Courage, Contributions and Compliance: The Routledge Handbook of Climate Law and Governance recognises calls from the United Nations (UN), the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The elders, and others, for climate justice and urgent action, and convenes insights from leading legal and institutional experts, professors, professionals and early career scholars on emerging climate law and policy challenges, commitments and solutions.The collection explores the role of law and governance in scaling up global responses to climate change and advancing sustainability. Based on careful study of international advances and the full spectrum of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) to the global response to climate change, as submitted by Paris Agreement Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the volume compiles a compelling, coherent and systematic topical account from across diverse legal jurisdictions. Analytical chapters by leading experts, practitioners and scholars close to ongoing climate negotiations explore recent legal and institutional innovations related to climate change which can support implementation and compliance with the Paris Agreement and advance the global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). They highlight ways to raise ambition through law and policy, to reform national legal and institutional arrangements to implement NDCs and to further develop international law and governance in the face of the existential threat of climate change and the world: sustainable development commitments.Presenting a pathway for advancing climate ambition in the coming decades, this book will be of interest to government officials, academics, students, professionals and policy makers working in the area of climate law and governance.
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The book recognises UN calls for urgent action reflected in recent reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, Aug 2021) and convenes insights from leading legal academic experts and professionals on emerging issues in climate law.
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Foreword Acknowledgements Abbreviations List of TreatiesTable of CasesList of Contributors 1 IntroductionMarie-Claire Cordonier Segger, Christina Voigt, Lydia Young and Zunaida Moosa WadiwalaPART I The Challenge of Global Climate Change and Sustainable Development2 The Urgency of Global Response to Climate Change Ayman Cherkaoui and Zunaida Moosa Wadiwala3 Climate Courage, Contributions and Compliance in the Context of the UN Sustainable Development Goals Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger4 The UNFCCC, the Paris Agreement and Legal Obligations for Climate Action Christina Voigt and Lydia YoungPART II Courage in Advancing International Law on Climate Change for Sustainable Development5 Advancing Climate Action in Trade, Investment and Financial Agreements Markus W. Gehring & Emily Morison6 Exploring Nature-Based Solutions to Climate Change in International Law Jorge Cabrera Medaglia & Lydia Young7 Linking International Human Rights Law and Climate Change Sumudu Atapattu 8 Promoting Access to Information, Public Participation and Justice on Climate Change Valentina Durán & Ignacio Sánchez González9 Navigating High Seas Biodiversity and Climate Change Cassie Lumsden, Zhen Sun, and Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger 10 Climate-Induced Migration: Legal and Health Implications Avidan Kent and Maya PrabhuPART III Contributions to Increasing Ambition on Climate Change through Law11 Legal Creativity and Private Financing to Implement the Paris Agreement in the United Kingdom Megan Bowman & Emily Webster12 Scaling up Paris Agreement Implementation through Climate Law in International Water Law Regulations with Special Focus on Europe Alexandra Harrington & Barbara Janusz-Pawletta 13 Law and Governance Contributions to Energy Transitions in Latin America Margarita Nieves-Zárate14 Legal Aspects of Achieving the Just Transitions in Poland Magdalena Stryja, Agnieszka Bielska-Brodziak & Tomasz Pietrzykowski15 Legal and Governance Contributions to Climate Ambition through REDD+ in Francophone African Countries Erick Kassongo 16 Legal Contributions to Climate Action through Oceans and Marine Resources Stewardship in Small Island States Freedom-Kai Phillips, Alexandra Harrington & Elizabeth Nwarueze17 Legal and Governance Challenges for the Implementation of NDCs in Morocco, Jordan and Tunisia Hassan Agouzoul, Afef Hammami-Marrakchi, Abdelnaser Zeyad Hayajneh, Markus W. Gehring & Gwyneth Boone18 Legal Contributions to Incentivising Investment for Paris Agreement Adaptation and Resilience in Ukraine Oleksandr Diachuk, Mariia Stolbova, Markus W. Gehring & Gwyneth Boone19 Legal and Governance Response to Loss & Damage in Bangladesh & Zambia M. Hafijul Islam Khan & Pamela Towela SamboPART IV Compliance and Implementation of the Paris Agreement through International Legal Innovation20 Operationalizing the Paris Agreement Implementation and Compliance Committee (PAICC) Christina Voigt 21 Submitting Mandatory Reports under the Paris Agreement Transparency Framework Christopher Campbell-Duruflé & Raúl Salas Reyes22 Operationalizing Article 6 of the Paris Agreement Michael A. Mehling23 Incentivising International Finance for Net Zero Paris Agreement Implementation Wendy Miles KC & Douglas Leys KC24 Advancing Paris Agreement Alignment in International Financial Institutions Hyfa Azeez, Thomas M. Clark, Vesselina Haralampieva, Christina Pak and Michael Strauss25 Exploring Low Carbon and Energy Efficient Procurement as a Tool for Paris Agreement Implementation Jellie Molino26 Regulating the Disclosure of Climate-Related Finance Risks Professor Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger, Lara Douvartzidis and David Gayle 27 Examining Litigation Aspects of Nationally Determined Contributions Amelia Burnette, Kate McKenzie & Francesco Sindico PART V Conclusions & Future Directions for Climate Law & Governance 28 Achieving Increased Ambition through International Tribunals Rosa M. Fernández Egea & Pau de Vilchez Moragues29 Prioritising Gender Law & Policy Aspects of Climate Action Anusheh Fawad30 Exploring the Potential of the Paris Agreement to Decolonize International Law Mrinalini Shinde31 Addressing Human Mobility in International Law on Climate Change and Beyond Cosmin Corendea & Chhaya Bhardwaj32 Advancing the Legal Research, Capacity and Awareness for Climate Law and Governance Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger, Christina Voigt & Tejas Rao Index
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ISBN
9781032233000
Publisert
2024-11-29
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Routledge
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1040 gr
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246 mm
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174 mm
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U, P, 05, 06
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Engelsk
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Antall sider
434

