Climate Change and the Law Ius Gentium Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice

__Climate Change and the Law__ is the first scholarly effort to systematically address doctrinal issues related to climate law as an emergent legal discipline. It assembles some of the most recognized experts in the field to identify relevant trends and common themes from a variety of geographic and professional perspectives. In a remarkably short time span, climate change has become deeply embedded in important areas of the law. As a global challenge calling for collective action, climate change has elicited substantial rulemaking at the international plane, percolating through the broader legal system to the regional, national and local levels. More than other areas of law, the normative and practical framework dedicated to climate change has embraced new instruments and softened traditional boundaries between formal and informal, public and private, substantive and procedural; so ubiquitous is the reach of relevant rules nowadays that scholars routinely devote attention to the intersection of climate change and more established fields of legal study, such as international trade law. __Climate Change and the Law__ explores the rich diversity of international, regional, national, sub-national and transnational legal responses to climate change. Is climate law emerging as a new legal discipline? If so, what shared objectives and concepts define it? How does climate law relate to other areas of law? Such questions lie at the heart of this new book, whose thirty chapters cover doctrinal questions as well as a range of thematic and regional case studies. As Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), states in her preface, these chapters collectively provide a “review of the emergence of a new discipline, its core principles and legal techniques, and its relationship and potential interaction with other disciplines.” Introduction. Climate Change And The Law / Kati Kulovesi, Michael Mehling, And Erkki J. Hollo -- Implementing Climate Governance : Instrument Choice And Interaction / Michael Mehling -- Exploring The Landscape Of Climate Law And Scholarship : Two Emerging Trends / Kati Kulovesi -- Climate Change And Justice : Perspectives Of Legal Theory / Felix Ekardt -- Foundations Of International Climate Law : Objectives, Principles And Methods / Rowena Maguire -- Alternative Venues Of Climate Cooperation : An Institutional Perspective / Camilla Bausch And Michael Mehling -- Analyzing Soft Law And Hard Law In Climate Change / Antto Vihma -- Compliance And Enforcement In The Climate Change Regime / Meinhard Doelle -- The New Framework For Climate Finance Under The United Nations Framework Convention On Climate Change : A Breakthrough Or An Empty Promise? / Yulia Yamineva And Kati Kulovesi. Climate Justice : The Clean Development Of Mechanism As A Case Study / Tomilola Eni-ibukun -- Legal Aspects Of Climate Change Adaptation / Jonathan Verschuuren -- Climate Change And Human Rights / Timo Koivurova, Sébastien Duyck, And Leena Heinämäki -- Managing The Fragmentation Of International Climate Law / Harro Van Asselt -- No Need To Reinvent The Wheel For A Human Rights-based Approach To Tackling Climate Change : The Contribution Of International Biodiversity Law / Elisa Morgera -- The Role Of Redd In The Harmonisation Of Overlapping International Obligations / Annalisa Savaresi -- Climate Change And Trade : At The Intersection Of Two International Legal Regimes / Kati Kulovesi -- Climate Law And Geoengineering / Ralph Bodle -- Climate Law In The United States : Facing Structural And Procedural Limitations / Michael Mehling And David John Frenkil -- Canada And The Kyoto Protocol : An Aesop Fable / Jane Matthews Glenn And José Otero -- Climate Law And Policy In The European Union : Accidental Success Or Deliberate Leadership? / Michael Mehling, Kati Kulovesi, And Javier De Cendra -- Climate Law In Germany / Felix Ekardt -- Climate Law In The United Kingdom / Colin T. Reid -- Climate Law And Policy In Russia : A Peasant Needs Thunder To Cross Himself And Wonder / Yulia Yamineva -- Australia : From No Regrets To A Clean Energy Future? / Sharon Mascher And David Hodgkinson -- Climate Law And Policy In Japan / Hitomi Kimura -- Sustainable Development And Climate Policy And Law In China / Christopher Tung -- India's Evolving Climate Change Strategy / Patodia Rastogi -- Climate Change Responses In South Africa / Michael Kidd And Ed Couzens -- Climate Change Policy And Legislation In Brazil / Haroldo Machado-filho -- Climate Law In Latin American Countries / Soledad Aguilar And Eugenia Recio. Erkki J. Hollo, Kati Kulovesi, Michael Mehling, Editors. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Front Matter....Pages i-xxi Introduction: Climate Change and the Law....Pages 1-8 Front Matter....Pages 9-9 Implementing Climate Governance: Instrument Choice and Interaction....Pages 11-30 Exploring the Landscape of Climate Law and Scholarship: Two Emerging Trends....Pages 31-62 Climate Change and Justice: Perspectives of Legal Theory....Pages 63-79 Front Matter....Pages 81-81 Foundations of International Climate Law: Objectives, Principles and Methods....Pages 83-110 Alternative Venues of Climate Cooperation: An Institutional Perspective....Pages 111-141 Analyzing Soft Law and Hard Law in Climate Change....Pages 143-164 Compliance and Enforcement in the Climate Change Regime....Pages 165-188 Front Matter....Pages 189-189 The New Framework for Climate Finance Under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change: A Breakthrough or an Empty Promise?....Pages 191-223 Climate Justice: The Clean Development Mechanism as a Case Study....Pages 225-256 Legal Aspects of Climate Change Adaptation....Pages 257-285 Climate Change and Human Rights....Pages 287-325 Front Matter....Pages 327-327 Managing the Fragmentation of International Climate Law....Pages 329-357 No Need to Reinvent the Wheel for a Human Rights-Based Approach to Tackling Climate Change: The Contribution of International Biodiversity Law....Pages 359-390 The Role of REDD in the Harmonisation of Overlapping International Obligations....Pages 391-418 Climate Change and Trade: At the Intersection of Two International Legal Regimes....Pages 419-445 Climate Law and Geoengineering....Pages 447-470 Front Matter....Pages 471-471 Climate Law in the United States: Facing Structural and Procedural Limitations....Pages 473-487 Canada and the Kyoto Protocol: An Aesop Fable....Pages 489-507 Climate Law and Policy in the European Union: Accidental Success or Deliberate Leadership?....Pages 509-522 Front Matter....Pages 471-471 Climate Law in Germany....Pages 523-536 Climate Law in the United Kingdom....Pages 537-549 Climate Law and Policy in Russia: A Peasant Needs Thunder to Cross Himself and Wonder....Pages 551-566 Australia: From “No Regrets” to a Clean Energy Future?....Pages 567-584 Climate Law and Policy in Japan....Pages 585-595 Sustainable Development and Climate Policy and Law in China....Pages 597-603 India’s Evolving Climate Change Strategy....Pages 605-618 Climate Change Responses in South Africa....Pages 619-638 Climate Change Policy and Legislation in Brazil....Pages 639-651 Climate Law in Latin American Countries....Pages 653-678 Back Matter....Pages 679-693 This text offers a comprehensive and up to date presentation of climate and related energy law. It systematically addresses doctrinal issues related to climate law as an emergent legal discipline, and assembles some of the most recognized experts in the field to identify relevant trends and common themes from a variety of geographic and professional perspectives The first scholarly effort to offer a systematic examination of doctrinal issues in climate law, this book explores the diverse international, regional, national, sub-national and transnational legal responses to climate change. Includes regional case studies.