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Rached, Danielle Hanna. "The international law of climate change and accountability." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/28696.
Full textGigot, Elisabeth. "International law and biofuel issue related to climate change." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Juridiska institutionen, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-96171.
Full textWendland, Johannes. "International human rights law and climate change: the case for a duty to mitigate climate change." Master's thesis, Faculty of Law, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/33976.
Full textVerheyen, Roda. "Climate change damage and international law : prevention duties and state responsibility /." Leiden [u.a.] : Nijhoff, 2005. http://www.gbv.de/dms/sbb-berlin/50232872X.pdf.
Full textTedenljung, Amanda. "Climate Change and Forced Migration : How Climate Refugees fit into EU Asylum Law." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Teologiska institutionen, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-412272.
Full textJosephson, Per. "Common but differentiated responsibilities in the climate change regime : historic evaluation and future outlooks." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Juridiska institutionen, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-145767.
Full textParadis, Mark. "Is it just hot air?: the security discourse on climate change." Thesis, McGill University, 2009. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=66833.
Full textRésumé:Les gouvernements, les scientifiques et les médias sont presque unanimes au sujet des changements climatiques. Selon eux, ces changements menacent la sécurité étatique. Malgré ce consensus, les résultats de la coopération pour résoudre ce problème ont été décevants. Cette thèse vise à expliquer cette divergence entre les déclarations et les actions des états en construisant une théorie néoréaliste de coopération au sujet des changements climatiques. La thèse comprend deux hypothèses centrales. Premièrement, alors que le niveau de vulnérabilité d'un état aux changements climatiques augmente, l'état sera plus enclin à coopérer. Deuxièmement, tandis que la menace militaire diminue, il est plus probable qu'un état coopère. Ces deux hypothèses centrales sont complétées par des hypothèses secondaires qui proposent une relation entre des variables au niveau systémique et la coopération. Des méthodes statistiques ont été utilisées pour tester ces relations. En fin de compte, les résultats ne supportent aucuns des relations proposées.
vom, Holtz Dorothee Freiin. "‘The role of the United Nations Security Council in addressing the challenges brought by Climate Change'." Master's thesis, Faculty of Law, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/32671.
Full textLuhandjula, Yasmine. "Assessing the Prospects for Climate Action in the form of Climate Litigation as a tool to safeguard Human Rights." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/76560.
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Libebe, Eugene Lizazi. "Climate change governance in the SADC region: towards development of an integrated and comprehensive framework policy or protocol on adaptation." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12907.
Full textThe scientific community has shown that climate change is occurring and is caused mainly by human activities. This state of affairs has various societal and environmental implications which has demanded attention and raised concerns about the future of human life on earth. Increasing concerns about climate change has led the international community, regional bodies and national governments to adopt legal instruments and other mechanisms to address the phenomenon. In these efforts and measures mitigation and adaptation have been the prominent response strategies. However, adaptation to climate change has experienced much less attention than mitigation. This research provides a conceptual analysis of adaptation, and discusses some socio-economic and cultural implications of climate change in the Southern African Development Community (SADC), in order to show why adaptation is a better response to climate change. The research outlines and assesses the relevant developments in international, African and mainly SADC’s responses to climate change through adaptation in their legal and institutional frameworks. This includes related developments in Namibia and South Africa as SADC Member States. The study advocates for regional consensus to design a holistic policy framework and effective governance on adaptation to climate change in the SADC, as one of the world’s most vulnerable regions. As such, the study further examines the aspect of good governance and institutional frameworks as essentials for climate change adaptation in the SADC context. It concludes that it is necessary for SADC member states to cooperate in formulating an integrated and comprehensive protocol on adaptation.
Sylva, Ntumba Mbathshi. "The interaction between trade and climate change law and policy : from potential conflict to mutual supportiveness." University of the Western Cape, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/4633.
