Benoit Mayer

The International Law on Climate Change

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Produktbeschreibung

A comprehensive overview of the international law on climate change. This textbook is accessible to both undergraduate and graduate students studying climate, environmental or international law, and also suitable as a resource material for graduate students and scholars in the field.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 208mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 946g
• ISBN-13: 9781108419871
• ISBN-10: 1108419879
• Artikelnr.: 50441258

Autorenporträt

Benoit Mayer is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Law at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, where he teaches international law and environmental law. His research on the international law on climate change has been published in leading journals including the European Journal of International Law, the Asian Journal of International Law, Transnational Environmental Law and Climatic Change.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. The rationale for international action on climate change
3. The UNFCCC regime, from Rio to Paris
4. Relevant developments in other regimes
5. Relevant norms of general international law
6. Differentiation
7. International action on climate change mitigation
8. Flexibility mechanisms
9. Geoengineering
10. International action on climate change adaptation
11. Loss and damage
12. International support
13. Ambition and compliance
14. Adjudication
15. Non-state actors
16. International law in times of climate change.