Includes bibliographical references (p. 650-661) and index.
Contents:
Introduction / Jutta Brunnée ... [et al.] -- The scientific basis for climate change liability / Myles Allen -- Overview of legal issues relevant to climate change / Jutta Brunnée ... [et al.] -- Policy considerations / Jutta Brunnée ... [et al.] -- Australia / Ross Abbs, Peter Cashman and Tim Stephens -- China / Deng Haifeng -- India / Lavanya Rajamani and Shibani Ghosh -- Indonesia / Mas Achmad Santosa, Josi Khatarina and Sjarief Rifqi Assegaf -- Japan / Yukari Takamura -- Egypt / Dalia Farouk and Lamiaa Youssef -- Israel / Issachar Rosen-Zvi -- Kenya / Patricia Kameri-Mbote and Collins Odote -- South Africa / Jan Glazewski and Debbie Collier -- European Union law / Ludwig Krämer -- Germany Hans-Joachim Koch, Michael Lührs and Roda Verheyen -- Poland / Bartosz Kuraś ... [et al.] -- England / Silke Goldberg and Richard Lord -- Russia / Fiona Mucklow Cheremeteff ... [et al.] -- Canada / Meinhard Doelle, Dennis Mahony and Alex Smith -- United States of America / Michael B. Gerrard and Gregory E. Wannier -- Brazil / Yanko Marcius de Alencar Xavier and Pedro Lucas de Moura Soares -- Mexico / José Juan González Marquez.
Summary:
"As frustration mounts in some quarters at the perceived inadequacy or speed of international action on climate change, and as the likelihood of significant impacts grows, the focus is increasingly turning to liability for climate change damage. Actual or potential climate change liability implicates a growing range of actors, including governments, industry, businesses, non-governmental organisations, individuals and legal practitioners. Climate Change Liability provides an objective, rigorous and accessible overview of the existing law and the direction it might take in seventeen developed and developing countries and the European Union. In some jurisdictions, the applicable law is less developed and less the subject of current debate. In others, actions for various kinds of climate change liability have already been brought, including high profile cases such as Massachusetts v. EPA in the United States. Each chapter explores the potential for and barriers to climate change liability in private and public law"-- Provided by publisher.
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