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Addressing the Post-Kyoto stress disorder: reflections on the emerging legal architecture of the climate regime

This article identifies and explores the range of legal form options available to states in the negotiation process, and outlines the political and strategic considerations at play which will ultimately govern choice of legal form. This article argues that one of the most significant factors hindering substantive progress on a post-2012 climate agreement is, what is characterized here as, the