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Can Red Clay Go Green? Adapting Law And Policy In The Face Of Climate Change, 20th Annual Red Clay Conference, Daniel M. Bodansky, David D. Caron, Mary Carr, Heidi Davison, David Hunter, Josh Love, James Marlow
Can Red Clay Go Green? Adapting Law And Policy In The Face Of Climate Change, 20th Annual Red Clay Conference, Daniel M. Bodansky, David D. Caron, Mary Carr, Heidi Davison, David Hunter, Josh Love, James Marlow
David B. Hunter
Program for the 20th Annual Red Clay Conference held Friday, April 4, 2008 at the University of Georgia School of Law's Dean Rusk Hall.
The Implications Of Climate Change Litigation For International Environmental Law-Making, David B. Hunter
The Implications Of Climate Change Litigation For International Environmental Law-Making, David B. Hunter
David B. Hunter
Climate advocates are increasingly raising specific climate change concerns before domestic courts, human rights tribunals, international commissions and other national and international decisionmaking bodies. Win or lose, these litigation strategies are significantly changing and enhancing the public dialogue around climate change. This article discusses the awareness-building impacts of climate litigation as well as related impacts such strategies may have on the development of climate law and policy. The article argues that litigation's focus on specific victims facing immediate threats from climate change has increased the political will to address climate change both internationally and nationally. It has also shifted the …