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Record Nr.

UNINA9910829004803321

Titolo

Climate change liability : transnational law and practice / / edited by Richard Lord [and others] [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2012

ISBN

1-139-18009-6

1-107-23074-8

1-283-37821-3

9786613378217

1-139-18987-5

1-139-08438-0

1-139-18856-9

1-139-19116-0

1-139-18394-X

1-139-18626-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxiv, 685 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Classificazione

LAW034000

Disciplina

344.04/6342

Soggetti

Liability for climatic change damages

Climatic changes - Law and legislation

Conflict of laws - Liability for environmental damages

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction / Jutta Brunnée, Silke Goldberg, Richard Lord, Lavanya Rajamani -- The scientific basis for climate change liability / Myles Allen -- Overview of legal issues relevant to climate change / Jutta Brunnée, Silke Goldberg, Richard Lord, Lavanya Rajamani -- Policy considerations / Jutta Brunnée, Silke Goldberg, Richard Lord, Lavanya Rajamani -- Australia / Ross Abbs, Peter Cashman and Tim Stephens -- China / Deng Haifeng -- India / Lavanya Rajamani and Shibani Ghosh -- Indonesia / Mas Achmad Santosa, Josi Khatarina and Sjarief Rifqi Assegaf -- Japan / Yukari Takamura -- Egypt / Dalia Farouk and Lamiaa Youssef -- Israel / Issachar Rosen-Zvi -- Kenya / Patricia Kameri-Mbote and Collins Odote -- South Africa / Jan Glazewski and



Debbie Collier -- European Union law / Ludwig Krämer -- Germany / Hans-Joachim Koch, Michael Lührs and Roda Verheyen -- Poland / Bartosz Kuraś, Maciej Szewczyk, Dominik Walkowski, Tomasz Wardyński, Izabela Zielińska-Barloźk. -- England / Silke Goldberg and Richard Lord -- Russia / Fiona Mucklow Cheremeteff, Max Gutbrod, Daria Ratsiborinskaya, Sergei Sitnikov -- Canada / Meinhard Doelle, Dennis Mahony and Alex Smith -- United States of America / Michael B. Gerrard and Gregory E. Wannier -- Brazil / Yanko Marcius de Alencar Xavier and Pedro Lucas de Moura Soares -- Mexico / José Juan González Marquez.

Sommario/riassunto

As frustration mounts in some quarters at the perceived inadequacy or speed of international action on climate change, and as the likelihood of significant impacts grows, the focus is increasingly turning to liability for climate change damage. Actual or potential climate change liability implicates a growing range of actors, including governments, industry, businesses, non-governmental organisations, individuals and legal practitioners. Climate Change Liability provides an objective, rigorous and accessible overview of the existing law and the direction it might take in seventeen developed and developing countries and the European Union. In some jurisdictions, the applicable law is less developed and less the subject of current debate. In others, actions for various kinds of climate change liability have already been brought, including high profile cases such as Massachusetts v. EPA in the United States. Each chapter explores the potential for and barriers to climate change liability in private and public law.