Full textTrade and climate change intersect in many ways. Aside from the broad debate as to whether economic growth and trade adversely affect the environment, linkages are recognized between existing rules of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and rules established in various multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs). Controlling greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions promises to be a top priority on both national and international agendas, and special attention has been given to the relationship between the WTO and the emerging international regime on climate change. The unilateral use of carbon-related import restrictions risks triggering retaliation by trading partners. It also raises questions about whether such trade measures are consistent with countries’ obligations under the WTO. The WTO status of measures imposed not on products directly but on the methods by which they were produced, which is the case in carbon-related trade restrictions, is not clear. Whether such violations can be excused by exceptions for measures taken with the purpose to protect human life or health, or the environment, is an open question. There is also the question of whether solutions to the problem of the WTO’s inconsistency with regard to trade-related measures in climate change policy can be found. This paper explores the relationship between trade and climate change regimes, the potential areas of conflict, and what can be done to promote mutual gains. Apart from exploring the key issues and examining the conceptual underpinning of the two regimes, revealing important symmetries as well as some divergence, the paper is aimed at finding a more universal and long lasting solution to the WTO’s inconsistency of carbon-related to GHG emissions, both within and outside the WTO.
Geldenhuys, Benjamin Basson. "The North –South divide in international environmental law after the Paris agreement." University of the Western Cape, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/8068.
Full textGlobal climate change is a serious, severe, and potentially irreversible problem. If no actions are taken to curb greenhouse gas emissions, global temperatures and sea levels will rise, wreaking havoc on earth, particularly in developing countries. The Stockholm Declaration of 1972 facilitated the first international consensus concerning the application of CBDR to international environmental problems. This was in reaction to the developing countries refusal to adhere to the same standards as the developed countries as they perceived this as a burden to their economic growth, which is unjust due to the developed countries historical culpability.
Doelle, Meinhard. "From hot air to action? climate change, compliance and the future of international environmental law /." Halifax, Nova Scotia : Dalhousie University, 2005. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1014321911&sid=2&Fmt=2&clientId=78006&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
Full textDurrant, Nicola Anna May. "The role of law in responding to climate change : emerging regulatory, liability and market approaches." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2008. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/48907/1/Nicola_Durrant_Thesis.pdf.
Full textBishop, Kirsten. "Fairness in international environmental law : accommodation of the concerns of developing countries in the climate change regime." Thesis, McGill University, 1999. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=30285.
Full textBishop, Kirsten. "Fairness in international environmental law, accommodation of the concerns of developing countries in the climate change regime." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ64261.pdf.
Full textSwanepoel, Ernesta. "The place of international law and relevant bodies in addressing climate change displacement – the move towards cooperation." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/9096.
Full textAnthropogenic climate change is no longer a debate. The Summary for Policymakers of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report states ‘it is extremely likely that human influence has been the dominant cause of the observed warming since the mid-20th century.’ Throughout climate change science, literature, negotiations and debates run a golden threat: The effects of climate change will result in grave consequences for humans. Effects of climate change can range from less water availability, decrease in crop yields, negative impacts on health to rising sea-levels, change in tropical storms and cyclone frequency or intensity, changes in rainfall regimes, increases in temperatures, changes in atmospheric chemistry and the melting of mountain glaciers. While the impacts and effects of climate change vary, environmental degradation, sea-level rise, conflict over resources, droughts and floods may ultimately result in people moving, either temporarily or permanently, within or across borders.
Sylva, Ntumba Batshi. "The interaction between trade and climate change law and policy : from potential conflict to mutual supportiveness." Thesis, Uiversity of the Western Cape, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/5140.
Full textThis paper explores the relationship between trade and climate change regimes, the potential areas of conflict, and what can be done to promote mutual gains. Apart from exploring the key issues and examining the conceptual underpinning of the two regimes, revealing important symmetries as well as some divergence, the paper is aimed at finding a more universal and long lasting solution to the WTO's inconsistency of carbon-related to GHG emissions, both within and outside the WTO.
Wahrby, Johan. "The smoking dragon : A study of how China frame their climate change policy." Thesis, Linköping University, Department of Water and Environmental Studies, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-9969.
