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Corporate Climate Liability
The ruling of the Higher Regional Court of Hamm of November 30, 2017, on RWE’s responsibility for (imminent) climate damage in Peru is now almost a...
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Climate Justice and Transnational Climate Constitutionalism
Global constitutionalism offers a way of thinking about international law that finds its raison d'être in the individual. It seeks to offer...
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Public Participation in International Climate Change Law: Analysis of the Impacts of Uncertainty Related to Climate Response Measures on the Public
Climate change harmfully affects social and natural systems. These outcomes adversely affect the human and natural systems, resulting in adopting...
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Climate adaptation law: a European perspective
In contrast to climate protection law, which regulates the mitigation of climate change, climate adaptation law deals with the management of the...
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Principles of EU law in climate litigation
The present contribution questions the role of principles of EU law in climate litigation. Notwithstanding their importance within the EU general...
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Climate Change and Sustainability
The chapter discusses the challenge of global climate change and its relationship with sustainability. Following a brief review of the origin,...
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Climate Change Challenges Constitutional Law: Contextualising the German Federal Constitutional Courts Climate Jurisprudence Within Climate Constitutionalism
Climate change requires constitutional responses. The fundamental rights or environmental protection clauses contained in most constitutions provide...
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Understanding Climate Migration Governance
The recent growth in international discourse on climate change and migration nexus has given a necessary push towards development of regulatory...
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Privatisation and Climate Change: a Question of Duties?
If the state outsources a responsibility to private actors to plant trees, is that necessarily a bad thing? Surely, one would think not. Still, in...
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The Loss and Damage Fund: A Solution to Interpretive Conflicts of Responsibility for Climate Change?
Today, developed and develo** countries, each based on their economic, political, and geographical background, have a different interpretation of...
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The Climate Crisis and Private Companies: How to Address the Sustainability Arbitrage Problem
In the presence of pressing challenges related to climate change, there is a wide range of policy proposals concerning the green transition of...
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Planetary Ethics: Rereading Seyla Benhabib in the Age of Climate Refugees
In the Anthropocene, humans are drastically impacting the Earth system. Though the numbers are disputed, millions of climate refugees might soon...
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The Privatisation of Climate Change Litigation: Current Developments in Conflict of Laws
The purpose of this contribution is to analyse climate change litigation in an innovative way, considering it as an example of “privatisation” of...
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Global Climate Constitutionalism “from below” The Role of Climate Change Litigation for International Climate Lawmaking
Global climate constitutionalism is seen as a possible legal answer to the social and political unwillingness of states to effectively tackle climate...
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Legislative Protection for the Soil Environment and Climate Change
Recent court decisions in Australia and in overseas jurisdictions have made important progress in society’s acceptance of the significance of climate...
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Climate Justice and The Greening of Investment Arbitration
Climate justice is a part of the preamble of the Paris Agreement, hence a context for treaty interpretation. It captures the need to protect the...
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Climate-Caused Migration
This contribution deals with the responses of law at its different levels to migration caused by the consequences of climate change, focusing in...
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Negotiating Climate, Citizenship, and Belonging
The current chapter provides an analysis of the functioning of the state in Assam, it considers how the dynamics between politics, society, and law...
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Biodiversity and Environmental Impact from Climate Change: Causes and Consequences
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports that current global warming is unprecedented in the past 2000 years, and atmospheric CO2 levels...