By Robin Craig,Stephen Miller

The Intergovernmental Panel on weather Change’s newest set of news, often observed jointly because the 5th evaluate record, current major info and findings approximately weather switch. yet what position does legislation play in addressing and responding to those findings? This publication, the second one by way of the Environmental legislations Collaborative, an association of environmental legislations professors, specializes in the connection among legislation and the 5th review record in hopes of bridging this hole. This book’s chapters are illustrative of the overpowering variety of criminal matters that weather switch creates. many of the contributions stay at once tied to the textual content of the IPCC’s experiences, whereas others specialize in weather swap extra ordinarily. jointly, this quantity contributes to a confident and valuable dialogue approximately the way to handle the weather switch challenge.

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