Research handbook on climate change mitigation law / editors, Geen van Calster, Wim Vandenberghe, Leonie Reins.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Calster, Geert van, editor.

Vandenberghe, Wim, editor.

Reins, Leonie, 1987- editor.

Series:

Research handbooks in environmental law.

Research handbooks in environmental law

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climatic changes--Law and legislation.

Climatic changes.

Environmental law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (780 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, [England] ; Northampton, Massachusetts : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Governments around the world have been trying to find ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions for decades. This detailed Handbook considers the spectrum of legal and market-based instruments as well as strategies and policies adopted around the world and suggests more effective, comprehensive and responsive ways of managing climate change mitigation.

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Editors and contributors; Editorial introduction; 1. The changing architecture of international climate change law; PART I ENERGY; 2. Development of the sustainability aspects of EU energy policy; 3. Greenhouse gas mitigation measures in the US electric power industry; 4. Reflections on the Chinese carbon market; PART II TRANSPORT; 5. The mitigation of transport's CO2 emissions in the EU: policy successes and challenges; 6. Climate change mitigation in the transportation sector in the United States; 7. Climate transport policy in the Asia-Pacific region

PART III BUILDINGS8. How do the European Union and the private sector pave the way to more sustainable buildings?; 9. Energy efficiency of buildings in the United States; 10. Climate change and buildings - an Asia-Pacific primer; PART IV INDUSTRY; 11. Impacts of EU climate and energy policies on industry; 12. An overview of climate change mitigation in the industrial sector of the United States*; 13. How can Asian industry contribute to climate change mitigation action?; PART V LAND USE, LAND USE CHANGE AND FORESTRY

14. Land use, land use change and forestry - How to enter the climate impact of managing biospheres and wood into the EU's greenhouse gas accounting15. Legal regimes for land use, land use change, and forestry in the United States; 16. Land use, land use change and forestry: Asia-Pacific; PART VI WASTE MANAGEMENT; 17. Waste management in the EU; 18. Challenges for controlling GHG emissions from US solid waste management: a summary of federal and exemplary US state efforts; 19. Climate mitigation and waste management in the Asia-Pacific; PART VII CARBON TRADING

20. Blazing trail or flickering flame? Market mechanisms under the UNFCCC21. The EU emissions trading system: frontrunner in trouble; 22. Carbon trading in the United States; 23. Market design and maturity in the Asia Pacific; PART VIII CLIMATE FINANCE; 24. Climate finance in the European Union: domestic and international challenges; 25. Towards climate compatible development in Asia and beyond - the role of official development assistance; PART IX CLIMATE CHANGE LITIGATION; 26. EU climate change litigation: all quiet on the Luxembourgian front?

27. Climate change litigation in the United States28. Climate change litigation in Asia and the Pacific; PART X CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION IN THE BRICS COUNTRIES; 29. Current status of mitigation policies in Brazil; 30. Climate change mitigation in Russia: foreign policy, environmental action or simple economics?; 31. Climate change mitigation in India; 32. China's transition to low carbon society: drivers and implementation strategies; 33. Climate change mitigation in South Africa; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-84980-583-0