3.6 Law Relating to Climate Change

The climate's regime (the law's biggest building): the UNFCCC (1992) — the objective (the dangerous interference's prevention); the CBDR's architecture; the Annex structure → the Kyoto Protocol (1997) — the binding targets-and-timetable (the developed's quantitative cuts); the market mechanisms (the CDM — Nepal's carbon-market interest; the emissions trading) → the Paris Agreement (2015) — the bottom-up architecture (the nationally-determined contributions — the NDCs); the 1.5-degree ambition; the adaptation-and-loss-damage machinery; the transparency framework; the global stocktake. The supporting regimes: the IPCC's science (the assessments as the law's factual base); the climate-finance institutions (the GCF; the adaptation funds); the ozone family (the Vienna Convention 1985 + the Montreal Protocol 1987 — the CFCs' phase-out: the environment's success-story classic; the Kigali Amendment's HFC faces); the climate-litigation era (the Urgenda-type line; the Padam Bahadur Shrestha case as Nepal's contribution — Unit 6).