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The Complexities of Multipolar Approaches to Climate Change: Lessons from Litigation and Local Action

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Hari M. Osofsky
Hari M. Osofsky*
Affiliation:
University of Minnesota Law School
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Divergent Responses to Climate Change in a Multipolar World
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Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting , Volume 107 , 2013 , pp. 73 - 75
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2014

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References

* Mr. Cameron and Mr. Levi did not contribute remarks for the Proceedings.

1 See United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, May 9, 1992, S. Treaty Doc. No. 02–38, 1771 U.N.T.S. 107 [hereinafter UNFCCC], available at http://untreaty.un.org/English/notpubl/unfccc_eng.pdf; Draft decision -/CP.17, Establishment of an Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action (Advance unedited version), Nov./Dec, 2011, http://unfccc.int/files/meetings/durban_nov_2011/decisions/application/pdf/cop 17_durbanplatform.pdf (last visited Jan. 20, 2011); Outcome of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties Under the Kyoto Protocol, Dec. 8, 2012, Draft Decision-/CMP.8, FCCC/KP/CMP/2012/L.9, available at http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/2012/cmp8/eng/109.pdf.

2 For an assessment of the emissions gap published at the time of the 2011 Durban COP, see Bridging the Emissions Gap: A Unep Synthesis Report (Joseph Alcamo et al. eds., 2011), at http://www.unep.org/pdf/UNEP_bridging_gap.pdf.

3 For more detailed analysis of these issues, see Osofsky, Scales of Law, supra note t†.

4 Jacqueline Peel & Hari M. Osofsky, Transition to a Clean Energy Future: The Role of Climate Change Litigation in Shaping Our Regulatory Path (forthcoming 2014) (supported by $250,000 grant from Australian Research Council).

5 Osofsky, Suburban Climate Change Efforts, supra note †.

6 Id.

7 I am supported in these efforts by the 2013–2014 Fesler-Lampert Chair in Urban and Regional Affairs at the University of Minnesota.

8 See Statute of the International Court of Justice art. 38, June 26, 1945, 59 Stat. 1055, 33 U.N.T.S. 993.

9 Osofsky, Scales of Law, supra note †.

10 Kunzig, Robert, Climate Milestone: Earth’s CO2 Level Passes 400 PPM, Nat’l Geographic Daily News, May 9, 2013 Google Scholar, http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/energy/2013/05/130510-earth-co2-milestone-400-ppm/.

11 See Lazarus, Richard J., Super Wicked Problems and Climate Change: Restraining the Present to Liberate the Future, 94 Cornell L. Rev. 1153 (2009)Google Scholar.

12 Osofsky, Scales of Law, supra note †.