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Editor's Note, Blake M. Mensing, Addie Haughey Jan 2010

Editor's Note, Blake M. Mensing, Addie Haughey

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

No abstract provided.


Using Redd To Promote Biodiversity-Sensitive Forest Fire Management Schemes, Alex Hoover Jan 2010

Using Redd To Promote Biodiversity-Sensitive Forest Fire Management Schemes, Alex Hoover

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

No abstract provided.


Assessing Offset Quality In The Clean Development Mechanism, The Offset Quality Initiative Jan 2010

Assessing Offset Quality In The Clean Development Mechanism, The Offset Quality Initiative

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

No abstract provided.


Climate Change And The Regional Human Rights Systems, Megan Chapman Jan 2010

Climate Change And The Regional Human Rights Systems, Megan Chapman

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

No abstract provided.


Standardization Of Redd Monitoring Technology To Level The Playing Field, Beth Zgoda Jan 2010

Standardization Of Redd Monitoring Technology To Level The Playing Field, Beth Zgoda

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

No abstract provided.


U.S. Climate Change Policy V. International Trade Rules: Complying With Gatt, Tina R. Goel Jan 2010

U.S. Climate Change Policy V. International Trade Rules: Complying With Gatt, Tina R. Goel

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

No abstract provided.


Joining The Convention On Biological Diversity: A Legal And Scientific Overview Of Why The United States Must Wake Up, William J. Snape Iii Jan 2010

Joining The Convention On Biological Diversity: A Legal And Scientific Overview Of Why The United States Must Wake Up, William J. Snape Iii

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

No abstract provided.


Commentary On Achim Steiner's 2009 Grotius Lecture, Dinah Shelton Jan 2010

Commentary On Achim Steiner's 2009 Grotius Lecture, Dinah Shelton

American University International Law Review

No abstract provided.


Volume 10 Issue 2, Sustainable Development Law & Policy Jan 2010

Volume 10 Issue 2, Sustainable Development Law & Policy

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

No abstract provided.


Implications Of The Copenhagen Accord For Global Climate Governance, David B. Hunter Jan 2010

Implications Of The Copenhagen Accord For Global Climate Governance, David B. Hunter

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

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 …


Equitable But Ineffective: How The Principle Of Common But Differentiated Responsibilities Hobbles The Global Fight Against Climate Change, Mary J. Bortscheller Jan 2010

Equitable But Ineffective: How The Principle Of Common But Differentiated Responsibilities Hobbles The Global Fight Against Climate Change, Mary J. Bortscheller

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

No abstract provided.


Liability For Environmental Harm And Emerging Global Environmental Law, Robert V. Percival Jan 2010

Liability For Environmental Harm And Emerging Global Environmental Law, Robert V. Percival

Maryland Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.


The Aftermath Of Copenhagen: Does International Law Have A Role To Play In A Global Response To Climate Change?, Jacob Werksman, Kirk Herbertson Jan 2010

The Aftermath Of Copenhagen: Does International Law Have A Role To Play In A Global Response To Climate Change?, Jacob Werksman, Kirk Herbertson

Maryland Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.


Multiscalar Governance And Climate Change: Reflections On The Role Of States And Cities At Copenhagen, Hari M. Osofsky Jan 2010

Multiscalar Governance And Climate Change: Reflections On The Role Of States And Cities At Copenhagen, Hari M. Osofsky

Maryland Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.


From Bali To Copenhagen: Towards A Shared Vision For A Post-2012 Climate Regime?, Jutta Brunnée Jan 2010

From Bali To Copenhagen: Towards A Shared Vision For A Post-2012 Climate Regime?, Jutta Brunnée

Maryland Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.


Success Or Failure?, Richard L. Ottinger Jan 2010

Success Or Failure?, Richard L. Ottinger

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

The Copenhagen Climate Conference and its Copenhagen Accord have generally been billed by the press as having been a failure. I think this is a very unfortunate mischaracterisation. The conference was a failure only in not achieving binding commitments to reduce global greenhouse gas (GHG) emission levels sufficiently to meet the requirements identified by the some 3,000 leading global scientists of the UN International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to avoid disastrous consequences – such as sea-level rise leading to massive migration, food disruption, water shortages, tropical disease migration, biodiversity destruction, etc. But the conference didn’t expect that this could …


Eleventh Annual Grotius Lecture Series: Focusing On The Good Or The Bad: What Can International Environmental Law Do To Accelerate The Transition Towards A Green Economy? , Achim Steiner Jan 2010

Eleventh Annual Grotius Lecture Series: Focusing On The Good Or The Bad: What Can International Environmental Law Do To Accelerate The Transition Towards A Green Economy? , Achim Steiner

American University International Law Review

No abstract provided.


Stepping Stone Or Stumbling Block: Incrementalism And National Climate Change Legislation, Rachel Brewster Jan 2010

Stepping Stone Or Stumbling Block: Incrementalism And National Climate Change Legislation, Rachel Brewster

Faculty Scholarship

This Article examines the effects of incremental domestic legislation on international negotiations to limit greenhouse gas emissions. Mitigating the effects of climate change is a global public good, which, ultimately, only an international agreement can provide. The common presumption (justified or not) is that national legislation is a step forward to an international agreement. This Article analyzes how national legislation can create a demand for international action but can also preempt or frustrate international efforts. The crucial issue, which has been largely ignored thus far, is how incremental steps at the domestic level alter international negotiations. This paper identifies four …


Exceptionalism United?: Unpacking Unfccc Article 7.2 ©, Niranjali M. Amerasinghe Jan 2010

Exceptionalism United?: Unpacking Unfccc Article 7.2 ©, Niranjali M. Amerasinghe

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

No abstract provided.


