Climate Change and the Law

Publication: Book
Citation: Hollo, Erkki J., Kati Kulovesi and Michael Mehling (eds.) 2013: Climate Change and the Law (Ius Gentium. Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice 21). Berlin: Springer.

20 years after the adoption of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the international climate regime has evolved into a highly specialized area of legal expertise. This book explores the relation of climate and law, highlighting international climate law as an emerging discipline. Not only are cross-cutting and sectoral issues examined, but also comparative climate law plays an important role.

Employees of Ecologic Institute have contributed the following chapters:

"Implementing Climate Governance: Instrument Choice and Interaction" (Michael Mehling)
"Alternative Venues of Climate Cooperation: An Institutional Perspective" (Camilla Bausch, Michael Mehling)
"Climate Law and Geoengineering" (Ralph Bodle)
"Climate Law in the United States: Facing Structural and Procedural Limitations" (Michael Mehling et al.)
"Climate Law and Policy in the European Union: Accidental Success or Deliberate Leadership?" (Michael Mehling et al.)

Single chapters as well as the whole book, which has been edited by Erkki J. Hollo, Kati Kulovesi and Ecologic Institute's Michael Mehling, can be purchased on the publisher's website at the price of 142,79€.

Language: English
Authorship: Prof. Dr. Michael Mehling, LLM

Dr. Camilla Bausch

Dr. Ralph Bodle, LLM
Published in: Series:: Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice, Vol. 21
Published by: Springer-Verlag, Germany
Year: 2013
Dimension: 693 pp.
ISBN: 978-94-007-5439-3 (Print) 978-94-007-5440-9 (Online)
ISSN: 1534-6781
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-5440-9
Table of contents: Click to show full table of contents

1. Introduction: Climate Change and the Law

Part I: Climate Laws as an Emerging Discipline
2. Implementing Climate Governance: Instrument Choice and Interaction
3. Exploring the Landscape of Climate Law and Scholarship: Two Emerging Trends
4. Climate Change and Justice: Perspectives of Legal Theory

Part II: International Climate Law - Architecture and Institutions
5. Foundations of International Climate Law: Objectives, Principles and Methods
6. Alternative Venues of Climate Cooperation: An Institutional Perspective
7. Analyzing Soft Law and Hard Law in Climate Change
8. Compliance and Enforcement in the Climate Change Regime

Part III: International Climate Law - Cross-Cutting Issues
9. The New Framework for Climate Finance Under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change: A Breakthrough or an Empty Promise?
10. Climate Justice: The Clean Development Mechanism as a Case Study
11. Legal Aspects of Climate Change Adaptation
12. Climate Change and Human Rights

Part IV: International Climate Law - Sectoral Issues
13. Managing the Fragmentation of International Climate Law
14. No Need to Reinvent the Wheel for a Human Rights-Based Approach to Tackling Climate Change: The Contribution of International Biodiversity Law
15. The Role of REDD in the Harmonisation of Overlapping International Obligations
16. Climate Change and Trade: At the Intersection of Two International Legal Regimes
17. Climate Law and Geoengineering

Part V: Comparative Climate Law
18. Climate Law in the United States: Facing Structural and Procedural Limitations
19. Canada and the Kyoto Protocol: An Aesop Fable
20. Climate Law and Policy in the European Union: Accidental Success or Deliberate Leadership?
21. Climate Law in Germany
22. Climate Law in the United Kingdom
23. Climate Law and Policy in Russia: A Peasant Needs Thunder to Cross Himself and Wonder
24. Australia: From "No Regrets" to a Clean Energy Future
25. Climate Law and Policy in Japan
26. Sustainable Development, Climate Policy and Law in China
27. India's Evolving Climate Change Strategy
28. Climate Change Responses in South Africa
29. Climate Change Policy and Legislation in Brazil
30. Climate Law in Latin American Countries

Index
Keywords: Adaptation

Climate

climate change, governance, justice, legal, international cooperation, climate change regime, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, UNFCCC, Clean Development Mechanism, CDM, adaptation, human rights, geoengineering, kyoto protocol

U.S.A., Canada, United Kingdom, Russia, Australia, Japan, China, India, South Africa, Brazil, Latin America, Germany, EU, European Union, UN, United Nations