Full textIn the international climate change negotiations it has been hard to find a sustainable agreement about how to address the anthropogenic impacts on the climate. This is because the issue is very complicated and comprises many social and economic aspects. Because of the struggling in the international negotiations is it necessary to analyze how the climate change issue is understood in different regions and countries of the world. The purpose of this thesis is to analyse how actors within the climate policy sphere in China frame the climate change issue. In the near future, China will become the world’s largest emitter of carbon dioxide and with a population of 1.3 billion people; China is one of the key countries in the international climate negations. The thesis analyses how two key actor groups - decision makers and scientists connected to the Chinese climate change administration - frame the climate change issue in semi-structured interviews. The respondents frame the climate change issue as a large obstacle for a future Chinese development, both economically and socially. To address climate change in China the respondents think that technology innovations and transfer of technology from the developed countries will be very important. Therefore the respondents think it is vitally important to continue with the international climate negotiations in the future.
Berggren, Isabelle. "Disappearing island states and human rights. Preservation of statehood and human rights in times of climate change." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Juridiska institutionen, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-158175.
Full textGeldenhuys, Benjamin Basson. "The North –South divide in International Environmental Law after the Paris Agreement." University of the Western Cape, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/8067.
Full textGlobal climate change is a serious, severe, and potentially irreversible problem. If no actions are taken to curb greenhouse gas emissions, global temperatures and sea levels will rise, wreaking havoc on earth, particularly in developing countries. The Stockholm Declaration of 1972 facilitated the first international consensus concerning the application of CBDR to international environmental problems. This was in reaction to the developing countries refusal to adhere to the same standards as the developed countries as they perceived this as a burden to their economic growth, which is unjust due to the developed countries historical culpability. This thesis seeks to establish what the implications are of the dynamic new form of differentiation in terms of the Paris Agreement for the North-South divide in International Environmental Law? The Southern countries have demanded that the North assume responsibility for its immense contribution to major environmental problems (such as climate change), but the North has only grudgingly accepted the principle of common, but differentiated, responsibility on the basis of its superior technical and financial resources while disavowing responsibility on the basis of its historic contributions to these crises. In 1974, through a series of General Assembly resolutions, developing countries sought to overhaul the international legal and economic system and challenge the basic traditions of international law based on the principles of the legal equality and reciprocity to adopt a Declaration on the Establishment of a New International Economic Order (NIEO) and two of the basic tools of the NIEO strategy were the principle of preferential treatment to the benefit of developing countries, and the principle of permanent sovereignty One of the fundamental premises of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) of 1992 and of its Kyoto Protocol of 1997, is that leadership from developed countries in combination with differential treatment in favor of developing countries is the equitable basis on which the international response to climate change was structured. The principle of common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities, the CBDRRC principle finds expression in the Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC), and is the basis of the burden sharing arrangements crafted under the FCCC and its Kyoto Protocol. Scholars argued that the Kyoto Protocol represents the most extreme example of differential treatment between North-South countries and which ultimately resulted in the withdrawal of the United States from the Kyoto Protocol. The Paris Agreement is anchored in equity and also the first to decisively break with the North-South dichotomy by providing for the principle of “common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities, in light of different national circumstances” (CBDRRC-NC). The Paris Agreement is 'nationally determined contributions' (NDCs) that each country intends to achieve. The Paris Agreement operationalises this principle through differentiation tailored to the demands of each issue area in terms of mitigation, adaptation, finance, capacity building, technology, and transparency. The nature and extent of differentiation in the Paris Agreement, however, is distinct from that in the 1992 Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC) and its 1997 Kyoto Protocol. There is in the Paris Agreement a move away from the rigid binary differential obligations to a more dynamic subtle form of differentiation.
Foy, Valencia Pierre Claudio. "Considerations weather on environmental relevant of international conventions." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2014. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/116109.
Full textEn la primera parte se elabora una caracterización de la Convención Marco de las Naciones Unidas sobre el Cambio Climático (CMCC) y su contexto en términos de consideraciones prejurídicas acerca de la diplomacia climática y de consideraciones generales sobre dicha convención. En la segunda parte se abordan, a modo de muestra, referencias sobre las sinergias entre compromisos internacionales y la CMCC y algunas derivaciones jurídicas más específicas.
