Sustainable Development Law & Policy

American University's Washington College of Law has a publication titled "Sustainable Development Law & Policy." It's basically a law journal devoted to sustainable development. Volume VI, Issue 2 (Winter 2006) was a special edition on Climate Law. There are many excellent articles in this issue explaining the climate change issues. The issue is based on a workshop held in November 2005 hosted by the International Network for Environmental Compliance & Enforcement (INECE).

One article (Confidence Through Compliance in Emissions Trading Markets, by Joe Kruger and Christian Egenhofer) compared the regulatory cultures of the U.S.'s and EU's emissions trading programs. As part of the comparison, the article explains the United States' SO2 trading program in very clear terms.

Another article (Comment on COP 11 to the UNFCCC), while focusing on the COP 11, explained the very basics of the United Nations terminology and connectedness of the Conferences of the Parties, Meetings of the Parties, Kyoto Protocol, and United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.