This article explains the basic elements of climate change law, with a particular focus on those issues that promise to be important for a considerable time as well as the major factors that are driving the development of this law. The emerging law of climate change is being constructed at the...

The extensive debate on the fragmentation of international law has only paid cursory attention to its manifestation within the area of international environmental law, even though this field has spawned a great number of international legal instruments. Against that background, this Article...

In determining whether a federal climate change law should pre-empt state laws in the area, it is helpful to examine the reasons for pre-emption in the environmental context. This examination of when pre-emption is warranted would indicate that in most instances, federal climate change...

Could the UNFCCC, and green laws in general, increase greenhouse gas emissions and thus worsen the threats and risks of climate change? That is the question posed by the recognition of green paradoxes; that potential green laws might backfire under certain circumstances. This paper finds that...

Although the no-harm principle has been identified as the cornerstone of international environmental law, it has not generally been recognized as a central feature of international climate change governance. Enduring disagreements as to the relevant normative principles to international...

This book brings together over seventy authors from a dozen countries for a comprehensive examination of the emerging global regime of climate change law. Despite the relative youth of climate change law, we can already begin to see the outlines of legal regimes addressing climate change...