Research Handbook on the Law of the Paris Agreement

Edited by Alexander Zahar, Professor of International Law, China-ASEAN Legal Research Center, Southwest University of Political Science and Law, China

Contents:

1 Optimism and pessimism about the Paris Agreement 1
Alexander Zahar
2 Operational readiness of the Paris Agreement’s institutional framework 21
Christoph Schwarte and Olivia Tattarletti
3 The legal principles of the Paris Agreement: familiarity in novelty 43
Leslie-Anne Duvic-Paoli and Mara Wendebourg
4 ‘Collective’ state obligation to achieve the objective of the Paris
Agreement: can it bridge the gap between collective ambition and
individual state action? 60
Niklas S. Reetz and Sandrine Maljean-Dubois
5 A legal standard for state mitigation efforts: is national discretion bound
to shrink over time? 82
Christopher Campbell-Duruflé
6 The Paris Agreement’s facilitative approach: a compliance-inducing design? 104
Imogen Forster and Anna Huggins
7 Ambition-raising and ambition-reducing features of the Paris Agreement 126
Rueanna Haynes and Lisa Benjamin
8 The Paris Agreement’s ‘nationally determined contribution’: law and practice 143
Alexander Zahar
9 The Paris Agreement’s contribution to the development of the law on
adaptation 167
Lauren Nishimura
10 The use of elements of the Paris Agreement and IPCC reports in climate
litigation 195
Meinhard Doelle, with Sara Seck and Rose Klug
11 Is the Paris Agreement a human rights treaty? 215
Benoit Mayer
12 The market mechanisms of the Paris Agreement and the Kyoto
Protocol: a legal comparison 240
Géraud de Lassus St-Geniès
13 Constituent norms of the enhanced transparency framework 262
Daria Shapovalova
14 The Paris Agreement’s enhanced transparency framework: state
practices and compliance challenges 279
Hao Zhang
15 Governing international climate finance and investment: the Paris
Agreement and related international and transnational mechanisms 296
David Rossati and Alexander Zahar
16 The European Union’s implementation of the Paris Agreement 323
Gareth Davies
17 Large-scale carbon dioxide removal under the Paris Agreement: toward
a principled approach 343
Neil Craik
18 Ensuring mutual supportiveness of the Paris Agreement with other
multilateral environmental agreements: a focus on ocean-based climate
action 362
Elisa Morgera and Mitchell Lennan
19 Social movements and the Paris Agreement: an imperfect vehicle for
incremental change? 381
Cinnamon P. Carlarne and Keith H. Hirokawa
20 Beyond the Paris Agreement: need for new thinking to tackle the
climate crisis 403
Philippe Cullet