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An 'Act of God'? Rethinking Contractual Impracticability in an Era of Anthropogenic Climate Change
Dellinger, Myanna F. - 2016
to reach a sufficiently detailed antecedent agreement on the issue.The law is never static. It must reflect real world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012983504
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The CAFO Hothouse : Climate Change, Industrial Agriculture and the Law
Cassuto, David N. - 2014
The issue of climate change has at long last made its way into mainstream policy discussions in the United States. However, the focus both in the United States and internationally has been on reducing energy production and transportation emissions. This has led the media, policy makers and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014193208
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Global Warming : A Second Coming for International Law?
Badrinarayana, Deepa - 2010
Currently, there are no adequate mechanisms under international law to balance the competing tensions climate change presents to state sovereignty. On one hand, climate change threatens state sovereignty because the catastrophic loss of life and property of millions of people would deprive...
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Development and globalisation : daring to think differently
Tandon, Yashpal - 2009 - 2nd ed.
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Climate Change, Carbon Sequestration, and Property Rights
Wilson, Elizabeth J.; Klass, Alexandra B. - 2014
This Article considers the role of property rights in efforts to sequester underground hundreds of millions of tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) per year from power plants and other industrial facilities in order to mitigate climate change. This technology, known as carbon capture and sequestration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014209409
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Central Banks and Climate Change : Mission Impossible?
Cullen, Jay - 2022
There is growing presumption that central banks have a significant role to play in addressing environmental challenges, especially climate change. This article explains, on the basis of both theoretical and empirical evidence, that attempting to use existing central bank powers to tackle climate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014076535
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Liability for Climate Damage and Shipping
McGaughey, Ewan - 2021
How can the global shipping industry play its part in the fight to stop climate damage? Shipping accounts for around 90% of all international trade, and for 2.5% to 4% of all global greenhouse gas emissions, which damage the Earth’s climate. The shipping industry is also heavily concentrated....
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Fiddling as the World Burns : How Climate Change Urgently Requires a Paradigm Shift in the Permitting of Renewable Energy Projects
Thaler, Jeff - 2015
offshore wind power as a case study, this article demonstrates how, in an increasingly carbon-constrained world, our existing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014165569
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Cooling Infrastructure, Cooling Security, and a Warming World
Dana, David A. - 2023
cooling infrastructure currently in place in the United States (and elsewhere) was developed for a world before climate change … and the increase in intensity and geographic scope of heat waves. That infrastructure must be adapted to a world where … challenges of adapting cooling infrastructure to a warming world is important for U.S. national security, among other goals …
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Intellectual property rights and the transfer of climate change technologies : issues, challenges, and way forward
Abdel Latif, Ahmed - In: Climate policy 15 (2015) 1, pp. 103-126
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