Olawuyi, Damilola Sunday. "The human rights based approach to climate change mitigation : legal framework for addressing human rights questions in mitigation projects." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:ade6153c-9dc9-4250-8fe5-2ad62ef8ddf8.
Full textSarenmalm, Isabel. "Sustainable Development in International Law and the protection of the Global Commons." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för geovetenskaper, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-325200.
Full textDellinger, Myanna F. "Rethinking «Fuerza Mayor» in a World of Anthropogenic Climate Change." Derecho & Sociedad, 2015. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/118876.
Full textEste artículo aborda la pregunta sobre si los eventos de clima extremo deben servir de base para que los particulares o, incluso los Estados, puedan eximirse de cumplir con sus obligaciones legales.La antigua, pero aún muy viable, institución de la fuerza mayor, puede facultar tanto a las empresas como a los Estados-Nación a eximirse de sus responsabilidades y deberes. Sin embargo, en un mundo donde el cambio climático antropogénico está probado,¿podríamos decir que tales desastres son verdaderamente «naturales»? ¿Acaso tiene sentido, desde un punto de vista legal y fáctico, que se les siga permitiendo a las partes eximirse de responsabilidad legal cuando la ciencia moderna ha demostrado con toda probabilidad que, las personas -no algún misterioso poder universal- han ocasionado la mayoría de los problemas por los que buscamos eximirnos de responsabilidad?La fuerza mayor se basa en la idea de que el «hombre», de alguna manera, se encuentra separado de la «naturaleza». Este artículo cuestiona esta idea y argumenta que, en muchos casos, ya no tiene sentido aplicar la institución de la fuerza mayor. Al menos, los jueces deben ser muy cuidadosos al hacerlo por razones de política pública y asignación de riesgos, así como las partes contratantes deben tener la suficiente precaución al pensar o pretender que pueden ser capaces de eximirse de responsabilidad futura invocando cláusulas de «fuerza mayor».
Malumfashi, Garba Ibrahim. "'Green' public procurement policies, climate change mitigation and international trade regulation : an assessment of the WTO Agreement on Government Procurement." Thesis, University of Dundee, 2010. https://discovery.dundee.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/24c7aef7-074c-48db-877a-f9d22b51d7f5.
Full textDickason, Jozanne. "The evolution of the climate change regime after the Copenhagen Accord / Jozanne Dickason." Thesis, North-West University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/8285.
Full textThesis (LLM (Environmental Law and Governance))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2012
Ferrey, Steven. "Resetting International Law Linkages: COP 20 Mechanisms and Protocols." Derecho & Sociedad, 2015. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/119127.
Full textEl presente artículo revisa las experiencias de programas de promoción de energías renovables en países del sudeste asiático a fin de proponer algunas lecciones aprendidas que puedan ser útiles en el contexto de la Vigésima Conferencia de las Partes de la Convención Marco de las Naciones Unidas sobre el Cambio Climático (COP 20) para la promoción de las energías renovables. Asimismo, revisa las tarifas y mecanismos de promoción utilizados en India, Indonesia y Vietnam, impulsados por el Banco Mundial, como una base para proponer alternativas legales ya probadas. Su utilidad es que las energías renovables pueden ser implementadas dentro de la estructura legal actual del Derecho Ambiental Internacional, la COP 20 es el momento de asegurar fondos y mecanismos jurídicos internacionales que promueven una infraestructura energética sostenible.
Parling, Isabella. "Climate Change Litigation Based on Human Rights : challenges and possbilities in Sweden." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Teologiska institutionen, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-444217.
Full textMahdiansadr, Motaharehsadat. "Legal Protection of the Atmosphere in International Law: Achievements and Lacunas." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/671987.
