New homework for environmental labelling to implement the Paris Agreement to address climate change

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Dhandy Arisaktiwardhana
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Paris Agreement ◽  
Address Climate Change ◽  
Environmental Labelling

Part V Subject Matter, Ch.29 Climate Change

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rajamani Lavanya ◽  
Werksman Jacob D
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
International Law ◽  
Environmental Law ◽  
Paris Agreement ◽  
Due Diligence ◽  
Address Climate Change ◽  
Rules And Principles ◽  
Harm Prevention ◽  
And Function ◽  
The Universe

This chapter provides an overview of international regulatory efforts to address climate change. It focuses on the UN climate change regime, which comprises the 1992 UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change), the Kyoto Protocol, the Paris Agreement, and decisions of parties under these instruments. However, the universe of climate change law extends well beyond the UN climate change regime. There are rules and principles of general international law, such as the harm prevention principle, due diligence, and state responsibility, which apply to climate change. There are treaty regimes and institutions, including those addressing other areas of international environmental law or other fields of international law, which intersect with, complement, and function to implement the UN climate change regime. There are also a multiplicity of rules, regulations, and institutions at the regional, sub-regional, and national levels that directly or indirectly address climate change, many of which have been put in place in response to the UN treaties.

scholarly journals A Rights Turn in Climate Change Litigation?

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacqueline Peel ◽  
Hari M. Osofsky
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Paris Agreement ◽  
Address Climate Change ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Us ◽  
Increasing Trend ◽  
Significant Milestone

AbstractIn 2015, a Pakistani court in the case ofLeghariv.Federation of Pakistanmade history by accepting arguments that governmental failures to address climate change adequately violated petitioners’ rights. This case forms part of an emerging body of pending or decided climate change-related lawsuits that incorporate rights-based arguments in several countries, including the Netherlands, the Philippines, Austria, South Africa, and the United States (US). These decisions align with efforts to recognize the human rights dimensions of climate change, which received important endorsement in the Paris Agreement. The decisions also represent a significant milestone in climate change litigation. Although there have been hundreds of climate-based cases around the world over the past two decades – especially in the US – past and much of the ongoing litigation focuses primarily on statutory interpretation avenues. Previous efforts to bring human rights cases have also failed to achieve formal success. The new cases demonstrate an increasing trend for petitioners to employ rights claims in climate change lawsuits, as well as a growing receptivity of courts to this framing. This ‘rights turn’ could serve as a model or inspiration for rights-based litigation in other jurisdictions, especially those with similarly structured law and court access.

scholarly journals Mainstreaming Climate Change into the EIA Process in Nigeria: Perspectives from Projects in the Niger Delta Region

Climate ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saheed Matemilola ◽  
Oludare H. Adedeji ◽  
Isa Elegbede ◽  
Fatima Kies
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Niger Delta ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Paris Agreement ◽  
Delta Region ◽  
Political Will ◽  
Address Climate Change ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
Niger Delta Region

Climate change incorporation in environmental assessment is a growing research area, particularly following the Paris agreement. Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is considered in many quarters to be an important tool in factoring climate-related components in the planning and design of a project. However, many recent researches have shown that EIA has, so far, struggled in the attempt to incorporate climate change into its procedures. This study is an attempt to evaluate the level of consideration of climate change in the EIA process in Nigeria, with particular focus on the Niger Delta region. The result of this quantitative research shows that there is a poor political will to address climate change, as reflected in the absence of climate change requirements in the EIA guidelines of Nigeria. Although, there is a growing trend in the pattern of consideration of climate change in the EIA procedures, the overall level of consideration is still a far cry from the requirements if EIA is to be considered to be an important tool in addressing challenges of climate change in Nigeria.

scholarly journals Understanding the 2015 Paris Agreement

2019 ◽  
pp. 205-221
Author(s):  
Lavanya Rajamani
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Kyoto Protocol ◽  
Step Change ◽  
Paris Agreement ◽  
Legal Form ◽  
Address Climate Change ◽  
Multilateral Negotiations ◽  
International Climate ◽  
Legal Character ◽  
International Climate Change

The international climate change regime comprises the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, and the 2015 Paris Agreement, and numerous decisions under these instruments. These instruments, in particular the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement, represent fundamentally different approaches to the three central issues that the international climate change regime has been struggling with since the inception of multilateral negotiations. These issues are: the architecture of climate instruments; the legal form of climate instruments and the legal character of provisions in them; and differentiation among countries, in particular, between developed and developing countries. This chapter explores each of these central issues in turn, with a focus on how the Paris Agreement resolves these issues, and represents a step change in the international community’s efforts to address climate change.

scholarly journals Climate Contributions and the Paris Agreement: Fairness and Equity in a Bottom-Up Architecture

2016 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 291-301 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Chan
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Carbon Budget ◽  
Paris Agreement ◽  
Voluntary Contributions ◽  
Climate Regime ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Address Climate Change ◽  
International Climate ◽  
Fair Distribution

One of the chief aspects of last December's landmark Paris Agreement on climate change was the acceptance of the notion that all states would make a “contribution” to the global effort to address climate change. These voluntary, nationally determined, non-binding pledges are the most visible feature of the reorientation of the international climate regime away from its previous emphasis on “top-down” international coordination, and toward a “bottom-up” architecture that provides greater national flexibility in order to induce broader participation. At the same time, however, the agreement to keep the rise in average global temperatures to below 2 degrees Celsius indicates that there is a limit to the quantity of carbon that can be emitted to meet this temperature goal, raising the challenge of how to apportion this carbon “budget” among states. Can a fair distribution of the carbon budget be achieved amid voluntary contributions? This paper first discusses the tension between the top-down distribution that a carbon budget approach generally implies, and the bottom-up institutional elements of the new climate architecture. Second, it reviews the alternative ways in which considerations of fairness have been integrated into the design of the Paris Agreement, and the rise of “national circumstances” as the context for fairness. Finally, this paper points to the increased role for normative argumentation in this bottom-up world, where new norms embedded in the Paris Agreement, especially relating to increases in national ambition, take on greater importance in efforts to achieve an equitable response to climate change.

Speaking of Psychology: Psychologists Address Climate Change

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kaitlin Luna ◽  
Kim Mills ◽  
Brian Dixon ◽  
Marcel de Sousa ◽  
Christine Roland Levy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Address Climate Change

Impacts of Paris Agreement on Russian economy

2018 ◽  
pp. 76-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. A. Makarov ◽  
C. Henry ◽  
V. P. Sergey
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Economic Policy ◽  
Growth Rates ◽  
Paris Agreement ◽  
Gdp Growth ◽  
Russian Economy ◽  
Climate Policies

The paper applies multiregional CGE Economic Policy Projection and Analysis (EPPA) model to analyze major risks the Paris Agreement on climate change adopted in 2015 brings to Russia. The authors come to the conclusion that if parties of the Agreement meet their targets that were set for 2030 it may lead to the decrease of average annual GDP growth rates by 0.2-0.3 p. p. Stricter climate policies beyond this year would bring GDP growth rates reduction in2035-2050 by additional 0.5 p. p. If Russia doesn’t ratify Paris Agreement, these losses may increase. In order to mitigate these risks, diversification of Russian economy is required.

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