The Emergence of Benefit-Sharing Under the Climate Regime: A Preliminary Exploration and Research Agenda

30 Pages Posted: 15 Nov 2014 Last revised: 21 Nov 2014

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Annalisa Savaresi

University of Eastern Finland - Centre for Climate, Energy and Environmental Law; University of Stirling - School of Law

Date Written: November 14, 2014

Abstract

This paper analyzes the increasing currency of benefit-sharing in the climate regime and its potential to contribute to engendering greater equity in climate governance. Though benefit-sharing is not explicitly mentioned in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change or in the Kyoto Protocol, the international climate regime raises a host of equity questions that have been at least in part addressed by making explicit or implicit reference to the notion of benefit-sharing. This paper maps the use of the benefit-sharing notion in the climate regime, with the objective of developing a research agenda towards ascertaining whether there is any overall coherence in the way it has been termed and interpreted, as well as its potential to better integrate human rights and environmental objectives in climate governance. In order to achieve this, the paper first introduces the main equity questions arising in the climate regime at the inter- and the intra-State levels, to then analyze them through a benefit-sharing lens. The conclusions articulate a series of research questions for further investigation, as well as a preliminary reflection on the implications of investigating equity in the climate regime from a benefit-sharing perspective.

Keywords: benefit-sharing, climate change, REDD, climate finance, human rights, equity

Suggested Citation

Savaresi, Annalisa, The Emergence of Benefit-Sharing Under the Climate Regime: A Preliminary Exploration and Research Agenda (November 14, 2014). BENELEX Working Paper 3, Edinburgh School of Law Research Paper No. 2014/43, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2524335 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2524335

Annalisa Savaresi (Contact Author)

University of Eastern Finland - Centre for Climate, Energy and Environmental Law ( email )

Joensuu
Finland

University of Stirling - School of Law ( email )

Stirling, Scotland FK9 4LA
United Kingdom

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