The Challenge of International and Comparative Law in the Context of Climate Justice and Climate Change Law
Post Copenhagen Scenario
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This book provides a comparative study of the environmental laws and environmental liability regimes in each of Brazil, India, China, Africa, The European Union and the United States. The author considers various linkages between the existing international law framework and emerging multilateral norms regarding climate change to explore potential delivery mechanisms for a more united conception of sustainable development in the climate change context.
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Readers will have contact with a multi-disciplinary approach and an overview of the tools the legal discipline of Comparative Law offers to the climate change debate. The book considers the current gaps in international law by arguing that a Comparative Law analytical framework can homogenise the application of international law in the climate change law context.
About the Author
As a Professor, Scientific Researcher and Legal consultant in International Environmental Law – Climate Change, Energy and Agriculture, the author presents an integral and broad view about the climate change current issues and show some new paths to practical solutions.
She took part in Copenhagen Climate Change Conference in 2009 and could feel the political and legal barriers for the achievement of a global climate agreement. She has worked as a researcher at British Institute of International and Comparative Law – Institute of Advances Studies of University of London. This book is a consolidation of more than 8 years of work as a Visiting Academic and Researcher at University of Oxford (UK), London School of Economics – LSE (UK), Stetson University Program (USA) and Frëie Universität Berlin (Germany).
The author is also a Post-Doctor at University of Lisbon, UL (Portugal) and a PhD at University of Sao Paulo (BR).