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The article focuses on the potential impacts of climate change on straddling fish stocks and highly migratory species and the potential for pursuing causes of action under the UN Fish Stocks Agreement. The article also assesses potential barriers to such causes of action
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trade rules, specifically the operation of the World Trade Organization("WTO") agreements, hinder international climate …
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the world. The papers examine the evolution of climate-related cases, the scope of such cases and the varying grounds on …
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economies of the world contemplating unilateral action to restrict their carbon emissions (while continuing to pursue co … counterbalanced by increased emissions elsewhere in the world — has also arisen. Various adjustments have been proposed, both in the …
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On the twentieth anniversary of the negotiation of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the fifteenth anniversary of the negotiation of the Kyoto Protocol to the UNFCCC, it is time for the global community to reflect on the future of our system of global climate...
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, reducing the productivity of the world's fisheries, and placing pressure on scarce water resources. Furthermore, the climate … resulted in an unprecedented erosion of agrobiodiversity that renders the world's food supply vulnerable to catastrophic crop … Agriculture Organization reports that the number of chronically undernourished people in the world reached a peak of 1.02 billion …
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As the international community deals with climate change over the next several decades, it must face the question whether states that are less at risk from climate change (or that might benefit from it) have any obligation of justice to participate in efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions....
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This background paper to the Climate Legacy Initiative project assesses whether existing international environmental law is adequate to address the challenge of global climate change. It considers both current treaty rules governing climate change and customary principles of international...
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Although climate change is expected to have major consequences that affect the global environment in its broadest sense, one of the earliest and most direct impacts will be on Earth's fresh water systems. While some regions will experience increased precipitation, others will suffer serious...
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