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Specific Coverage Issues Implicating Climate Change, David Wirth

David A. Wirth

Moderator, Pope Francis’S Encyclical: An Ethical Summons To Tackle Climate Change, David Wirth

David A. Wirth

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Co-Organizer, Our Common Home: An Ethical Summons To Tackle Climate Change, David Wirth

David A. Wirth

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The Environment, David A. Wirth

David A. Wirth

This chapter surveys settings under the auspices of international organizations and institutions that address the environment and highlights a number of underappreciated structural attributes of international environmental governance. A variety of approaches to treating environment on the multilateral level are categorized, resulting in a typology of both international institutional structures and the diversity of international instruments and policy tools available for promoting substantive international environmental policy. Utilizing examples that are intended to be illustrative of specific aspects of the challenges presented by international environmental policy and law rather than exhaustive, the piece concludes by examining the extent to which form …

The Legal Capacity Of The United States To Accept Internationally Legally Binding Mitigation Targets, David Wirth

David A. Wirth

The International And Domestic Law Of Climate Change: A Binding International Agreement Without The Senate Or Congress?, David A. Wirth

David A. Wirth

This Article asserts that neither Senate advice and consent nor new congressional legislation are necessarily conditions precedent to the United States' becoming a party to a binding agreement to be adopted at the 21st Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, which is to be held in Paris in December 2015. Depending on the form of such an agreement, which is presently under negotiation, the President's Climate Action Plan could provide sufficient domestic legal authority for the conclusion of all or part of such a binding international instrument as an executive agreement, as well as …

Possibilities For A Binding International Agreement On Climate Change: The Us Perspective, David Wirth

David A. Wirth

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