Climate law and developing countries : legal and policy challenges for the world economy / [edited by] Benjamin J. Richardson ... [et al.].

Includes bibliographic references and index.

1.Introduction: climate law and developing countries /​ Stepan Wood /​ Heather McLeod-Kilmurray /​ Yves Le Bouthillier /​ Benjamin J. Richardson
Pt. I Climate Justice
2.Climate change, differentiated responsibilities and state responsibility: devising novel legal strategies for damage caused by climate change /​ Sumudu Atapattu
3.India's constitutional challenge: a less visible climate change catastrophe /​ Deepa Badrinarayana
4.Promoting justice within the international legal system: prospects for climate refugees /​ Angela Williams
5.Climate change and indigenous peoples in the South Pacific: the need for regional and local strategies /​ Eric Kwa
Pt. 2 Expanding the Scope of the Climate Change Legal Regimes
6.Supporting adaptation in developing countries at the national and global levels /​ Jolene Lin
7.Designing a REDD mechanism: the TDERM triptych /​ Kirsten Macey /​ William Hare /​ Claire Stockwell
Contents note continued: 8.The role of marine 'forests' and soils as carbon sinks: enhanced bio-sequestration as a mitigation strategy to help avoid dangerous climate change /​ Robert Fowler
9.Adaptation to climate change to save biodiversity: lessons learned from African and European experiences /​ Jonathan Verschuuren /​ Saja Erens /​ Kees Bastmeijer
Pt. 3 The Clean Development Mechanism and Mitigation Strategies
10.The deadlock of the Clean Development Mechanism: caught between sustainability, environmental integrity and economic efficiency /​ Christina Voigt
11.Beautifying Africa for the Clean Development Mechanism: legal and institutional issues considered /​ Damilola S. Olawuyi
12.Policy and legal dimensions of CDM projects in the forestry sector: implications for climate change mitigation and adaptation in Uganda /​ Emmanuel B. Kasimbazi
13.Brazilian policy on biodiesels: a sound means of mitigating climate change? /​ Carolina Dutra /​ Solange Teles da Silva
Contents note continued: Pt. 4 Climate Policy Bridging the North and South
14.Improving citizen responsibility in the North and its consequences for the South: voluntary carbon offsets and government involvement /​ Marjan Peeters
15.Climate and trade in a divided world: can measures adopted in the North end up shaping climate change legislative frameworks in the South? /​ Francesco Sindico
16.Climate change in the European Union development cooperation policy /​ Marie-Pierre Lanfranchi /​ Sandrine Maljean-Dubois.

The editors (law professors from York U. and the U. of Ottawa, Canada) present 16 papers from a September 2008 conference examining legal aspects of climate change and climate change mitigation in developing countries. Topics addressed include state responsibility for damage caused by climate change, climate change and Indian constitutional rights, justice for climate refugees within the international legal system, regional and local strategies for indigenous peoples in the South Pacific, climate agreement mechanisms that will allow for adaptation to new scientific developments (such as better understanding of bio-sequestration), legal mechanisms for balancing economic efficiency versus sustainability and environmental integrity in the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), policy and legal dimensions of CDM projects in Uganda's forestry sector, the development and regulation of biodiesels in Brazil, the regulation of the voluntary carbon offset market in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, the compatibility of US legislative initiatives and the international trade regime, and lessons for climate change cooperation from the European Union development cooperation policy.