Full Description
This meticulously revised second edition provides a comparative overview of climate change mitigation issues and international regulatory approaches, bringing together expert contributors to analyse key sectors such as energy, transport, cities, industry, land use, agriculture and waste.
Governments around the world have been investigating techniques to reduce greenhouse gas emissions for decades. This detailed Research Handbook considers the spectrum of legal and market-based instruments, as well as strategies and policies adopted around the world, to propose more effective, comprehensive and responsive ways of managing climate change mitigation. As well as taking stock of the current and proposed legal instruments, the book investigates the wider policy and economic aspects of coping with climate change. It provides a comparative overview of key issues across Europe, the United States, Asia-Pacific and the BRICS countries, and discusses domestic, regional and international law and governance. Important issues such as carbon trading, financing and litigation are also addressed.
This timely Research Handbook will be an authoritative resource for scholars of climate change law and policy, whilst also providing a rigorous overview for upper-level students. Policymakers will gain insights from the comparative perspectives, and practitioners will appreciate the broad range of practical issues addressed.
Contents
Contents
PART I CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION LAW -
ARCHITECTURE AND GOVERNANCE
1 Climate change mitigation and the role of law 2
Leonie Reins and Jonathan Verschuuren
2 The evolving architecture of global climate law 17
Harro van Asselt, Michael Mehling and Kati Kulovesi
3 Climate change mitigation and the precautionary principle 43
Nicolas de Sadeleer
PART II CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION LAW AND POLICY IN
THE REGIONS
4 The European Union and its rule-creating force on the European
continent for moving to climate neutrality by 2050 at the latest 58
Marjan Peeters and Delphine Misonne
5 Climate change mitigation law and policy in the United States and Canada 102
Katrina Fischer Kuh and Michael Charles Leach
6 Climate change mitigation law and policy in Central and South America 137
Juliana Zuluaga Madrid
7 Climate change mitigation law and policy in the Asia-Pacific 155
Alexander Zahar
8 Climate change mitigation law and policy in the Middle East 178
Mehdi Piri
9 Climate change mitigation law and policy in the BRICS 195
Rafael Leal-Arcas, Mariam Al Zarkani, Lina Jbara, Ruqaya Mohamed
Mubwana, Marianna Margaritidou and Angela van der Berg
10 Climate change mitigation law and policy in Africa 239
Olivia Rumble and Andrew Gilder
PART III OVERARCHING LEGAL TOOLS FOR CLIMATE CHANGE
MITIGATION
11 Climate finance after Paris 262
David Driesen and Cinnamon Carlarne
12 Incentivizing carbon transition - a comparison of carbon trading in the
EU and China 282
Stefan E. Weishaar, Kateryna Holzer and Bingyu Liu
13 Climate litigation in the context of mitigation: an evolving jurisprudence 306
Patrick Parenteau
PART IV SECTORS
14 Regulatory and policy instruments to promote decarbonization in the
energy sector 337
Sirja-Leena Penttinen
15 Transportation's trinity and climate change mitigation 362
Tanveer Ahmad, Paul Fitzgerald and Jeffrey J. Smith
16 Cities and climate change mitigation law from a polycentric and
comparative perspective 398
Cathrin Zengerling, Debora Sotto and Oliver Fuo
17 Agriculture, forestry and other land use (AFOLU) 432
Jonathan Verschuuren
18 Carbon majors, social choice, and anticommons: addressing climate change
mitigation policy formation in the industrial sector 456
Roy Andrew Partain
19 Waste management 481
Geert Van Calster and Luna Aristei
20 Greenhouse gas removal 501
Tracy Hester and Kirsten Williams
Index
