Climate change has become the hottest environmental debate in decades. It could also go down as the dirtiest — and not just politically. As legislators, regulators, pundits, and stakeholders debate the question of whether or not to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, the regulatory uncertainty...

To provide a model for assessing the current and likely responses to climate change risks, this Article considers two of worst flood disasters in American history and applies the same rationale to critical climate change issues facing the nation today. After providing a background on climate...

There is currently a consensus amongst the political establishment - and amongst the intellectual communities that feed into it - that detailed and wide-ranging government intervention is necessary to combat the effects of climate change. This monograph challenges that consensus. The authors...

Emissions trading has emerged as the major policy approach for addressing climate change, as evidenced by programs and proposals in the Australia, Europe, the United States, and elsewhere. A host of choices need to be made to design and implement a greenhouse gas emissions trading program,...

In the spring of 2007, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Massachusetts v. EPA that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) must promulgate automobile tailpipe greenhouse gas emission standards under Section 202 of the Clean Air Act (CAA). American environmentalists hailed the Supreme...

The United States is awakening to the urgency of the climate crisis; and Congress is poised to respond with a cap-and-trade approach meant to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through market mechanisms. A pure cap-and-trade approach, however, raises significant and underappreciated environmental...

This paper aims to launch a debate as whether and how provisions with regard to the responsibility of present polluters for future damage should be considered within the applicable regulations. The examination focuses on the European legal framework for climate protection, and gives some...

Climate cooperation increasingly looks like individuals reaching out beyond traditional interactions to expand new networks, work with others to spot patterns, and take initiative to learn new complex systems; adapt these shared insights into new solutions; develop empathy, patience, and...

This book is unique in that it uses trade as a tool to move the climate agenda forward, by presenting the following two new approaches to climate change mitigation: 1) a bottom-up approach to climate change and 2) using regional trade agreements (RTAs) to promote climate change mitigation. The...

Climate change in Malaysia has seen the rise in sea levels, the occurrence of floods and landslides, coastal and land erosion, drought, forest fires and haze. Malaysia signed the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (‘UNFCC’) in 1993 and ratified it in 1994. Malaysia also...