In celebration of the upcoming Blog Action Day on the topic of climate change, International Law Observer is glad to announce a guest post from Professor Graciela Chichilnisky, professor of Economics and in Mathematical Statistics of Columbia University. Professor Chichilnisky has worked extensively in the Kyoto Protocol process, creating and designing the concept of the carbon market. She has worked closely with negotiators of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and functioned as a lead author of the Intergovernamental Panel on Climate Change, inter alia authoring the Protocol language that led to the creation of the carbon market.…