Climate Law

Source: Volume 7, Issue 4, pp 290 – 321 Relocation requires reimagining the role of law and policy in assisting community relocation planning in predisaster contexts. For decades, the 467-person Inupiaq whaling village of Kivalina, Alaska, ...Read More

Source: Volume 7, Issue 4, pp 232 – 258 Although the current political climate in the United States is not especially receptive to welcoming displaced persons, the country has a history of oscillating between greater and lesser openness to ...Read More

Source: Volume 7, Issue 4, pp 227 – 231 Publication: Climate Law Publisher: Brill ISSN: 1878-6553 | E-ISSN: 1878-6561 Original url: http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/18786561-00704001

Source: Volume 7, Issue 4, pp 259 – 289 In Alaska, indigenous rural communities face climate-related challenges to maintaining their physical and cultural continuity. Some of these communities are considering ‘co-relocation’, in which the p...Read More

Source: Volume 7, Issue 4, pp 322 – 346 There is a need to overcome the dichotomy in international responses to climate change between, on the one hand, a recognition of the significant threat posed by climate impacts for the continued enjo...Read More

Source: Volume 7, Issue 4, pp 347 – 349 Publication: Climate Law Publisher: Brill ISSN: 1878-6553 | E-ISSN: 1878-6561 Original url: http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/18786561-00704006

Source: Volume 7, Issue 2-3, pp 150 – 184 China’s policymakers regard forest carbon sequestration as one of the most cost-effective ways to combat climate change. Yet, scholars argue that foreign forest carbon projects in developing countri...Read More

Source: Volume 7, Issue 2-3, pp 209 – 226 When it comes to climate litigation, environmental plaintiffs in the United States have demonstrated a remarkable ingenuity in terms of utilizing various legal avenues to compensate for the persisti...Read More

Source: Volume 7, Issue 2-3, pp 65 – 96 Hong Kong enjoys a high degree of autonomy as a Special Administrative Region of China. Unlike China itself, Hong Kong is not a party to international climate change agreements. While China has declar...Read More

Source: Volume 7, Issue 2-3, pp 125 – 149 This article examines whether ‘trial and error’ is an effective approach to the design of regulations for China’s emission-trading pilot programs. These pilots are designed and operated at local lev...Read More

Source: Volume 7, Issue 2-3, pp 185 – 208 Article 58 of China’s Environmental Protection Law 2014 (EPL) makes up for the earlier inadequacy of China’s environmental public-interest litigation (ENVPIL), but its actual efficacy needs to be te...Read More

Source: Volume 7, Issue 2-3, pp 97 – 124 China plans the implementation of a nationwide market-based mechanism for greenhouse gas mitigation, appearing thus to replicate the method used most notably in the European Union to price greenhouse...Read More