PART IV: USING IEL TO ADDRESS CLIMATE CHANGE
Class 7 (July 20): Introduction to Climate Change
* MIDTERM EXAM
* EL, Chapter 7, “Ozone Depletion,” pp. 226-245.
* RS, Chapter 3, “Pollution and Climate Change in a Full World,” pp. 43-73.
* Gelbspan, “History at Risk: The Crisis of Climate Change,” Reprinted from The Heat is On (1999).
* GE, Betsill, “Global Climate Change Policy: Making Progress or Spinning Wheels?,” pp. 103-121 (reserve).
* TREATY: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, “Climate Change 2001, Synthesis Report.”
Class 8 (July 25): Law of Climate Change and Kyoto Protocol
* EL, Chapter 6, “Global Climate Change,” pp. 174-225.
* “Carbon Sinks: Why they Undermine the Kyoto Protocol,” 1 page
* Eileen Claussen, “Climate Change: Present and Future,” Ecology Law Quarterly 27(4) (February 2001), pp. 1373-82.
* Najam, Huq, and Sokona, “Climate Negotiations Beyond Kyoto: Developing Countries Concerns and Interests,” Climate Policy, 3, 221-31 (2003).
* Figueres and Ivanova, “Climate Change: National Interests or a Global Regime?” Global Environmental Governance, pp 1-17.
* UNFCCC, Caring for Climate 2005: A Guide to the Climate Change Convention and Kyoto Protocol, pp. 6-37.
* Gardiner, Stephen, “The Global Warming Tragedy and the Dangerous Illusion of the Kyoto Protocol”, Ethics & International Affairs, 18:1, pp. 23-39.
* TREATY: Kyoto Protocol
For more information on CC and Kyoto:
Official site of the UNFCCC: www.unfccc.int
The UN Convention on Climate Change (complete text): http://unfccc.int/resource/conv/conv.html
IISD ENB coverage: http://www.iisd.ca/linkages/voltoc.html
A Guide to the Climate Change Convention and Its Kyoto Protocol: http://unfccc.int/resource/guideconvkp-p.pdf
Other resources: http://unfccc.int/resource/convkp.html#bg
KEY:
GEIL = The Global Environment and International Law, Joe DiMento, University of Texas Press (2003).
RS = Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment, James Gustave Speth, Yale University Press (2004).
GPB = Green Planet Blues: Environmental Politics From Stockholm to Johannesburg, Ken Conca and Geoffrey Dabelko, Westview (2004).
ED = Environmental Diplomacy: Negotiating More Effective Global Agreements, Lawrence E. Susskind, Oxford University Press (1996).
GEG = Global Environmental Governance, James Gustave Speth & Peter M. Haas, Island Press (2006) (Just came out, book itself not on reserve—only pdf files).
GE = The Global Environment: Institutions, Law and Policy, Regina Axelrod, David Downie, and Norman Vig, CQ Press (2005).