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Keeping the Arctic White: The Legal and Governance Landscape for Reducing Short-Lived Climate Pollutants in the Arctic Region

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

Yulia Yamineva  and
Kati Kulovesi
Yulia Yamineva
Affiliation:
Centre for Climate, Energy and Environmental Law, Law School, University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu (Finland). Email: [email protected].
Kati Kulovesi
Affiliation:
Centre for Climate, Energy and Environmental Law, Law School, University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu (Finland). Email: [email protected].
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Abstract

Reducing emissions of short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs) – in particular, black carbon and methane – is a promising option for slowing global and regional warming in the short term, while at the same time reducing local air pollution. This mitigation opportunity seems to be particularly relevant in the Arctic context. The article provides a comprehensive overview and a critical assessment of the state of international law and governance relevant to the reduction of SLCP emissions in the Arctic. The article demonstrates that current legal and governance regimes for reducing SLCP emissions in the Arctic are complex and fragmented, which raises questions about the scope for this option for climate change and air pollution mitigation to reach its full potential. Nevertheless, the article concludes that fragmentation in this policy domain is of a cooperative or synergistic nature and therefore not problematic, provided that greater harmonization of legal instruments and enhanced cooperation between institutions are achieved. It also suggests options for strengthening international law and governance on SLCPs. Although the focus of the article is regional, many of its conclusions are relevant for the global regulation of SLCPs.

Keywords

Climate lawShort-lived climate pollutantsFragmentationArctic
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Article
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Transnational Environmental Law , Volume 7 , Issue 2 , July 2018 , pp. 201 - 227
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© Cambridge University Press 2018 

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Footnotes

We would like to thank Harro van Asselt and Sabaa Khan from the Centre for Climate, Energy and Environmental Law of the University of Eastern Finland, Sunday Leonard from the Climate and Clean Air Coalition, and two anonymous reviewers for TEL for their helpful comments on earlier drafts. This research is part of the research project ‘Keeping the Arctic White: Regulatory Options for Reducing Short-Lived Climate Pollutants in the Arctic’, funded by the Academy of Finland (Decision 285389).

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110 Ibid., p. 11.

111 E.g., Biermann et al., n. 11 above.

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143 Arctic Council, n. 86 above.

144 E.g., in the technical expert meeting on non-CO2 GHGs, available at: http://unfccc.int/bodies/awg/items/8420.php#Present.

145 See CCAC Secretariat, ‘UN Climate and Environment Heads say SLCP Reduction is Necessary to Protect Climate: A Joint Opinion Piece by C. Figueres (UNFCCC) and A. Steiner (UNEP)’, 25 Mar. 2016, available at: http://www.ccacoalition.org/en/news/un-climate-and-environment-heads-say-slcp-reduction-necessary-protect-climate.

146 As noted in Section 3.6, the CCAC does not engage in lawmaking activities.

147 See also Biermann et al., n. 11 above.

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149 Ibid.

150 This can occur, e.g., if one legal regime is perceived as stronger than others – the issue which has been discussed in relation to the trade and environment debate: see van Asselt, n. 130 above, at 336–37.

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153 van Asselt, n. 130 above, p. 339.

154 Byrne, n. 137 above, p. 43.

155 Ibid., p. 44.

156 Yamineva & Romppanen, n. 136 above.

157 Ibid.

158 Ibid.

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