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Natural Gas And Net Zero: Mutually Exclusive Pathways For The Southeast, Adam D. Orford
Natural Gas And Net Zero: Mutually Exclusive Pathways For The Southeast, Adam D. Orford
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Climate policy increasingly focuses on pathways to achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, providing a clear standard against which to evaluate energy system planning. Examining the current and projected fuel mix of the electric power sector in the southeastern United States shows that an ongoing transition to natural gas for electricity risks locking in decades of greenhouse gas emissions at levels fundamentally incompatible with net zero goals. Furthermore, southeastern regulatory proceedings are not well designed to engage with this reality, although useful regulatory models are emerging. Natural gas will remain an important part of the southeastern fuel mix …
Poland: Winds Of Change In The Act On Windfarms, Jacob T. Mcclendon
Poland: Winds Of Change In The Act On Windfarms, Jacob T. Mcclendon
Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law
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Water, Water Everywhere, But Just How Much Is Clean?: Examining Water Quality Restoration Efforts Under The United States Clean Water Act And The United States-Canada Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, Jill T. Hauserman
Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law
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Let Them Eat Carbon: The End Of The Kyoto Protocol, Aiten J. Musaeva Mcpherson
Let Them Eat Carbon: The End Of The Kyoto Protocol, Aiten J. Musaeva Mcpherson
Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law
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From Contract To Legislation: The Logic Of Modern International Lawmaking, Timothy L. Meyer
From Contract To Legislation: The Logic Of Modern International Lawmaking, Timothy L. Meyer
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The future of international lawmaking is in peril. Both trade and climate negotiations have failed to produce a multilateral agreement since the mid-1990s, while the U.N. Security Council has been unable to comprehensively respond to the humanitarian crisis in Syria. In response to multilateralism’s retreat, many prominent commentators have called for international institutions to be given the power to bind holdout states — often rising or reluctant powers such as China and the United States — without their consent. In short, these proposals envision international law traveling the road taken by federal systems such as the United States and the …
Global Public Goods, Governance Risk, And International Energy, Timothy L. Meyer
Global Public Goods, Governance Risk, And International Energy, Timothy L. Meyer
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Scholars and commentators have long argued that issue linkages provide a way to increase cooperation on global public goods by increasing participation in global institutions, building consensus, and deterring free-riding. In this symposium article, I argue that the emphasis on the potential of issue linkages to facilitate cooperation in these ways has caused commentators to underestimate how common features of international legal institutions designed to accomplish these aims can actually undermine those institutions’ ability to facilitate cooperation. I focus on two features of institutional design that are intended to encourage participation in public goods institutions but can create the risk …