Biographical note

Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger, PhD (ad eund, Cantab), DPhil (Oxon), MEM (Yale), BCL & LLB (McGill), BA Hons (Carl/UVic) FRSC FRSA WIJA holds the Chair in Sustainable Development Law and Policy at the University of Cambridge, as Law Fellow, Director of Studies and Programme Director in Lucy Cavendish College. She also serves as Senior Director of the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL), Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Climate Law and Governance Initiative and Vice-President of the International Law Association (ILA) of Canada, among others. As former senior legal advisor to the International Development Law Organization, the UNFCCC Presidency and other intergovernmental organizations, treaty bodies and governments, as well as editor/board of several law journals and book series, she has published over 26 books and 160 papers on law, policy and sustainable development including climate change, and is a co-recipient of the Climate Law and Governance Global Leadership Award, as well as laureate of the Justicia Fundamentum Regnorum, the Weeramantry International Justice Award (WIJA) and other distinguished honours.

Christina Voigt, PhD (Oslo), LLM.Env. (Auckland), Rechtswissenschaft (Passau and Munich), is full Professor of Law at the Department of Public and International Law, University of Oslo, Norway, and chair of the IUCN World Commission of Environmental Law and Member of the IUCN Council. Author of numerous academic articles, a monograph, and several edited volumes including Non-Compliance Mechanisms versus International Courts, Research Handbook on REDD+ and International Law and Rule of Law for Nature , she holds the inaugural Junior Scholarship Prize of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law among other distinguished awards and honours. She has served the Norwegian government as lead negotiator on REDD+ and as principal legal advisor in the UN climate negotiations; negotiating, inter alia, the Paris Agreement and its Rulebook. She has served co-facilitator for the negotiations on the rules for the Paris Agreement´s implementation and compliance committee (PAICC). In 2019, she was elected by the first meeting of the Parties to the Paris Agreement as a member of PAICC and currently serves as inaugural Co-Chair of the PAICC.