'International Law and Climate Change' by Professor Catherine Redgwell

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Description:	The Lauterpacht Centre for International Law (LCIL), University of Cambridge hosts a regular Friday lunchtime lecture series on key areas of International Law. Previous subjects have included UN peacekeeping operations, the advisory jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice, the crime of agression, whaling, children and military tribunals, and theories and practices for proving individual responsibility criminal responsibility for genocide and crimes against humanity. This lecture, entitled 'International Law and Climate Change', was delivered at the Lauterpacht Centre on Friday 18th November 2011 by Professor Catherine Redgwell, Professor of Law, University College London (UCL). For more information about the series, please see the LCIL website at www.lcil.cam.ac.uk

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The Lauterpacht Centre for International Law (LCIL), University of Cambridge hosts a regular Friday lunchtime lecture series on key areas of International Law. Previous subjects have included UN peacekeeping operations, the advisory jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice, the crime of agression, whaling, children and military tribunals, and theories and practices for proving individual responsibility criminal responsibility for genocide and crimes against humanity.

This lecture, entitled 'International Law and Climate Change', was delivered at the Lauterpacht Centre on Friday 18th November 2011 by Professor Catherine Redgwell, Professor of Law, University College London (UCL). For more information about the series, please see the LCIL website at www.lcil.cam.ac.uk


Created:	2011-11-18 15:28
Collection:	LCIL International Law Seminar Series MOVED
Publisher:	University of Cambridge
Copyright:	T.C. Grant
Language:	eng (English)
Keywords:	International Law; Climate Change; Environmental Law; Kyoto Protocol; Lauterpacht Centre for International Law;


Abstract:	Climate change has been described as ‘the most significant environmental challenge of our time’ and a ‘truly global issue’ since the location of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, in terms of their climate change effects, are relatively unimportant. The main climate change instruments, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Kyoto Protocol (KP), are themselves recognised as ‘important international environmental milestones’ in the development of international environmental law. In general international environmental law texts, these instruments are conventionally addressed in chapters devoted to air pollution, ozone depletion and climate change, as part of a discussion of environmental issues relating to the atmosphere. Increasingly, however, there is significant activity outside the climate change regime to address the impacts of climate change, and of climate change responses, on other areas of international law. This is distinct from the explicit recognition in Article 2(2) of the KP of the role of other bodies in reducing specific emissions (the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) for aircraft emissions and the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) for ship emissions). This lecture will consider the reasons for and the extent of this activity external to the climate change regime, focussing on but not restricted to the broader field of international environmental law.

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Climate change has been described as ‘the most significant environmental challenge of our time’ and a ‘truly global issue’ since the location of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, in terms of their climate change effects, are relatively unimportant. The main climate change instruments, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Kyoto Protocol (KP), are themselves recognised as ‘important international environmental milestones’ in the development of international environmental law. In general international environmental law texts, these instruments are conventionally addressed in chapters devoted to air pollution, ozone depletion and climate change, as part of a discussion of environmental issues relating to the atmosphere. Increasingly, however, there is significant activity outside the climate change regime to address the impacts of climate change, and of climate change responses, on other areas of international law. This is distinct from the explicit recognition in Article 2(2) of the KP of the role of other bodies in reducing specific emissions (the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) for aircraft emissions and the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) for ship emissions). This lecture will consider the reasons for and the extent of this activity external to the climate change regime, focussing on but not restricted to the broader field of international environmental law.

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