The Montreal Protocol is considered the most successful international environmental treaty. Its effectiveness has made it a model for other agreements, but its power goes beyond protecting the stratospheric ozone layer. Much of the implementing legislation appears in Title VI of the Clean Air...

In their book Climate Change Justice, Eric Posner and David Weisbach advocate adoption of an economically optimal climate treaty coupled with foreign aid (to handle distributional issues with poor countries) and increased investment (to transfer funds to future generations harmed by climate...

Global governance institutions for climate change, such as those established by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol, have so far failed to make a significant impact on greenhouse gas emissions. Following the lead of Elinor Ostrom, this paper offers an...

Many lands are getting uninhabitable because of anthropogenic global warming, either through the sea level rise and the severing of climate hazards or through desertification and land degradation. 250 million people may be displaced before 2050 and many will be coerced to find asylum abroad....

The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) aims to enhance the efficiency of the Kyoto Protocol by providing greenhouse gas emission credits from projects in developing countries. Its unequal distribution among host countries gives rise to both concerns of equity and the question about the volume of...