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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 …

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Alternative Architecture for Climate Change - Major Economies

Leal-Arcas, Rafael - 2013

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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...

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Climate Change, Food Security, and Agrobiodiversity : Toward a Just, Resilient, and Sustainable Food System

Gonzalez, Carmen G. - 2014

, reducing the productivity of the world's fisheries, and placing pressure on scarce water resources. Furthermore, the climate … resulted in an unprecedented erosion of agrobiodiversity that renders the world's food supply vulnerable to catastrophic crop … Agriculture Organization reports that the number of chronically undernourished people in the world reached a peak of 1.02 billion …

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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....

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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...

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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...

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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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The Hard Choice for Soft Commitments in the Climate Change Regime

Hunter, David B. - 2020

This chapter (Chapter 7 of Advocating Social Change through International Law) explores the evolution of the commitments to reduce greenhouse gases under the global climate change regime and the associated struggle with whether these mitigation commitments should be binding. Although in theory...

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Regulating the Climate

Tvarnoe, Christina D. - 2020

This paper discusses the UN and EU regulations on the climate change in regard to CO2 emission in a perspective of the “Tragedy of the Commons”. The paper presents the objectives of the Rio Convention UNDCCC, the Kyoto Protocol, the Paris Agreement and the EU CO2 trading system. The main...

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