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 Working Group I applied a variety of scenarios to global climate models and used the results to predict:59 [U]nder the IPCC Business-as-Usual (Scenario A) emissions of greenhouse gases, a rate of increase of global mean temperature ...
... IPCC Working Group I applied a variety of scenarios to global climate models and used the results to predict:59 [U]nder the IPCC Business-as-Usual (Scenario A) emissions of greenhouse gases, a rate of increase of global mean temperature ...
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... IPCC Working Group II recently contributed a report on impacts, adaptations and mitigation of climate change to the IPCC's Second Assessment Report on Climate Change. It considered vulnerability to climate change under the headings ...
... IPCC Working Group II recently contributed a report on impacts, adaptations and mitigation of climate change to the IPCC's Second Assessment Report on Climate Change. It considered vulnerability to climate change under the headings ...
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... IPCC Working Group I:85 Future unexpected, large and rapid climate system changes . . . are, by their nature, difficult to predict. This implies that future climate changes may also involve 'surprises'. In particular from the nonlinear ...
... IPCC Working Group I:85 Future unexpected, large and rapid climate system changes . . . are, by their nature, difficult to predict. This implies that future climate changes may also involve 'surprises'. In particular from the nonlinear ...
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... IPCC Working Group I made some important predictions concerning stabilisation of the three primary greenhouse gases. As regards carbon dioxide it stated that:97 If carbon dioxide emissions are maintained at near current (1994) levels ...
... IPCC Working Group I made some important predictions concerning stabilisation of the three primary greenhouse gases. As regards carbon dioxide it stated that:97 If carbon dioxide emissions are maintained at near current (1994) levels ...
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... IPCC Working Group II's contribution to the 1995 Second Assessment Report focused primarily on options to reduce emissions and enhance sinks of greenhouse gases. In the Group's opinion, significant reduction in greenhouse gas emissions ...
... IPCC Working Group II's contribution to the 1995 Second Assessment Report focused primarily on options to reduce emissions and enhance sinks of greenhouse gases. In the Group's opinion, significant reduction in greenhouse gas emissions ...
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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