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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Climate Change Law"”.
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A critical assessment of Nigeria's Climate Change Law
Climate change refers to the significant variation or variability in climate that has persisted and measured over a period of time. It has been identified as one of the greatest threats facing the planet today. These variations are caused majorly by anthropogenic factors such as the emission of …
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The distribution of rights and responsibilities under international climate change law: an examination of the equity approach advanced by African states
Mapping global climate change negotiations from 1992 to 2015, this thesis set out to examine how African states have sought to interpret the principle of equity within international climate change negotiations and the extent to which climate change treaties, from the United Nations Framework …
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The Global 'Political Voice Deficit Matrix': What Role for International Law?
… voice’, and the role that international law could and should assume to address these challenges. The first two chapters undertake a rigorous analysis of normative theories of democracy to examine the democratic objectives which political voice serves; and explore its transnational …
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UNILATERAL TRADE-RELATED CLIMATE MITIGATION MEASURES AND WTO LAW: A SYSTEMIC PERSPECTIVE
Climate change is one of the most challenging and urgent crises affecting our world. Already in the 1980s, States qualified the phenomenon as a ‘global concern of humankind’ requiring timely action and cooperation. Since then, States have repeatedly asserted that climate change mitigation, and thus …
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Jungtinių Tautų ir Europos Sąjungos teisinės priemonės sprendžiant klimato kaitos problemas /
Climate change is caused by global warming, an increase in the average air temperature of the world. Continued warming can harm the economy of certain regions and damage ecosystems. The adoption of the Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 1992 was a major step forward in tackling the …
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A Brazilian Emissions Trading Scheme: modelling a legal framework to secure its environmental integrity and ensuring effective reduction of greenhouse gas emissions
… economy. As part of its efforts to mitigate climate change, the Brazilian Government has developed an ambitious voluntary greenhouse gas emissions reduction target and a climate change policy, the Brazilian Climate Change Policy, which foresees that a future Brazilian Emission Reduction …
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City-level law and governance for water security in South Africa
… water challenges owing to urbanisation, climate change, and a confluence of social, economic, political, technical, and governance problems. These challenges are significantly impacting the provision of urban water services, exacerbating flood and drought risks, and compromising the …
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Responsibility Sharing in International Refugee Law: Towards Differentiated Legal Obligations
This Thesis is a study on the law and practice of international cooperation and responsibility sharing for refugees, both as it is and as it should be, with a strong focus on the latter. Despite the existence of a general duty of states to cooperate to protect refugees in international law, there …
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“Green” public procurement policies, climate change mitigation and international trade regulation: an assessment of the WTO Agreement on Government Procurement
… issues arising in the inter-relationship between climate change law and policy on the one hand, and international trade regulation on the other. The focus is government procurement. It looks at “green” government procurement (GPP) policies and practices used by the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol as …
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Towards a New Energy Charter: Re-imagining International Investment Treaties for a Just and Sustainable Energy Transition
… the ECT, the treaty is seen as a barrier to climate action and no longer fit for purpose. This thesis looks at what (if any) lessons can be learnt from the failure of the renegotiation process and how these lessons can inform attempts to develop a new, more sustainable international energy …