International Climate Change Law

Written by three experts in the field, this text 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.International Climate Change Law 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.KEY FEATURESComprehensive overview of international climate change law offering a perfect introduction to the field for studentsAssesses all of the relevant international instruments and conventions dealing with climate changeExplores the intersections between climate change law and human rights law, migration law, and trade lawProvides detailed footnotes and a select bibliography offering references to wider academic sources for advanced study and researchThis title is available as an eBook. Visit VitalSource for more information or to purchase.

Author Biography

Daniel Bodansky is a Foundation Professor at the Sandra Day O’Conner College of Law and Senior Sustainability Scholar at the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability at Arizona State University. Bodansky is an expert on international environmental law. He has worked extensively on the international climate change negotiations, including as a senior negotiator in the US Department of State and as a consultant to the UN climate change secretariat and the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions. He co-edited the Oxford Handbook of International Environmental Law, and is the author of the Art and Craft of International Environmental Law, which was awarded the 2011 Harold and Margaret Sprout Award from the International Studies Association as the best book published that year in the field of international environmental politics.

Jutta Brunnée is a Professor of Law and Metcalf Chair in Environmental Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto. Writing in the areas of public international law and international environmental law, she is co-author of Legitimacy and Legality in International Law: An Interactional Account, which was awarded the American Society of International Laws 2011 Certificate of Merit for preeminent contribution to creative scholarship. She is co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of International Environmental Law, Promoting Compliance in the Emerging Climate Regime, Implementation of International Environmental Law, and Climate Change Liability: Transnational Law and Practice. As Scholar-in-Residence in the Legal Bureau of the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Brunnée advised, inter alia, on matters under the Biodiversity and Climate Change Conventions. She was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2013.

Lavanya Rajamani is a Professor of International Environmental Law, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, and Yamani Fellow in Public International Law, St Peter’s College, Oxford. She was previously Professor at the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi. Rajamani specializes in international climate change law, and has worked extensively on the international climate change negotiations. Among other roles, she has served as a consultant to the FCCC Secretariat, as a negotiator for the Alliance of Small Island States, and as a legal adviser to the Chairs of Ad Hoc Working Groups under the FCCC. She was part of the FCCC core drafting and advisory team at the Paris negotiations. She is author of Differential Treatment in International Environmental Law, and co-editor of Promoting Compliance in the Emerging Climate Regime, Implementation of International Environmental Law.