Full textLa atmósfera se considera un elemento vital para la supervivencia de la humanidad y toda la vida en la Tierra. Por lo tanto, la degradación atmosférica debe ser motivo de grave preocupación para toda la comunidad internacional. Como el recurso natural individual más grande de la Tierra, la atmósfera aún no está sujeta a un régimen legal integral. Esta tesis tiene como objetivo proporcionar una visión general de la condición de la atmósfera y las amenazas que conducen a su degradación asociadas con los humanos; esclarecer el estatus legal de la atmósfera de acuerdo a las medidas legales para la protección atmosférica; estudiar el desarrollo gradual de los marcos e instrumentos jurídicos de protección atmosférica de derecho internacional, como el trabajo de la comisión de derecho internacional sobre la protección de la atmósfera y los tratados de lucha contra la contaminación atmosférica y el cambio climático; a proponer una nueva visión de la protección de la atmósfera como un interés común en lugar del enfoque tradicional de reciprocidad.
The atmosphere is considered a vital element to the survival of humankind and all life on Earth. Therefore, atmospheric degradation has to be a matter of grave concern to all international community. As the Earth’s largest single natural resource, the atmosphere is not subject to a comprehensive legal regime yet. This doctoral thesis aims to provide an overview of the condition of the atmosphere and the threats leading to its degradation associated with humans; to clarifying the legal status of the atmosphere according to legal measures for the atmospheric protection; to study the gradual development of the atmospheric protection legal frameworks and instruments under international law, such as work of the international law commission on the protection of the atmosphere, and treaties on combating air pollution and climate change; to proposing a new view of the protection of the atmosphere as a common interest rather than the traditional reciprocity approach.
Xu, Yixiang. "Implementing climate protection into the legal system of China international and national legal frameworks and the case of road transportation." Marburg Tectum-Verl, 2008. http://d-nb.info/994068824/04.
Full textSamuel, Adedeji Adedayo. "Anticipating pressing issues in trade and climate change policies: a critical analysis of border carbon adjustment measures with WTO law." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2011. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_2366_1360592240.
Full textMugadza, Alois Aldridge. "The legal protection of forests in international environmental law, shortcomings and comparative analysis." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Girona, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/672289.
Full textLa tesis investigará cómo el derecho ambiental internacional existente se relaciona con la protección de los bosques y cuáles son las cuestiones que han obstaculizado la creación de un instrumento importante para la protección de los bosques, ya que las funciones de los bosques son vitales e importantes. Dado que no existe un instrumento internacional vinculante para la protección de los bosques, ¿los países han hecho lo suficiente para proteger los bosques? ¿Qué iniciativas de protección forestal se han llevado a cabo en España, Sudáfrica y Australia? ¿Son estos esfuerzos suficientes y adecuados para ignorar la necesidad de un instrumento forestal? ¿Cuáles son algunas de las lecciones de estos países y sus regímenes legales?
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Claro, Carolina de Abreu Batista. "A proteção dos \"Refugiados Ambientais\" no Direito Internacional." Universidade de São Paulo, 2015. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/2/2135/tde-08042016-155605/.
Full text\"Environmental refugees\" are non-conventional refugees and forced migrants, internally or internationally, temporarily or permanently, in a situation of vulnerability, and that are forced to leave their homes for environmental reasons, of slow or rapid onset, caused by natural or anthropogenic reasons, or a combination of both. Although there is no specific recognition and protection to these migrants under international law on a global scale, some regional legal instruments and national laws recognize and protect them. The main argument of this doctoral thesis is that \"environmental refugees\" are under general protection in certain areas of international law and that the current and future possibilities for specific protection can be found in the primary sources of international law, referred to in Article 38(1) of the Statute of the International Court of Justice. Seven protective pathways for \"environmental refugees\" were identified in international law and in domestic law: by means of (i) humanitarian action, (ii) complementary protection, (iii) national law, (iv) climate justice, (v) shared responsibility, (vi) judicialization of environmental asylum, and (vii) the international treaty. It is also suggested that a comprehensive global environmental migration governance be established, based on international regimes and by action of actors at local, national, regional and international levels, for the implementation of the forms of protection and to meet the needs of \"environmental refugees\" worldwide.
Lyshall, Linda. "Collaboration and Climate Action at the Local Scale." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1303754240.
