ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces the Comprehensive Integrity Framework as it applies to institutions, and has employed that framework to map the key factors and concepts at work in the global carbon integrity system, including reference to the global integrity regime and to one of its sub-institutions. It defines a number of key terms, including the Public Institutional Justification (PIJ), consistency-integrity, coherence-integrity and context-integrity. An institution has comprehensive-integrity if its activities, values and ethics, internal organization and external relations accord with its PIJ. Social values outside the institution can also impact upon the institution's selection of its PIJ and its capacity to live up its PIJ. The integrity system is therefore constituted by the combination of the institution's coherence-integrity and context-integrity. The framework to the global climate regime complex as a whole, framed around the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the framework in analysing one illustrative sub-institution nested within the UNFCCC the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM).
