Climate change liability : transnational law and practice / edited by Richard Lord [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lord, Richard, 1959- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Liability for climatic change damages.

Climatic changes--Law and legislation.

Climatic changes.

Conflict of laws--Liability for environmental damages.

Conflict of laws.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiv, 685 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

As frustration mounts in some quarters at the perceived inadequacy or speed of international action on climate change, and as the likelihood of significant impacts grows, the focus is increasingly turning to liability for climate change damage. Actual or potential climate change liability implicates a growing range of actors, including governments, industry, businesses, non-governmental organisations, individuals and legal practitioners. Climate Change Liability provides an objective, rigorous and accessible overview of the existing law and the direction it might take in seventeen developed and developing countries and the European Union. In some jurisdictions, the applicable law is less developed and less the subject of current debate. In others, actions for various kinds of climate change liability have already been brought, including high profile cases such as Massachusetts volume EPA in the United States. Each chapter explores the potential for and barriers to climate change liability in private and public law.

Contents:

Introduction / Jutta Brunnée, Silke Goldberg, Richard Lord, Lavanya Rajamani

The scientific basis for climate change liability / Myles Allen

Overview of legal issues relevant to climate change / Jutta Brunnée, Silke Goldberg, Richard Lord, Lavanya Rajamani

Policy considerations / Jutta Brunnée, Silke Goldberg, Richard Lord, Lavanya Rajamani

Australia / Ross Abbs, Peter Cashman and Tim Stephens

China / Deng Haifeng

India / Lavanya Rajamani and Shibani Ghosh

Indonesia / Mas Achmad Santosa, Josi Khatarina and Sjarief Rifqi Assegaf

Japan / Yukari Takamura

Egypt / Dalia Farouk and Lamiaa Youssef

Israel / Issachar Rosen-Zvi

Kenya / Patricia Kameri-Mbote and Collins Odote

South Africa / Jan Glazewski and Debbie Collier

European Union law / Ludwig Krämer

Germany / Hans-Joachim Koch, Michael Lührs and Roda Verheyen

Poland / Bartosz Kuraś, Maciej Szewczyk, Dominik Walkowski, Tomasz Wardyński, Izabela Zielińska-Barloźk.

England / Silke Goldberg and Richard Lord

Russia / Fiona Mucklow Cheremeteff, Max Gutbrod, Daria Ratsiborinskaya, Sergei Sitnikov

Canada / Meinhard Doelle, Dennis Mahony and Alex Smith

United States of America / Michael B. Gerrard and Gregory E. Wannier

Brazil / Yanko Marcius de Alencar Xavier and Pedro Lucas de Moura Soares

Mexico / José Juan González Marquez.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781139084383

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.