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Potential Causes Of Action For Climate Change Impacts Under The United Nations Fish Stocks Agreement, William C.G. Burns

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

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What Next For The Alliance Of Small Island States In The Climate Change Arena? , Daniel Brindis

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

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Implementation & Utilization Of Geoengineering For Global Climate Change Control , Alan Carlin

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

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The Black Hole In The Kyoto Protocol: Was The Exclusion Of Black Carbon Regulation A "Fatal Flaw"?, John Feldon

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

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Global Climate Change Creates A New Carbon Business For U.S. Companies, Michael J. Zimmer

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

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The Clean Development Mechanism: Considerations For Investors And Policymakers, Craig H. Hart

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

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Preparing For The Day After Tomorrow: Frameworks For Climate Change Adaptation, Ira R. Feldman, Joshua H. Kahan

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

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Judging Treaties, Lakshman Guruswamy

Publications

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Slides: Beyond Kyoto: Climate Change And International Law, Fabio Feldmann

Climate Change and the Future of the American West: Exploring the Legal and Policy Dimensions (Summer Conference, June 7-9)

Presenter: Fabio Feldmann, Executive Secretary, São Paulo Forum on Global Climate Changes and Biodiversity, Brazil.

55 slides.

Contains references.

Slides: Uk Climate Policy, James Reilly

Climate Change and the Future of the American West: Exploring the Legal and Policy Dimensions (Summer Conference, June 7-9)

Presenter: James Reilly, Senior Energy & Environment Advisor, British Embassy, Washington DC.

28 slides.

Contains references.

Slides: In The Nick Of Time: Pathways To A Post-2012 Climate Treaty Framework, Annie Petsonk

Climate Change and the Future of the American West: Exploring the Legal and Policy Dimensions (Summer Conference, June 7-9)

Presenter: Annie Petsonk, Environmental Defense, Washington, DC.

22 slides.

Take The Long Way Home: Sub-Federal Integration Of Unratified And Non-Self-Executing Treaty Law, Lesley Wexler

Michigan Journal of International Law

This Article introduces the longstanding treaty compliance debate and expands it to include the question of whether treaties influence sub-federal actors in non-ratifying countries. This Part draws on norm theory to conclude that sub-federal actors may use treaties and treaty processes as: (a) a framework to understand the underlying substantive issue, (b) a way to reduce drafting costs, (c) a focal point to measure compliance, (d) evidence of an international consensus, (e) a mechanism to express or signal a cosmopolitan identity, or (f) a springboard to criticize the current administration.

Climate Change, The Kyoto Protocol, And The World Trade Organization: Challenges And Conflicts, Daniel Mcnamee

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

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Voluntary Plans Will Not Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions In The Electricity Sector, Mary Anne Sullivan

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

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The Effects Of The Kyoto Protocol On Taiwan, Yi-Yuan William Su

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

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The Legal Implications Of Carbon Capture And Storage Under The Sea, Ray Purdy

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

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Oceans And Climate Change: Global And Arctic Perspectives, Magdalena A.K. Muir

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

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International Treaty Enforcement As A Public Good: Institutional Deterrent Sanctions In International Environmental Agreements, Tseming Yang

Michigan Journal of International Law

This Article approaches the issues through the lens of two general questions. First, what are the functions of treaty enforcement and institutional deterrent sanctions? Second, what are the obstacles to the effective deployment of institutional deterrent sanctions in response to noncompliance? This Article elaborates on the instrumental purposes of enforcement as well as its independent normative function. Much of the analysis follows the recent stream of works that combines both international law and international relations theory. These works offer a rich understanding of the conduct of states and the functioning of international legal regimes.