Full textKengni, Bernard. "Trade and environment: the environmental impacts of the agricultural sector in South Africa." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2012. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_1491_1363781507.
Full textLemoine-Schonne, Marion. "Le mécanisme pour un développement propre du protocole de Kyoto, révélateur des évolutions de la normativité internationale." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013AIXM1008.
Full textWhy are legal norms complied with in practice? In the context of an evolutionary process of complexification of international legal regimes, with emergence of changing forms of normativity, the international climate change regime offers an interesting illustration. As collective answer to the challenge of mitigation of the green house gas emissions at the global level, an open market of carbon credits was created, in order to make attractive and financially interesting the mitigation projects. As a pioneer, the Clean Development Mechanism, one of the flexibility mechanisms of the Kyoto Protocol, is at the disposal of the industrialized States and of the private sector to reduce their carbon emissions in the territory of developing States. This Mechanism gives raise to an intense practice, regulated by a complex normative architecture. This architecture is composed by norms very diverse in nature and scope, designed by the infatuation of the States and private sector. Good practices, codes of conduct, recommendations, as norms, despite their non-binding character, that are particularly effective. Through the tentative of qualification of this legal system, this analysis describes a participative law- making process, where norms are continuously debated among actors. The system organizes new ways in order to ensure legal certainty, whereas the key question of its coherence is raised. This research finally allows envisaging a tool of identification of factors of the legal effectiveness, which could inspire other emerging normative models
Maguire, Rowena. "The international regulation of sustainable forest management : doctrinal concepts, governing institutions and implementation." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2010. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/41688/1/Rowena_Maguire_Thesis.pdf.
Full textMoraes, Gabriela Bueno de Almeida. "O princípio da precaução no direito internacional do meio ambiente." Universidade de São Paulo, 2011. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/2/2135/tde-03092012-111415/.
Full textThe purpose of the precautionary principle is to avoid irreversible damage to the environment and human health by allowing preventive action, even in the absence of scientific certainty regarding the causes or consequences of certain activity. Precaution is an answer to new technologies and phenomena that may promote irreparable and incommensurable impacts and, therefore, need to be reviewed beforehand by the international community, states and individuals. Furthermore, it nurtures popular participation in decision-making regarding what risks are acceptable in a given society and what risks should be avoided. The sociological foundation of this work is Ulrich Becks world risk society. The precautionary principle is analysed under the dogmatic and functional viewpoints: the principles main characteristics and critiques are presented, and I also explore the precautionary principles functions, social efficacy, and legal status. In order to explain the difficulties pertaining to the subject of international environmental law, this thesis analyzes the main theories on legal principles, and concludes that a more suitable theory for international environmental law principles is needed. In the last part, this work demonstrates how the precautionary principle can be operationalized through institutional strengthening, especially of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Climate change is a paradigmatic case, since it demands international preventive action in order to avoid the impacts of global warming, even in the absence of scientific consensus regarding its causes and consequences. By allowing greater democratic participation and by creating space for communication so that public perception can be reflected in legal and political decisions, the institutional arrangement created by the Convention allows for, if imperfectly, a wider discussion about the challenges of climate change. Considering the foundations of Becks theory about reflexive modernization, the political origin of risks and the democratization of discussions on risks, the role of subpolitics in modern society and irreversibility of environmental catastrophes, this work concludes that the precautionary principle is indispensable to law and politics by adding a priori responsibility of possible damages and social participation in future decisions.
Dellaux, Julien. "Le mécanisme visant la conservation des forêts tropicales de la convention-cadre sur les changements climatiques (REDD+) : illustration de l'adaptativité du droit international." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017AIXM0426.
