Research Handbook on Climate Change Mitigation Law

Edited by Leonie Reins, Erasmus Law School, Erasmus University Rotterdam and Jonathan Verschuuren, Tilburg Law School, the Netherlands

Contents

PART I CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION LAW –
ARCHITECTURE AND GOVERNANCE
1 Climate change mitigation and the role of law 2
Leonie Reins and Jonathan Verschuuren
2 The evolving architecture of global climate law 17
Harro van Asselt, Michael Mehling and Kati Kulovesi
3 Climate change mitigation and the precautionary principle 43
Nicolas de Sadeleer

PART II CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION LAW AND POLICY IN
THE REGIONS
4 The European Union and its rule-creating force on the European
continent for moving to climate neutrality by 2050 at the latest 58
Marjan Peeters and Delphine Misonne
5 Climate change mitigation law and policy in the United States and Canada 102
Katrina Fischer Kuh and Michael Charles Leach
6 Climate change mitigation law and policy in Central and South America 137
Juliana Zuluaga Madrid
7 Climate change mitigation law and policy in the Asia-Pacific 155
Alexander Zahar
8 Climate change mitigation law and policy in the Middle East 178
Mehdi Piri
9 Climate change mitigation law and policy in the BRICS 195
Rafael Leal-Arcas, Mariam Al Zarkani, Lina Jbara, Ruqaya Mohamed
Mubwana, Marianna Margaritidou and Angela van der Berg
10 Climate change mitigation law and policy in Africa 239
Olivia Rumble and Andrew Gilder

PART III OVERARCHING LEGAL TOOLS FOR CLIMATE CHANGE
MITIGATION
11 Climate finance after Paris 262
David Driesen and Cinnamon Carlarne
12 Incentivizing carbon transition – a comparison of carbon trading in the
EU and China 282
Stefan E. Weishaar, Kateryna Holzer and Bingyu Liu
13 Climate litigation in the context of mitigation: an evolving jurisprudence 306
Patrick Parenteau
PART IV SECTORS
14 Regulatory and policy instruments to promote decarbonization in the
energy sector 337
Sirja-Leena Penttinen
15 Transportation’s trinity and climate change mitigation 362
Tanveer Ahmad, Paul Fitzgerald and Jeffrey J. Smith
16 Cities and climate change mitigation law from a polycentric and
comparative perspective 398
Cathrin Zengerling, Debora Sotto and Oliver Fuo
17 Agriculture, forestry and other land use (AFOLU) 432
Jonathan Verschuuren
18 Carbon majors, social choice, and anticommons: addressing climate change
mitigation policy formation in the industrial sector 456
Roy Andrew Partain
19 Waste management 481
Geert Van Calster and Luna Aristei
20 Greenhouse gas removal 501
Tracy Hester and Kirsten Williams

Index