International Climate Change Law

Author: Daniel Bodansky; Jutta Brunnee; Lavanya Rajaman
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199664290

Published In: May 2017
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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Paperback Edition ISBN: 9780199664306

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This textbook, by three experts in the field, provides a comprehensive overview of the legal instruments and sources that govern the international response to climate change. Climate change is one of the fundamental challenges facing the world today, and is the cause of signficiant international concern. In response, states have created a legal regime, albeit a contested one, to address climate change and its impacts. The legal texts that comprise the climate regime - the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, 1992, and its Kyoto Protocol, 1997 - are in force, have concrete content, and are binding. Resources are in place to facilitate the negotiation process, incentivise emissions reductions, and supervise and enforce compliance with the obligations imposed by these treaties. However, the language used in these international instruments is frequently intentionally vague. This book provides a clear guide to the legal regime applicable to climate change, demonstrating how the terms employed in the relevant instruments and conventions should be interpreted.

The book begins by locating international climate change law within the broader context of international law and international environmental law. It considers the evolution of the international climate change regime, and the process of law-making that has led to it. It examines the key provisions of the Framework Convention and the Kyoto Protocol. It then analyses the principles that form part of the conceptual underpinning of the climate regime, as well as the elaborate institutional and governance architecture that has been created at successive international conferences. This assessment of the contours of the current regime is followed by a chapter devoted to the design of the post-2012 climate change regime, and trends indicated by the climate negotiations. The final two chapters address the relationship of international climate change law to regional and national climate change law, as well as its relationship with other areas of international regulation. This book is an essential introduction for any student and scholar needing to know more about international climate change law.

1. Introduction

2. Setting International Climate Change Law against the Backdrop of International Law & International Environmental Law

3. Law-Making, Texts, Language, and Interpretation

4. Evolution and Architecture of the International Climate Change Regime

5. The Framework Convention on Climate Change, 1992

6. Principles of International Climate Change Law

7. The Kyoto Protocol, 1997

8. Designing the post-2012 International Climate Change Regime

9. Multi-level Governance of Climate Change

10. Mapping the Edge: International Climate Change Law and Other Areas of International Regulation

11. Conclusion - Emerging Trends in International Climate Change Law