association, Perth, Australia, Nov 1993, 17pp (Cameron)

93/15 'The International Experience on the Implementation of Climate Change Controls at the Local Level', University of Western Australia, 1993 (Cameron)

93/6 'The Climate Change Convention and Joint Implementation: Legal, Institutional and Procedural Issues', FIELD Working Paper, Aug 1993, 22pp (Yamin)

93/4 'Down to Details: A Response to the Director General of Electricity Supply's Request for Comments on Energy Efficiency Performance Standards', Joint Submission of FIELD & Conservation Law Foundation, April 1993,80pp

93/3 'The Relationship between the Climate Change Convention and the GEF: The Convention and the GEF - Meeting the Costs of Adaptation / Incremental Costs under the Climate Change Convention: The International Legal Context / The Convention, its Financial Mechanism and the GEF: A Legal Agreement on Accountability', FIELD Working Papers, May 1993, 62pp (Werksman)

92/26 'Establishing an International System for Trading Pollution Rights', International Environmental Reporter, Feb 1992, 6pp, Bureau of National Affairs, Washington (Green & Sands)

92/25 'Final Report of the Joint FIELD / CLF Feasibility Study to Promote the Implementation of Energy Efficiency Programmes', For the John Merck Foundation & German Marshall Fund, 1992, 60pp (Yamin & Sole)

92/12 'The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change: The Need for a Protocol on Energy Efficiency and New and Renewable Sources of Energy', FIELD Working Paper, Dec 1992, 14pp (Yamin)

92/11 'The Climate Change Convention and the GEF: Meeting the Costs of Adaptation', FIELD Working Paper, Nov 1992, 8pp (Werksman)

92/9 'Liability for Environmental Damage in International and Transboundary Settings', 1992, 42pp (Rose & Tarasofsky)

92/8 'International Law and the Exploitation of Oil in Ecuador', 1992, 44pp (Aguilar Fabra)

92/2 'International Law and Tradable Emission Permits Framework Convention on Climate Change', CIEL / AOSIS Background Paper, Feb 1992, 23pp (Green & Sands)

91/27 'Global Warming and Climate Change: An Overview of the International Legal Process', Land Use and Environmental Law Review, 1991, 42pp (Zaelke & Cameron)

91/25 'European Community Law and Policy on Global Warming', Policies and Laws on Global Warming: International and Comparative Analysis, pp229-40 (Cameron)

91/17 'Insuring Against the Consequences of Sea Level Rise', CIEL / AOSIS Background Paper, 1991,14pp (Wilford)

91/12 'Towards an International Convention on Climate Law & Policy on Global Warming in the UK', Policies and Laws on Global Warming: International and Comparative Analysis, Ed. Prof Toru Iwama Environmental Research Centre Japan 1991 pp213-27 (Sands & Jenn)

91/7 'Financial Resources and International Funding Mechanisms for the Climate Change Convention', CIEL / AOSIS Background Paper, 1991, 35pp (Sands & Bulatao)

91/6 'International Procedural Aspects of Atmospheric Protection: Environmental Impact Assessment and Access to Information', FIELD Background Paper, 1991, 30pp (Sands & Bulatao)

91/5 'Towards an International Convention on Climate Change: Selected Documents of International Environmental Law International Convention on Climate Change', CIEL / AOSIS Background Papers 1 & 2 on International Environmental Law, 1991, 84pp & 69pp (See also 91/2)

91/3 'The Alliance of Small Island States Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee for a Framework Convention on Climate Change', A FIELD Briefing Document Versions 2.1 & 3.1, 1991, 186pp (See also 91/4)

91/1 'The Convention on Climate Change: CIEL Project on Legal Research and Practical Assistance to the AOSIS Background Papers on International Environmental Law', Jan 1991, 27pp

90/2 'Global Warming and Climate Change: An Overview of the International Legal Process', American University Journal of International Law and Policy, Vol 5 No 2, 1990, pp249-90 (Zaelke & Cameron) (voted best international environmental law review article of the year: translated into Italian and reprinted in Futuro Sostensibile "Effecto Sera e Mutamenti Climacti: Il Tempo di Scegliere).

The RECIEL articles below, are in an electronic version of the article published in RECIEL: complete citation information for the final version of the paper, as published in the print edition of RECIEL, is available on the Blackwell Synergy online delivery service, accessible via the journal's website at www.blackwellpublishing.com/reel or www.blackwell-synergy.com.

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