Part III: International Environmental Law and Climate Agreements

• DUE: PRESENTATION OF COUNTRY IMPACTS

Priority One Readings

• GEG, Chapter 4, “Environmental Accord: Treaties and IEL”, pp. 82-106.

• Guruswamy, Chapter 1, “Sources and Forms of International Environmental Law,” International Environmental Law, pp. 1-29 (R).

• Sands, “General Principles and Rules of IEL,” Principles of International Environmental Law, 2d, pp. 231-290 (R).

Priority Two Readings

• Review Environmental Law Timeline

• Daniel Bodansky (2001), "International Law and the Design of a Climate Change Regime," International Relations and Global Climate Change, MIT Press, pp. 201-219 (R).

Priority One Readings

• Guruswamy, Chapter 6, "Global Climate Change," International Environmental Law, pp. 174-225.

• United Nations Framework for Climate Change (1992), UNFCCC Convention Treaty

• United Nations (1997), Kyoto Protocol

• Najam, Huq, and Sokona, “Climate Negotiations Beyond Kyoto: Developing Countries Concerns and Interests,” Climate Policy, 3, 221-31 (2003).

• Gwyn Prins and Steve Rayner, "Time to Ditch Kyoto", Nature 449:25, pp. 973-75. 

• Recap of US Global Warming Legislation (to date)

Priority Two Readings

• UNFCCC (2003), Caring for Climate: A Guide to the Climate Change Convention and the Kyoto Protocol

• For international policy background: Beginners Guide to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change: 

• Discussion on Abandoning Kyoto

• Gardiner, Stephen, “The Global Warming Tragedy and the Dangerous Illusion of the Kyoto Protocol”, Ethics & International Affairs, 18:1, pp. 23-39.

• ADDED: California's Draft Plan on GHGs (Executive Summary)

• ADDED: LATimes, "A Climate Threat from Flat Screen TVs"

• ADDED: LATimes, "G-8 Endorses GHG Cuts"

• ADDED: LATimes, "Coral Reefs on Slippery Slope to Slime"