An Ecological Approach to International Law: Responding to the Challenges of Climate ChangeRoutledge, 2008 M01 28 - 464 pages An Ecological Approach to International Law shows that international environmental law is fundamentally flawed and not equipped to meet global challenges. The book examines international legal responses to global climate change by analysing key concepts such as the doctrine of state sovereignty, the law on state responsibility, environmental rights and common heritage of mankind. |
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... IPCC IUCN NGOs OECD PGA RMA UDHR UN UNCED UNECE UNEP. ABBREVIATIONS. African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights Association of South-East Asian Nations Chlorofluorocarbons Common heritage of life Common heritage of mankind European ...
... IPCC IUCN NGOs OECD PGA RMA UDHR UN UNCED UNECE UNEP. ABBREVIATIONS. African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights Association of South-East Asian Nations Chlorofluorocarbons Common heritage of life Common heritage of mankind European ...
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... IPCC') was established in 1988 by the United Nations Environment Programme and the World Meteorological Organization ... IPCC's work. Since then, Working Group II has increased its mandate to include review of the feasibility of ...
... IPCC') was established in 1988 by the United Nations Environment Programme and the World Meteorological Organization ... IPCC's work. Since then, Working Group II has increased its mandate to include review of the feasibility of ...
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... IPCC stated that it was certain that:12 [E]missions resulting from human activities are substantially increasing the atmospheric concentrations of the greenhouse gases: carbon dioxide, methane, the chlorofluorocarbons and nitrous oxide ...
... IPCC stated that it was certain that:12 [E]missions resulting from human activities are substantially increasing the atmospheric concentrations of the greenhouse gases: carbon dioxide, methane, the chlorofluorocarbons and nitrous oxide ...
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... IPCC states that; '[c]arbon dioxide has been responsible for over half the enhanced greenhouse effect in the past, and is likely to remain so in the future'.17 Recent figures identify carbon dioxide as contributing to 54 per cent of the ...
... IPCC states that; '[c]arbon dioxide has been responsible for over half the enhanced greenhouse effect in the past, and is likely to remain so in the future'.17 Recent figures identify carbon dioxide as contributing to 54 per cent of the ...
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... IPCC Working Group I was already able to identify a fall in the growth rates of CFCs, which it attributes to the impact of these two convention regimes.42 (iv) Nitrous oxide43 Of the anthropogenic contributions to the greenhouse effect ...
... IPCC Working Group I was already able to identify a fall in the growth rates of CFCs, which it attributes to the impact of these two convention regimes.42 (iv) Nitrous oxide43 Of the anthropogenic contributions to the greenhouse effect ...
Contents
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3 State responsibility for environmental harm | 61 |
4 International liability for injurious consequences arising out of acts not prohibited by international law | 144 |
5 Human rights and the environment | 196 |
6 The common heritage of mankind | 258 |
an opportunity lost? | 323 |
8 Conclusion | 349 |
Appendices | 353 |
Bibliography | 407 |
Index | 431 |
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