Description
Although tackling the causes of climate change through mitigation is necessary, it is also essential to examine the effect of climate change and what international cooperation can take place to ensure global adaptation measures. This pioneering book deals exclusively with the politics of why adaptation as a global responsibility continues to be ignored.
Table of Contents
Part 1 Adaptation, reality and the proposed way out; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Climate change regime, adaptation and politics; Chapter 3 Climate finance; Chapter 4 Conceptualizing adaptation; Part 2 Levers to catalyse global cooperation in adaptation; Chapter 5 Double exposure to globalization and climate change; Chapter 6 The lens of human and global security; Chapter 7 Climate change, justice and human rights; Part 3 Instruments for effecting the binding regime on adaptation; Chapter 8 Polluter pays principle to effect a binding adaptation regime; Chapter 9 Liability and compensation under loss and damage; Chapter 10 Conclusion;
