International Climate Change Law
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| Anteprima |
This
textbook, by three experts in the field, provides a comprehensive
overview of international climate change law. Climate change is one of
the fundamental challenges facing the world today, and is the cause of
significant international concern. In response, states have created an
international climate regime. The treaties that comprise the regime -
the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the 1997
Kyoto Protocol and the 2015 Paris Agreement establish a system of
governance to address climate change and its impacts. This book provides
a clear analytical guide to the climate regime, as well as other
relevant international legal rules. 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, the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement. It
analyses the principles and obligations that underpin the climate
regime, as well as the elaborate institutional and governance
architecture that has been created at successive international
conferences to develop commitments and promote transparency and
compliance. The final two chapters address the polycentric nature of
international climate change law, as well as the intersections of
international climate change law with other areas of international
regulation. This book is an essential introduction to international
climate change law for students, scholars and negotiators.
