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Non-Regression in International Environmental Law

Non-Regression in International Environmental Law

Author: Markus Vordermayer-Riemer
Publisher: Intersentia Publishers
ISBN: 9781780689852
Published In: December 2020
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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The book analyses the emerging concept of ‘non-regression’ as a novel legal principle of international environmental law. In order to do so, it traces the development of non-regression in the framework of international human rights law and provides an examination of the respective jurisprudence under universal and regional human rights instruments. These are then compared to closely-related normative concepts in the framework of international environmental law, including the non-regression concepts of the Paris Climate Change Agreement and biodiversity-related agreements such as the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands and the Bonn Convention on Migratory Species. The book advocates a novel usage of comparative law methods in order to allow for fruitful interactions between human rights and international environmental law.

Non-regression in International Environmental Law is an important contribution to the development of international environmental law that offers a fresh perspective on the relationship between human rights and international environmental law.

Introduction

Markus Vordermayer-Riemer

PART I. Progressivity and Non-Regression in International Human Rights Law: Going up on the Escalator

Chapter 1. The Sources and the Interpretation of International Human Rights Law

Chapter 2. The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Chapter 3. Regional Human Rights Regimes

PART II. Progressive Obligations and Non-Regression in Environmental Treaty Regimes: Going up the Down Escalator

Chapter 4. The Sources and the Interpretation of International Environmental Law

Chapter 5. The Climate Change Regime: Progress and Non-Regression in the Face of a 'Super-Wicked Problem'

Chapter 6. Environmental Agreements Focusing on the Conservation of Biodiversity

PART III. Non-Regression and the Promises of Comparative International Law

Chapter 7. Non-Regression as a Free-Standing Principle of International Environmental Law?