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4 - Policy considerations

from Part I - Legal, scientific and policy aspects

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2012

By
Jutta Brunnée ,
Silke Goldberg ,
Richard Lord  and
Lavanya Rajamani
Edited by
Richard Lord ,
Silke Goldberg ,
Lavanya Rajamani  and
Jutta Brunnée
Jutta Brunnée
Affiliation:
Associate Dean of Law (Graduate) and Professor of Law and Metcalf Chair in Environmental Law, University of Toronto
Silke Goldberg
Affiliation:
Senior Associate in Herbert Smith’s Global Energy practice and a Research Fellow in Energy Law at Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (Netherlands)
Lavanya Rajamani
Affiliation:
Professor at the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi. She was previously a university Lecturer in Environmental Law, and Fellow and Director of Studies in Law at Queens’ College, Cambridge
Richard Lord
Affiliation:
Brick Court Chambers
Silke Goldberg
Affiliation:
Herbert Smith LLP
Lavanya Rajamani
Affiliation:
Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi
Jutta Brunnée
Affiliation:
University of Toronto
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Summary

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4.01This chapter examines briefly the political, economic and regulatory contexts in which liability for climate change may be relevant, and seeks to provide a short summary of key national and international policy considerations, in so far as these are relevant to the existence of various bases for climate change liability.

4.02Climate change liability does not exist in a vacuum. There are two related aspects of context. The first is the inherent nature of climate change, which has come in little more than twenty years from political obscurity to occupy centre stage as ‘the defining human development challenge for the 21st century’.

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Climate Change Liability
Transnational Law and Practice
 , pp. 50 - 64
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2011

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Brunnée, J.Coping with Consent: Law-Making under Multilateral Environmental AgreementsLeiden Journal of International Law 15 2002 1Google Scholar

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  • Policy considerations
    • By Jutta Brunnée, Associate Dean of Law (Graduate) and Professor of Law and Metcalf Chair in Environmental Law, University of Toronto, Silke Goldberg, Senior Associate in Herbert Smith’s Global Energy practice and a Research Fellow in Energy Law at Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (Netherlands), Richard Lord, Lavanya Rajamani, Professor at the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi. She was previously a university Lecturer in Environmental Law, and Fellow and Director of Studies in Law at Queens’ College, Cambridge
  • Edited by Richard Lord, Silke Goldberg, Lavanya Rajamani, Jutta Brunnée, University of Toronto
  • Book: Climate Change Liability
  • Online publication: 05 June 2012
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139084383.006
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  • Policy considerations
    • By Jutta Brunnée, Associate Dean of Law (Graduate) and Professor of Law and Metcalf Chair in Environmental Law, University of Toronto, Silke Goldberg, Senior Associate in Herbert Smith’s Global Energy practice and a Research Fellow in Energy Law at Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (Netherlands), Richard Lord, Lavanya Rajamani, Professor at the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi. She was previously a university Lecturer in Environmental Law, and Fellow and Director of Studies in Law at Queens’ College, Cambridge
  • Edited by Richard Lord, Silke Goldberg, Lavanya Rajamani, Jutta Brunnée, University of Toronto
  • Book: Climate Change Liability
  • Online publication: 05 June 2012
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139084383.006
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  • Policy considerations
    • By Jutta Brunnée, Associate Dean of Law (Graduate) and Professor of Law and Metcalf Chair in Environmental Law, University of Toronto, Silke Goldberg, Senior Associate in Herbert Smith’s Global Energy practice and a Research Fellow in Energy Law at Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (Netherlands), Richard Lord, Lavanya Rajamani, Professor at the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi. She was previously a university Lecturer in Environmental Law, and Fellow and Director of Studies in Law at Queens’ College, Cambridge
  • Edited by Richard Lord, Silke Goldberg, Lavanya Rajamani, Jutta Brunnée, University of Toronto
  • Book: Climate Change Liability
  • Online publication: 05 June 2012
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139084383.006
Available formats
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