The introduction of “nationally determined contributions” into the Paris Agreement was a risky if necessary strategy. NDCs are risky in that they are a novel device which could well underdeliver the key climate goods of mitigation, adaptation, and finance; but they are necessary given that...

This chapter makes the case that ambitious climate action should central to the “new normal” in Asia, and that law has an important role in delivering it. From the perspective of climate change policy and law, the Covid-19 catastrophe offers the slim possibility that we will “build back...

Carbon border adjustments raise fears amongst both the community of climate/international environmental lawyers and trade lawyers. To the latter they risk taking the form of unjustifiable barriers to trade and may sit uneasily with the body of WTO law concerning trade and the environment. To the...