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International Organisations, Climate Change Expectations, and the Reality of Institutionalisation – An Analysis of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC...
Menkes, Jerzy; Menkes, Marcin - 2012
Environmental protection constitutes arguably the most important field in international law, where common cause requires adjustment of the international cooperation paradigm based upon the sovereign equality of States. Corrective measures and differentiation of treatment are required, as...
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Border carbon adjustment and international trade : a literature review
Condon, Madison; Ignaciuk, Adriana M. - 2013
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010230663
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Alternative Architecture for Climate Change - Major Economies
Leal-Arcas, Rafael - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013092685
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The Future of the UNFCCC : Adaptation and Institutional Rebirth for the International Climate Convention
Carlarne, Cinnamon Piñon - 2014
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013065435
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Climate Change, Food Security, and Agrobiodiversity : Toward a Just, Resilient, and Sustainable Food System
Gonzalez, Carmen G. - 2014
resulted in an unprecedented erosion of agrobiodiversity that renders the world's food supply vulnerable to catastrophic crop …, reducing the productivity of the world's fisheries, and placing pressure on scarce water resources. Furthermore, the climate … Agriculture Organization reports that the number of chronically undernourished people in the world reached a peak of 1.02 billion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013068619
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Reflections on a Problem of Climate Justice : Climate Change and the Rights of States in a Minimalist International Legal Order
Carlson, Jonathan C. - 2014
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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013070455
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International Environmental Law, Climate Change, and Intergenerational Justice (Executive Summary and Background Paper)
Carlson, Jonathan C. - 2014
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013070456
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Water Scarcity, Conflict, and Security in a Climate Change World : Challenges and Opportunities for International Law and Policy
Eckstein, Gabriel - 2014
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071047
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State Responsibility for Human Rights Violations Associated with Climate Change
Wewerinke-Singh, Margaretha - 2017
While there is widespread agreement that climate change has negative implications for the enjoyment of human rights, it remains unclear in what circumstances State action associated with climate change amounts to a human rights violation. To unpack this question, this chapter analyses how the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012963532
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Sustainable Standard-Setting, Climate Change and the TBT Agreement
Delimatsis, Panos - 2016
The increased importance of environmental protection led to the introduction of sustainability-related criteria in standard-setting practices. A discomfort with the functioning, working methods and certain rigidities of the global standardizing bodies such as the ISO led to a mushrooming of a...
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