Full textHow International law can regulate complex phenomenon? This question appears particularly relevant if we consider tropical deforestation. Technical issues and the opposite interests of States, stemming from interlinked services provided by forest, had prevented International community to adopt a convention on forests. Nevertheless, climate regime has recently created a so-called mechanism on « reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries and the role of conservation and sustainable management of forests and enhancement of forest carbon stocks in developing countries » (REDD+). The normative framework laid down in decisions of the Conference of the parties has stimulated control improvement on forest resources and wide-ranging reform in developing countries. The study will evaluate the specificities of this normative system by going further its apparent normative weakness. It will expose how International law manage to regulate complex phenomenon by producing adaptive legal system. The study will demonstrate that the specific feature of this system lies in its ability to conciliate two opposite needs: flexibility and legal security
Arnesson, Daniel. "Subsidizing Global Solar Power : A contemporary legal study of existing and potential international incentives for solar PV investments in developing countries." Thesis, Örebro universitet, Institutionen för juridik, psykologi och socialt arbete, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-28555.
Full textMás, Heyd Fernandes. "Ecomigrantes, refugiados ou deslocados ambientais: populações vulneráveis e mudança climática." Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, 2011. http://tede.mackenzie.br/jspui/handle/tede/1030.
Full textDroughts, floods, severe storms, melting ice caps and consequent rise in sea level are some of the consequences of climate change. Concerning the human side of the climate change, some experts estimate that 200 million to 250 million people will be forced off their land by mid-century and the European Union itself has already established that migration pressure will increase substantially due to this issue. Considering this scenario, it becomes urgent that the rights of thousands of individuals and groups of people displaced by the climate change be recognized. Nowadays, there is no framework convention able to provide protection and assistance for those affected populations. In fact, this new category of climate or environmental misallocated persons, refugees or migrants seems to be problematic and controversial. Two different options are presented as a viable legal solution for this impasse: the first one would be to consider them as a type of refugee in this sense the 1951 Convention on the Status of Refugees should be reviewed; the second one points to the direction of a negotiation of a new convention, and therefore a terminological definition based on the human rights law or specifically on the climate change by enhancing the international legal mechanisms for the construction of guiding principles to deal with this new category of misallocated people. This discussion, which is blended with the need of deepening knowledge on the matter of climate and international environmental law, is intrinsically related to the issues of human rights and citizenship, expressed, in a wider range global one where it could be named the matter of global citizenship, as consequence of solidarity among all peoples. Even though there are still possible contradictions between the affirmation of human rights and the classical concept of citizenship, the existence of global matters as the climate change must lead to the affirmation of solidarity among all people.
Secas, inundações, tempestades, derretimento das calotas polares e consequente elevação do nível do mar são alguns dos efeitos das alterações climáticas. Em relação à face humana da mudança climática, especialistas da União Europeia estimam que de 200 a 250 milhões de pessoas serão forçadas a deixar suas terras em meados do século e que a pressão migratória irá aumentar substancialmente em função dessa problemática. Diante desta realidade, torna-se urgente que os direitos de milhares de indivíduos e grupos de pessoas que fazem parte dessas populações afetadas sejam reconhecidos. Atualmente, não existe convenção-quadro que possa oferecer proteção e assistência a tais grupos ou indivíduos. Inclusive, o fato é que esta nova categoria de deslocados, ecomigrantes, refugiados ambientais ou refugiados do clima apresenta-se como problemática e controversa. Duas possibilidades bastante distintas se apresentam como solução jurídica a esse impasse: a primeira seria considerá-los como uma espécie de refugiados - neste sentido, a Convenção de 1951, relativa ao Estatuto dos Refugiados, deveria ser revista; a segunda solução aponta para negociação de uma nova convenção e, portanto, uma adequação terminológica a partir do prisma dos direitos humanos ou especificamente da mudança climática por meio do aprimoramento dos mecanismos jurídicos internacionais existentes para construção de princípios de orientação para lidar com esta nova categoria de pessoas deslocadas. Essa discussão, permeada pela necessidade de aprofundamento de conhecimento sobre a questão do clima e do direito ambiental internacional, relaciona-se intrinsicamente com a problemática dos direitos humanos e cidadania, expressados em um alcance mais amplo que o usual âmbito global onde se destaca o tema da cidadania global, decorrente da solidariedade entre os povos. Ainda que possam existir contradições entre a afirmação dos direitos humanos e o clássico conceito de cidadania, a existência de problemas globais, tal como a mudança do clima, deve conduzir a afirmação da solidariedade entre povos.
