The international law on climate change / Benoît Mayer.
Global climate change is a topic of continuously growing interest. As more international treaties come into force, media coverage has increased and many universities are now starting to conduct courses specifically on climate change laws and policies. This textbook provides a survey of the internati...
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Table of Contents:
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations and acronyms
- Table of authorities
- Introduction. The science of climate change
- Climate change laws and policies
- The international law on climate change
- Outline of the book
- The rationale for international action on climate change. The role of science
- The role of economics
- Moral perspectives
- Psychological, social and political obstacles
- Conclusion
- The UNFCCC regime, from Rio to Paris. The UNFCCC
- The Kyoto Protocol
- The 2020 horizon
- The Paris agreement
- Conclusion
- Relevant developments in other regimes. The regime on the protection of the ozone layer
- International transportation
- Other pioneering initiatives on climate change mitigation
- Mainstreaming adaption concerns in relevant international regimes
- Conclusion
- Relevant norms of general international law. The no-harm principle
- Other principles of international environmental law
- International human rights law
- Responsibility of states for internationally wrongful acts
- Liability of states for transboundary harm arising out of hazardous activities
- The application of general international law
- Conclusion
- Differentiation. Grounds for differentiation
- Differentiation in international negotiations
- Conclusion
- International action on climate change mitigation. State obligations under general international law
- Action on climate change mitigation under the UNFCCC regime
- Action on climate change mitigation under other treaty regimes
- An overview of implementation measures
- Conclusion
- Flexibility mechanisms. Joint implementation under the UN framework convention on climate change
- Flexibility mechanisms under the Kyoto Protocol
- Flexibility mechnisms under the Doha amendment and Cancún agreements
- An assessment of flexibility mechanisms
- Conclusion
- Geoengineering. The precedent of weather modification techniques
- Geoengineering options
- Regulating geoengineering
- Conclusion
- International action on climate change adaption. The concept of adaption
- Developments within the UNFCCC regime
- Relevant developments in other international regimes
- Emerging principles
- Conclusion
- Loss and damage. The concept of loss and damage
- Reparations under general international law
- The UNFCCC workstream on loss and damage
- Possible ways forward
- International support. The rationales for international support for climate action
- The general framework on international support for climate actions
- REDD+ An emerging vision of international support for climate action
- Ambition and compliance. The general architecture of international climate agreements
- Addressing the gap in state conduct
- Addressing the gap in national commitments
- Addressing the gap in collective objectives
- Conclusion
- Adjudication. International adjudication
- Domestic adjudication
- Conclusion
- Non-state actors. Participation in the making of international law on climate change
- Voluntary commitments
- Conclusion
- International law in times of climate change. Links with other aspects of the international law on sustainable development
- Changes in general international law
- Changes to our understanding of international law
- Conclusion
- References
- Index.