From Hot Air To Action? Climate Change, Compliance, And The Future Of International Environmental Law, Meinhard Doelle

PhD Dissertations

This dissertation considers the evolution, current state, and future prognosis of the global climate change regime under the umbrella of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The focus of the dissertation is on State compliance with the Kyoto Protocol. Compliance is considered from the perspective of the internal compliance regime developed under the Kyoto Protocol as well as a select set of potential external international law influences. The dissertation concludes with an assessment of the level of compliance to be expected and its potential influence on the future of the climate change regime. Implications for international environmental law …

The Unresolved Debates That Scorched Kyoto: An Analytical Framework, David W. Childs

University of Miami International and Comparative Law Review

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The Carbon Emissions Market Bottoms Out In One South African Community, Rachael Moshman

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

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Business Responses To Climate Change Overview Of This Issue , Perry Wallace

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

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Accelerating Towards Climate Neutrality With U.S Government Stuck In Neutral: The Emerging Role Of U.S Businesses, Cities, States, And Universities In Aggressively Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Dan Worth

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

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The Prototype Carbon Fund: A New Departure In International Trusts And Securities Law, Sophie Smyth

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

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A New Framework: Post-Kyoto Energy And Environmental Security, Lakshman D. Guruswamy

Publications

In this article Professor Guruswamy advances an argument for new energy agreements that address the immense global environmental challenge presented by the increasing global energy demands of both the developed and developing world. Arguing that new energy accords are needed to meet this challenge, he identifies and describes the decidedly interdisciplinary knowledge base and analytics required to negotiate such international instruments. The construction of these knowledge bases call for scientific, engineering, technological, legal, social, economic and behavioral expertise. Professor Guruswamy identifies pragmatic steps--including a targeted research agenda--that will contribute to such an undertaking and begin the arduous process of addressing …

The Kyoto Protocol: Reflections On Its Significance On The Occasion Of Its Entry Into Force, Meinhard Doelle

Dalhousie Law Journal

When the Kyoto Protocol was signed in December 1997, there were high hopes in some quarters that it marked the beginning of a global commitment to climate change mitigation. In the past seven years, however, the Protocol has languished while many of the kev, States have done little to implement it. Until the fall of 2004 it was uncertain whether the Protocol would ever enter into force. To the surprise of many, with ratification by Russia, it came into effect on February 16, 2005, only three years before the start of the first period of commitments to reduce greenhouse gas …

Assessing The Options For Designing A Mandatory U.S. Greenhouse Gas Reduction Program, Robert R. Nordhaus, Kyle W. Danish

ExpressO

The United States faces growing pressure – both from domestic and international sources – to adopt a mandatory greenhouse gas reduction program to address the risk of global climate change. If policy-makers decide to establish such a program, they could end up creating an environmental regulatory regime of potentially unprecedented scope and impacts. A domestic greenhouse gas program could break ground in other ways too. Many policy-makers are considering innovative market-based approaches to regulation, including a multi-billion dollar economy-wide “cap-and-trade” program. In this paper, we: (1) set forth criteria for evaluating program options; (2) analyze the leading design options and …

World News, Lydia Edwards, Kirk Herbertson, Dave Herbertson

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

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Climate Change And The Wto: Opportunities To Motivate State Action On Climate Change Through The World Trade Organization, Meinhard Doelle

Articles, Book Chapters, & Popular Press

This article explores the role of trade in motivating action on climate change, using the specific example of developments within the World Trade Organization (WTO).

The Kyoto Protocol, the first international agreement with legally binding commitments to begin to address climate change by reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, is expected to come into force in 2004. With it, most of the developed world will be committed to modest reduction targets over the next decade. The two largest per capita emitters, the USA and Australia, have so far opted not to join this modest effort to address climate change, and developing …

Environmental Tribalism, Douglas A. Kysar, James Salzman

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

Recent writings by Dan Farber and J.B. Ruhl have put forward a strong case for "eco-pragmatic" and "radical middle" approaches to environmental policymaking. Rather than debate the merits of such an approach, in this Article we examine whether eco-pragmatic policy development is likely in practice and where it might occur, given the tribal nature of public environmental advocacy. We use the remarkably polarized reaction to Bjorn Lomborg's book, "The Skeptical Environmentalist," as a vehicle to explore the seemingly fundamental divide that exists between warring parties within the environmental law and policy communities. By offering a more complete understanding of why …