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Climate Finance And Transparency In The Paris Agreement - Key Current And Emerging Legal Issues, Patricia Galvao-Ferreira
Climate Finance And Transparency In The Paris Agreement - Key Current And Emerging Legal Issues, Patricia Galvao-Ferreira
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The success of the Paris Agreement depends in large measure on the legal and operational details of the “enhanced transparency framework” under article 13, including the transparency framework for climate financial support. The transparency framework for financial support will guide how parties are to report the progress toward meeting their commitments to provide financial support for climate action in developing countries and, where support is received, on its use. Developed countries’ pledge to provide financial support to developing countries was a cornerstone of the compromise that enabled the virtually consensual global adoption of the Paris Agreement in 2015. This financial …
Differentiation In International Environmental Law: Has Pragmatism Displaced Considerations Of Justice?, Patricia Galvao-Ferreira
Differentiation In International Environmental Law: Has Pragmatism Displaced Considerations Of Justice?, Patricia Galvao-Ferreira
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The Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) scholarly movement seeks to assess and to advance the ‘promise of international law to transform itself into a system based, not on power, but justice’, by considering how global norms impair or advance the interests of states in the Global South. This chapter seeks to contribute to the TWAIL scholarly project by examining whether international environmental law (IEL)’s norms and mechanisms have been a source of international legal innovation by challenging entrenched global socio-economic and power imbalances, making this field of law more supportive of the interests of the South. This chapter …
Lifting The Curtain: Opening A Preliminary Examination At The International Criminal Court, Rosemary Grey, Sara Wharton
Lifting The Curtain: Opening A Preliminary Examination At The International Criminal Court, Rosemary Grey, Sara Wharton
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In the emerging literature on preliminary examinations, most scholars have focussed on issues that arise after a preliminary examination has been opened. Yet, there has been little analysis of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor’s decision to open a preliminary examination in the first place. Taking this gap in the literature as our starting point, and flagging an emerging debate in the ICC as to whether the ICC Statute envisages a ‘pre-preliminary examination’ stage at all, this article examines the law and policy which governs the opening of an ICC preliminary examination and makes the case for further critical discussion …