Climate Change Law

The federal and national regulation of emissions

In the previous weeks we were busy with discussing…

Human+fundamental rights and climate change

Sources of human+fundamental rights

International investment law and climate change

Beyond the UNFCCC — Climate Change and International Law

Political rights, civil disobedience, climate change and the law

(updated 3 December 2020)

In the previous weeks we often talked about institutional actors such as international organizations, governments, courts, administrative agencies and companies…

(8) National and regional regulation of emissions II: regulatory strategies and legal resistance

In the last class we argued that the regulation of greenhouse gas emissions cannot be separated from broader political dynamics. They may create “co-benefits” (i.e…

“Market-based” approaches to regulating emissions: cap-and-trade and carbon tax

(updated 28 November 2020)

In this blogpost we look at the so-called “market-based” approaches to regulating GHG emissions: cap-and-trade (=emission trading systems, or…

The international climate change regime

(updated 5 September 2019)

This blogpost deals with the international legal regime “specialized” on climate change, namely the UNFCCC (UN Framework Convention on Climate Change). It was created already a quarter-century ago, in the…