Climate change poses threats of great seriousness and urgency for humanity and the planet. As an issue that cuts across all domains of human activity, creates scientific uncertainties, and leads to wide-ranging socio-economic and environmental impacts, it also challenges conventional rules, sources, structures, institutions and approaches in international law. This volume contains the work of the 2022 Centre for Studies and Research on this important and timely topic of climate change and the testing of international law. Using the challenge of climate change as an experimental laboratory for...
Climate change poses threats of great seriousness and urgency for humanity and the planet. As an issue that cuts across all domains of human activity,...
The global nature and seriousness of the threats to biodiversity have created a pressing need for international law. In 1992, under the aegis of the United Nations, States adopted the Convention on Biological Diversity. Numerous sectoral and/or regional conventions coexist alongside it, as well as a body of customary rules. The study of international biodiversity law also leads us to go beyond the issues of protection and preservation, to address the questions raised by the use and exploitation of biodiversity. In this respect, international biodiversity law interacts, and sometimes...
The global nature and seriousness of the threats to biodiversity have created a pressing need for international law. In 1992, under the aegis of the U...