Fsm Vs. Czech: A New “Standing” For Climate Change?, Paulo A. Lopes Jan 2010

Fsm Vs. Czech: A New “Standing” For Climate Change?, Paulo A. Lopes

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

No abstract provided.


Legal Foundations For Ngo Participation In Climate Treaty Negotiations , Winfield Wilson Jan 2010

Legal Foundations For Ngo Participation In Climate Treaty Negotiations , Winfield Wilson

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

No abstract provided.


The Market For Treaties, Natasha Affolder Jan 2010

The Market For Treaties, Natasha Affolder

All Faculty Publications

Corporations are consumers of treaty law. In this article, I empirically examine three biodiversity treaty regimes - the Convention on Biological Diversity, Ramsar Convention, and World Heritage Convention - to demonstrate that corporations implement or internalize treaty norms in a variety of ways that are not captured by the dominant model of treaty implementation – national implementation. As an exegetical model, I explore how corporations use biodiversity treaties as a source of private environmental standards. I focus on the interactions between mining and oil and gas companies and biodiversity treaties, as revealed through transactional documents, corporate reports, security law filings, …


Cubing The Kyoto Protocol: Post-Copenhagen Regulatory Reforms To Reset The Global Thermostat, Steven Ferrey Jan 2010

Cubing The Kyoto Protocol: Post-Copenhagen Regulatory Reforms To Reset The Global Thermostat, Steven Ferrey

Suffolk University Law School Faculty Works

The Copenhagen Conference of the Parties (COP-15), which took place in December 2009, was intended to set in stone an ambitious global climate change agreement for the post-2012 period, when the Kyoto Protocol expires. It did not succeed, resulting only in a 13-paragraph “political accord” which was not agreed to, but only “noted” because of lack of consensus. The COP-16 in December 2010 in Cancun, Mexico, met a similar, if less contentious, inconclusive end. Every fundamental issue was left unresolved at both disappointing critical Conferences. Left unreformed as an international legal regulatory mechanism, the Kyoto Protocol has no chance of …


A Green Road To Development: Environmental Regulations And Developing Countries In The Wto, Jonathan Skinner Jan 2010

A Green Road To Development: Environmental Regulations And Developing Countries In The Wto, Jonathan Skinner

Publications

The WTO framework can accommodate enforceable environmentally protective measures.


Climate Change, Fragmentation, And The Challenges Of Global Environmental Law: Elements Of A Post-Copenhagen Assemblage, William Boyd Jan 2010

Climate Change, Fragmentation, And The Challenges Of Global Environmental Law: Elements Of A Post-Copenhagen Assemblage, William Boyd

Publications

The 2009 United Nations climate conference in Copenhagen has been widely viewed as a failure -a referendum in the eyes of many on the top-down, comprehensive approach to climate governance embodied in the Kyoto Protocol and carried forward in efforts to negotiate a successor regime. Despite a modest agreement on future work toward a new agreement, the most recent climate meeting in Cancún, Mexico reinforces this view, underscoring the conclusion that Copenhagen represents an important inflection point for international climate policy. Although much of the post-Copenhagen commentary has correctly identified various problems, even fatal flaws, with the process, very little …


State Responsibility In Promoting Environmental Corporate Accountability, Lakshman Guruswamy Jan 2010

State Responsibility In Promoting Environmental Corporate Accountability, Lakshman Guruswamy

Publications

No abstract provided.


A Green Solution To Climate Change: The Hybrid Approach To Crediting Reductions In Tropical Deforestation, Randall S. Abate, Todd A. Wright Jan 2010

A Green Solution To Climate Change: The Hybrid Approach To Crediting Reductions In Tropical Deforestation, Randall S. Abate, Todd A. Wright

Journal Publications

No abstract provided.


Redd, White, And Blue: Is Proposed U.S. Climate Legislation Adequate To Promote A Global Carbon Credits System For Avoided Deforestation In A Post-Kyoto Regime?, Randall S. Abate Jan 2010

Redd, White, And Blue: Is Proposed U.S. Climate Legislation Adequate To Promote A Global Carbon Credits System For Avoided Deforestation In A Post-Kyoto Regime?, Randall S. Abate

Journal Publications

Reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) has emerged as an important albeit controversial, component of negotiations for a new international climate change regime to succeed the Kyoto Protocol when it expires in 2012 Not permitted under the terms of the Kyoto Protocol, REDD involves paying developing countries to protect their tropical forests as a climate change mitigation strategy REDD gained widespread attention by 2005 and took center stage in the months preceding the negotiation of the Copenhagen Accord in December 2009. After more than a decade of nonparticipation in international climate change compliance efforts, the United States has signed …


Climate Change Consensus: Emerging International Law, Elizabeth Burleson Jan 2010

Climate Change Consensus: Emerging International Law, Elizabeth Burleson

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


China In Context: Energy, Water, And Climate Cooperation, Elizabeth Burleson Jan 2010

China In Context: Energy, Water, And Climate Cooperation, Elizabeth Burleson

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.