"Preface" [2012] ELECD 732; in Rayfuse, Rosemary; Scott, V. Shirley (eds), "International Law in the Era of Climate Change" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012)

Book Title: International Law in the Era of Climate Change

Editor(s): Rayfuse, Rosemary; Scott, V. Shirley

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781849800303

Section Title: Preface

Number of pages: 2

Extract:

Preface
We begin with a disclaimer. This is not a book about the international
climate change legal regime. Those whose interests lie primarily in detailed
analyses of the international climate regime and the on-going negotiations
under the auspices of the United Nations Framework Convention on
Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol would be advised to look else-
where. Rather, this book is about the impact of climate change, and our
responses to it, on both the substance and processes of the broader corpus of
public international law. The underlying premise of this book is that climate
change, and our responses to it, will impact directly or indirectly on
virtually every regime of international law and, ultimately, on the basic
principles which underlie the international legal system as a whole.
This book therefore deliberately diverts attention away from the inter-
national climate regime per se to focus, instead, on the substantive changes
to other specific international legal regimes that have been or will be
required, or are likely to come about, as a result of both climate change itself
and the responses of the international community to climate change.
Leading specialists were asked to map the current, likely, possible, and
recommended changes within various substantive and systemic areas of
international law. Authors were asked to consider, inter alia, the con-
sequences of climate change for the subject matter of the regime, whether
the current regime permits or even encourages behaviours that exacerbate
climate change, what changes to the regime might ...