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Identifying options for a new international climate regime Arising from the Durban Platform for enhanced action / Ottmar Edenhofer,Christian Flachsland, Robert Stavins, and Robert Stowe. Harvard Project on Climate Agreements, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School and Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change, October 2013, 26 p.  (Policy Brief)http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/files/hpca-mcc-brief-2013.pdfThis Issue Brief  examines two major dimensions of a possible 2015 agreement: 1) The degree to which the agreement reflects "top-down" direction to national governments, "bottom-up" policy initiatives from national governments—or both; and 2) How the new agreement might enable increasing ambition over time with regard to reducing greenhouse-gas emissions, on the part of national governments. (© Belfer Center)