Sustainable finance is simply the alignment of the financial system with principles of sustainability. Investments in climate change mitigation and reduction in greenhouse gases emisiions constitute the largest number of sustainable finance investments. A good number of countries have set up...

For their further existence and well-being, the globe and humankind rely on the climate and its stability, which is impacted by greenhouse gas emission all over the globe. In general public debate and in social sciences terminology, the climate undoubtedly is seen as a global common which is in...

This article examines whether a greenhouse gas emissions trading scheme has the potential to bring parties into conflict with the WTO provisions in dealing with the initial allocation of permits, non-compliance with emissions targets, emissions trading system enlargement, and trade measures...

As global climate change and its adverse effects have caused serious consequences, the Chinese Government is speeding up on energy saving and emissions reductions, becoming much more active on the climate and environment front. According to the work schedule of the Ministry of Finance,...

This book chapter addresses the use of traditional regulation to ameliorate climate disruption, revealing that traditional regulation has played a significant role. It defines traditional regulation as encompassing performance standards, work practice standards, and phase-outs of dangerous...

This article explores recent climate policy developments in China, the United States (US), and the European Union (EU), as well as their implications for a new global climate regime, expected in December 2015 in Paris. The road to Paris is marked by a shift from global efforts to domestic...

In July 2014, Australia abolished the Australian carbon pricing mechanism introduced in 2011. In comparison, the EU emissions trading scheme has been up and running since 2005 despite critical challenges at various junctures. What explains the quick unravelling of the former and the...

Human activities are gradually driving global change in population, consumption, technology, economic advances, and organization of human societies. These changes are likely to impact on the ecosystems, human systems, and urban systems which should challenge humanity to review or rethink...

Climate change threatens to displace as many as 200 million people internally and across national borders by the middle of the twenty-first century. Indigenous peoples are among the most vulnerable to these changes. With the loss of their village rapidly approaching, the residents of the Native...

This essay presents a legal device by which local governments can put a price on climate emissions and loss of resiliency generated by new real estate development. Local governments commonly impose fees, a type of monetary exaction, on new development to offset public costs that such development...