Ramos, Érika Pires. "Refugiados ambientais: em busca de reconhecimento pelo direito internacional." Universidade de São Paulo, 2011. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/2/2135/tde-10082012-162021/.
Full textThis thesis has as its background the growing concern about the impacts of global environmental changes and aims the analysis of the human dimension of these changes, which emerge from the scenario of insecurity, risks and uncertainties highlighted with the recent international debate on climate change. The increasingly frequent occurrence of environmental disasters and a gradual deterioration of essential environmental resources, severely compromising the lives and safety of individuals, groups and entire communities around the world as to render them unfit for survival in their homes, create new legal situations which need to be regulated by International Law. In this context, two central points lead this study: the emergence of a new category of people in the international order and the absence of legal protection by the international instruments in force. The difficulties surrounding the consensus on a legal definition and nature of the regime of protection, taking as basis the standards of International Refugee Law, International Law of Human Rights and International Law on the Environment show the limitations of current Public International Law to give a proper treatment of the complexity of the problem. Accordingly, an appropriate international response requires on the one hand, recognition of a special legal status to the new category, and second, the construction of strategies to prevent and combat the multiple causes that force displacements. To fill the existing normative gap, we propose an integrated approach, identifying important elements in the international regimes that can contribute to building an innovative global compromise, compatible with the new international dynamics.
Chandler, Kevin Vachudová Milada Anna. "The climate change stalemate ideological tensions in international climate change negotiations /." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2009. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,2759.
Full textTitle from electronic title page (viewed Mar. 10, 2010). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of a Master of Arts in the Department of Political Science." Discipline: Political Science; Department/School: Political Science.
Pradel, Nicolas. "La politique énergétique extérieure de l'Union Européenne et le droit." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015AIXM1074.
Full textSince 2006, the European Union’s external energy policy has been strengthening significantly. This ambitious EU policy is aimed at ensuring the security of energy supply in the EU and to contribute to more sustainable use of energy around the world. If political dialogue and economic aid are essential, the EU resorts principally to the law in order to liberalise energy markets of the third States in its periphery and to spread its vision of sustainable energy on the international stage. For which reasons does the EU use primarily the law in this policy? Is this instrument efficient? It is these two majors questions that this study addresses
Jaggard, Lyn Denise. "Germany's international relations of climate change." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.420403.
Full textFerri, Federico. "Green economy et droit de l'Union européenne : discipline et perspectives juridiques." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015STRAA011/document.
Full textThe subject of the thesis is the green economy within European Union (EU) Law; the research thus deals with a theme which started been considered only recently. Therefore, the main purpose of the thesis is to define a juridical framework for the green economy within the EU, by studying the meaning of this concept, identifying links with the EU primary Law, examining the way the EU uses its (secondary) law to boost the transition to such model, and prospecting possible (or desirable) scenarios which might appear as a consequence of the taking into consideration of the green economy by the EU itself
Poumo, leumbe Jean-Jacques parfait. "Les déplacés environnementaux : problématique de la recherche d’un statut juridique en droit international." Thesis, Limoges, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015LIMO0066/document.
Full textToday, environmentally displaced persons are becoming more numerous. Their legal status poses several problems at international level. The notion of sovereignty faces to that of obligation to protect; assistance by international community after environmental disasters is becoming the standard. A diagnosis of current international situation, especially in the protection of refugees and in environment law, clearly shows the existing of legal vacuum. The creation of a new legal international instrument for protection of these environmentally displaced persons could be the solution if the social, economic, political and even ideological barriers did not exist. This thesis analyzes the concept of environmentally displaced persons through the problem posed by the research of their legal status in international law. We analyze with legal prospective method, proposed solutions presented by some academics which opens serious reflections for an effective instrument of protection
Lucas, Natalie Rose. "Preventing Climate Change: Game Theory in International Climate Politics." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/297705.
Full textBlustein, Sholam. "Towards a dignified and sustainable electricity generation sector in Australia : a comparative review of three models." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2012. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/63810/1/Sholam_Blustein_Thesis.pdf.
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