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| The EU and Climate Treaty Negotiations after the Durban Conference by Dr. Katak Malla The EU has been and remains committed to concluding a comprehensive climate agreement under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). In this paper, outcomes of the latest round of negotiations, based on the UNFCCC and held at the Durban Climate Conference (2011), are assessed from the perspective of the law of treaties, focusing on some critical questions. Some specific features of the Durban decisions are compared with the decisions of the Copenhagen Climate Conference (2009). Flesh added by the Durban decisions to the bones of the Cancun Climate Conference decisions (2010) is analysed, and the actual outcomes of the Durban Conference are also scrutinised. A post-Durban scenario of negotiations is explored and a way forward suggested. In this context it is essential that the key players’ interests are better accommodated. Negotiations based on the needs of the parties, instead of negotiations based on their positions, are therefore recommended. Finally, a strategy for negotiations for the EU going forward is drawn, with some generic conclusions. Details... Climax to Constituency Assembly
The Supreme Court of Nepal has already delivered a verdict in which it is clearly defined the legal terms of CA extension. Meanwhile efforts to review the verdict is refused again that means there is no other alternative left to political parties including the government. The fresh step taken by Supreme Court is praiseworthy. Eventually, political parties need to go for a fresh mandate that if another Constituency Assembly is necessary or not and how it should be recognized. The situation demands a new discourse on how and who will drive the system and in which constitutional provisions. In this respect a new road map has to be developed and further guidance is needed with help of Supreme Court. Unless it is done, Nepalese polity will fall down into anarchy. Read more.... (Nepali version) Register with us
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