Adjudicating Climate Change (eBook, ePUB)

State, National, and International Approaches
Redaktion: Burns, William C. G.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Courts have emerged as a crucial battleground in efforts to regulate climate change. Over the past several years, tribunals at every level of government around the world have seen claims regarding greenhouse gas emissions and impacts. These cases rely on diverse legal theories, but all focus on government regulation of climate change or the actions of major corporate emitters. This book explores climate actions in state and national courts, as well as international tribunals, in order to explain their regulatory significance. It demonstrates the role that these cases play in broader debates over climate policy and argues that they serve as an important force in pressuring governments and emitters to address this crucial problem. As law firms and public interest organizations increasingly develop climate practice areas, the book serves as a crucial resource for practitioners, policymakers and academics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juli 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511698798
• Artikelnr.: 52923240

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Peter E. Roderick; 1. Introduction: the exigencies that drive
potential causes of action for climate change William C. G. Burns and Hari
M. Osofsky; Part I. Subnational Case Studies: 2. State action as political
voice in climate change policy: the Minnesota environmental cost valuation
regulation Stephanie Stern; 3. Limiting climate change at the coal mine
Lesley K. McAllister; 4. Cities, land use, and the global commons: genesis
and the urban politics of climate change Katherine Trisolini and Jonathan
Zasloff; 5. Atmospheric trust litigation Mary Christina Wood; Part II.
National Case Studies: 6. The intersection of scale, science, and law in
Massachusetts v. EPA Hari M. Osofsky; 7. Biodiversity, global warming, and
the United States Endangered Species Act: the role of domestic wildlife law
in addressing greenhouse gas emissions Brendan R. Cummings and Kassie R.
Siegel; 8. An emerging human right to security from climate change: the
case against gas flaring in Nigeria Amy Sinden; 9. Tort-based climate
litigation David A. Grossman; 10. Insurance and climate change litigation
Jeffrey W. Stempel; Part III. Supranational Case Studies: 11. The world
heritage convention and climate change: the case for a climate-change
mitigation strategy beyond the Kyoto protocol Erica J. Thorson; 12. The
Inuit petition as a bridge? Beyond dialectics of climate change and
indigenous peoples' rights Hari M. Osofsky; 13. Bringing climate change
claims to the accountability mechanisms of international financial
institutions Jennifer Gleason and David B. Hunter; 14. Potential causes of
action for climate change impacts under the United Nations Fish Stock
Agreement William C. G. Burns; 15. Climate change litigation: opening the
door to the international court of justice Andrew Strauss; 16. The
implications of climate change litigation: litigation for international
environmental law-making David B. Hunter; 17. Conclusion: adjudicating
climate change across scales Hari M. Osofsky.