International Climate Change Law

Kati Kulovesi, German Yearbook of International Law the Bodansky, Brunne, and Rajamani textbook, written by three of the field's top experts, provides tough competition and remains the key reference on international climate change law.

Maria Gavouneli, Yearbook of International Environmental Law The authors have a long and illustrious record on climate change issues, and the reader would naturally expect to find therein the highest level of scholarship, set out in meticulous detail, and the broadening insight the practical involvement with climate negotiations brings to any doctrinal work. The final product delivers on each one of these points. ... the authors have produced a comprehensive analysis of a whole new area of international law, both discussing in depth the full extent of its regulatory content and debating its interface with the complex and polycentric context of the other international regimes that embrace and, ultimately, reinforce it. And, in spite of their concerns as to the transient nature of their research in a subject more than usually prone to the trials and tribulations of political controversy, they have indeed given us a tour de force on the matter. Highly recommended.

Catherine Redgwell, Chichele Professor of Public International Law, University of Oxford This book is a comprehensive and authoritative account of international climate change law by three towering figures in the field. In addition to providing incisive legal analysis of the climate regime as it has evolved from the Framework Convention and Kyoto Protocol to the recent Paris Agreement, it offers a broader perspective on climate governance and the intersection of climate change law with other areas of international regulation.

The authors have brought their unique blend of academic expertise and practical experience of the climate regime to produce the definitive work on international climate change law, and what will surely be viewed as an instant classic. Written in erudite yet accessible fashion, this is a must have for students, scholars and practitioners of international climate change law.

Philippe Sands Q C, Professor of Law, University College London On the "defining issue of our age", Bodansky, Brunne and Rajamani offer the definitive guide to the history, process and substance of international law's effort to address climate change - and the prospects we face. Measured, authoritative and readable, to the Paris Agreement and, hopefully, beyond.

Jacob Werksman, Principal Advisor, DG Climate Action, European Commission I can think of no better team of "academic practitioners" to bring a balanced insight to this surprisingly complex and subtle area of international law. I am sure even those involved in these negotiations will find new nuance and insight in this book.

Daniel Bodansky, Lincoln Professor of Law, Ethics, and Sustainability, Sandra Day O'Conner College of Law; Professor of Law, School of Sustainability, Arizona State University, Jutta Brunnee, Metcalf Chair in Environmental Law, University of Toronto, Lavanya Rajamani, Lavanya Rajamani, Professor, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi Daniel Bodansky is the Lincoln Professor of Law, Ethics, and Sustainability at the Sandra Day O'Conner College of Law and Professor of Law at the School of Sustainability at Arizona State University. Bodansky is an expert on international environmental law. He has worked extensively on the international climate change negotiations, including as a senior negotiator in the US Department of State and as a consultant to the UN climate change secretariat and the Pew Center on Global Climate Change. He co-edited the Oxford Handbook of International Environmental Law, and is the author of the Art and Craft of International Environmental Law, which was awarded the 2011 Harold and Margaret Sprout Award from the International Studies Association as the best book published that year in the area of international environmental politics. Jutta Brunnee holds the Metcalf Chair in Environmental Law at the University of Toronto. Professor Brunnee is co-author of Legitimacy and Legality in International Law: An Interactional Account (Cambridge University Press, 2010), which was awarded the American Society of International Law's 2011 Certificate of Merit for preeminent contribution to creative scholarship. Professor Brunnee has authored numerous articles on topics of international environmental law and international law, and was the co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of International Environmental Law (Oxford University Press 2007). She is a member of the International Law Association's Committee on Legal Principles relating to Climate Change and of World Conservation Union's (IUCN) Environmental Law Commission. Lavanya Rajamani is a Professor at the Centre for Policy Research in New Delhi. She was previously a University Lecturer in Environmental Law, and Fellow & Director of Studies in Law at Queens' College, Cambridge, where she lectured in international and European environmental law, international law and tort. She is the author of Differential Treatment in International Environmental Law (Oxford University Press, 2006). Lavanya Rajamani is the Rapporteur for the International Law Association's Committee on Legal Principles Relating to Climate Change, and an Indian member of the Academic Advisory Group of the Section on Energy, Environment, Natural Resources and Infrastructure Law of the International Bar Association. She has worked as a consultant to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Secretariat, the Indian Ministry of Environment and Forests, the Danish Ministry of Climate Change and Energy, and the World Bank, amongst others.

1. Introduction ; 2. Setting International Climate Change Law against the Backdrop of International Law & International Environmental Law ; 3. Law-Making, Texts, Language, and Interpretation ; 4. Evolution and Architecture of the International Climate Change Regime ; 5. The Framework Convention on Climate Change, 1992 ; 6. Principles of International Climate Change Law ; 7. The Kyoto Protocol, 1997 ; 8. Designing the post-2012 International Climate Change Regime ; 9. Multi-level Governance of Climate Change ; 10. Mapping the Edge: International Climate Change Law and Other Areas of International Regulation ; 11. Conclusion - Emerging Trends in International Climate Change Law