The 2015 Paris Climate Agreement; Policy and Legislative Implications for Ethiopia
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2017-06
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AAU
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This paper assesses the policy and legislative implications of The Paris Agreement for
Ethiopia.in examining this issue, it discusses the global as well as the national climate challenge
posed currently and the international legal steps taken as a response to this challenge. Climate
change has become an undisputed fact and it is threatening the globe, and this is why states have
tried to come up with international law solutions for the past half a century. The most resent of
these is the 2015 Paris climate agreement under the United Nations Framework Convention on
Climate change. This paper explains the basic structure of and commitments under The Paris
Agreement. The paper argues that there has been a big step taken by Ethiopia towards the
implementation of its policy commitments under The Paris Agreement, although the
practicability of these policy instruments is not yet proved positive. This paper also argues that
there has been no binding legal instrument, in Ethiopia, with regards to climate change in
general and The Paris Agreement in particular and therefore recommends the issuance of such
laws before 2020.the paper also concludes that the existing environmental policy of Ethiopia
seems to be neither exhaustive nor specific of climate change issues under The Paris Agreement
and recommends that its revision under progress becomes considerate of this.