Van Asselt, Harro and Sindico, Francesco and Mehling, Michael (2008) Global climate change and the fragmentation of international law. Law and Policy, 30 (4). pp. 423-449. ISSN 0265-8240Full text not available in this repository. (Request a copy from the Strathclyde author)
Born into the wider body of international law, the climate regime needs to be understood in light of preexisting regimes. By drawing on the current debate about fragmentation in international law, this article highlights challenges for international lawyers and policymakers in navigating the relationship between the climate regime and the biodiversity regime, and the relationship between the climate regime and the multilateral trading system. This article concludes that a narrow focus on conflicts misrepresents the multifaceted nature of climate change and precludes an adequate jurisprudential understanding of the relationship between the climate regime and other regimes. An improved understanding, particularly with respect to interactions with the biodiversity regime, requires a broadening of the debate that takes account of the institutional aspects of these relationships that may allow enhanced political cooperation and coordination. Further, international law, and in particular the emerging concept of systemic integration, has the potential to make a positive contribution to the climate-trade interplay.
|Keywords:||international law, global climate change, climate change, global politics, Law, Sociology and Political Science, Law|
|Department:||Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > School of Law > Law|
|Depositing user:||Pure Administrator|
|Date Deposited:||23 Jul 2012 09:03|
|Last modified:||04 May 2016 22:13|