Zahar Climate Change Finance and International Law

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-134-61756-2
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 182 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research

Since around 2010, a significant quantity of international climate change finance has been reaching developing countries. However, the transfer of finance under the international climate-change regime—the legal and ethical obligations that underpin it, the constraints on its use, its intended outcomes, and its successes, failures, and future potential — constitutes a poorly understood topic.

Climate Change Finance and International Law fills this gap in the legal scholarship. The book analyses the legal obligations of UNFCCC parties to financially support qualifying developing countries to pursue globally significant mitigation and adaptation outcomes, as well as the obligations of the latter under the regime of financial support. Through case studies of climate finance mechanisms and a multitude of other sources, this book delivers a rich legal and empirical understanding of the implementation of states’ climate finance obligations to date. It pays particular attention to the impacts of climate finance and the extent to which safeguards against its potential negative impacts have been complied with by states.

The book will be of interest to scholars and students of international law and policy, international relations, and the maturing field of climate change law.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zahar, Alexander

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Umweltökonomie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Making visible a new branch of international law Part 1. Climate-change finance and its significance 1. Definitions and sources of information 2. Climate-finance institutions and the generation of financial flows 3. Importance of climate finance as a policy instrument 4. Climate finance in legal literature Part 2. Legal obligations of states relating to climate finance 5. General principles, international agreements, and state practice 6. The substantive part of climate-finance obligations 7. Reporting, assessment, and compliance arrangements for climate finance 8. Supplementary legal constraints on the provision and use of climate finance Part 3. State performance of climate-finance obligations, 2010-2015 9. Climate-finance estimates of need, finance supplied, and reporting 10. State supervision of risks, safeguards, and other supplementary constraints 11. Impacts of climate finance: What is known Conclusion. A legally compliant (and rational) international regime for climate finance

Über Autor(innen)

Dr Alexander Zahar is Senior Lecturer at Macquarie Law School, Macquarie University, Australia. He is an officially appointed Expert Reviewer of state greenhouse gas inventories and national communications under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.