Assesses the existing compliance system of the UN climate regime and examines the key challenges for the emerging post-2012 system.

Introduction Jutta Brunnée, Meinhard Doelle and Lavanya Rajamani; Part I. Context: 1. The emerging post-Cancun climate regime Jennifer Morgan; 2. Promoting compliance with MEAs Jutta Brunnée; 3. Compliance regimes in multilateral environmental agreements Jane Bulmer; Part II. The Kyoto Compliance System - Features and Experience: 4. Key features of the Kyoto protocol's compliance system René Lefeber and Sebastian Oberthuer; 5. Experience with the facilitative and enforcement branches of the Kyoto compliance system Meinhard Doelle; 6. Experiences with Articles 5, 7 and 8 defining the monitoring, reporting and verification system under the Kyoto protocol Anke Herold; Part III. Compliance and the Climate Change Regime - Issues, Options and Challenges: 7. The role of non-state actors in climate compliance Eric Dannenmaier; 8. Facilitation of compliance Catherine Redgwell; 9. Enforcing compliance in an evolving climate regime Michael Mehling; 10. Financial mechanisms under the climate change regime Haroldo Machado-Filho; 11. Post-2012 compliance and carbon markets Francesco Sindico; 12. Compliance and the use of trade measures Jake Werksman; 13. Comparability of efforts among developed country parties and the post-2012 compliance system M. J. Mace; 14. From the Kyoto protocol compliance system to MRVs: what is at stake for the European Union? Sandrine Maljean-Dubois and Anne-Sophie Tabau; 15. Compliance in transition countries Christina Voigt; 16. The KPS and developing countries and compliance in the climate regime Lavanya Rajamani; 17. The role of dispute settlement in the climate change regime Ruth Mackenzie; 18. Depoliticizing compliance Geir Ulfstein; Part IV. A Look Forward: 19. Conclusion Jutta Brunnée, Meinhard Doelle and Lavanya Rajamani.