Abstract:

The urgency of climate change necessitates considering what types of governance
options are available when the existing approaches are failing. The United Nations Framework Climate Change Convention (UNFCCC) Secretariat’s Principal Legal Adviser, Dan Bondi Ogolla, notes that the great challenge of climate change requires complex and vigorous international cooperation solutions guided by effective and clear political and legal frameworks. International climate change law, however, remains in its infancy. The Oxford Handbook of International Climate Change Law aims to provide a comprehensive analysis of this emerging field while explaining the complexities that complicate international efforts surrounding this essential field of policy and law. A book designed not only to educate, it advances scholarship and policy in an array of connected interdisciplinary areas, by both provoking the legal principles founding major legislation and international agreements, as well as challenging established concepts in legal scholarship that go far beyond climate law. Established notions in areas such as tort, climate finance, energy law and economics, to name a few, are all challenged with intensive critique and recommendations. This radical and fascinating collection of chapters is amongst the best contemporary literature available in climate change law.