Alexander Zahar is Senior Lecturer at Macquarie Law School, Macquarie University, Australia, where he teaches climate change and environmental law. His research interests include the impact of international climate finance in Southeast Asia.

This is the first book on state compliance that treats the UNFCCC, Kyoto Protocol, and their subordinate institutions as case studies in new international trends regarding state compliance. Drawing on a wide range of sources, from UNFCCC decisions to national-court judgements, this book clarifies the multiple layers of state compliance within the evolving international and transnational climate change regime. It provides a conceptual framework and mode of evaluation of the regulatory elements that have evolved to date. It comments on the current fragmentation (under the Bali Roadmap process) and possible future unification of accountability and enforcement elements (under the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action).

1. Law, Compliance and the Climate Change Regime 2. State Compliance with Rules on National Reporting and Assessment 3. Facilitation and Enforcement of Rules Through the Kyoto Protocol's Compliance Committee 4. State Compliance with Emission-Limitation Obligations 5. Financial Support for Mitigation Actions in Developing Countries 6. Climate Law and 'Optional' Mitigation Mechanisms 7. Compliance Lessons from the Climate Change Regime