1st Edition

Climate Change Finance and International Law

By Alexander Zahar Copyright 2017
180 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

180 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

182 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Since 2010, a significant quantity of international climate change finance has begun to reach developing countries. However, the transfer of finance under the international climate change regime – the legal and ethical obligations that underpin it, the constraints on its use, its intended outcomes, and its successes, failures, and future potential – constitutes a poorly understood topic.... Read more

Introduction

  1. Climate finance: Concepts and institutions
  2. Climate finance in legal scholarship
  3. Legal obligations of states relating to climate finance
  4. State performance of obligations on climate finance
  5. The philosophy of the control of nature

Biography

Alexander Zahar is Professor of Law at the Research Institute of Environmental Law, Wuhan University, China. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Climate Law (Brill).

This book gives an unprecedented and imaginative scholarly analysis of an important emerging field of international law, which is critical to advancing a solution to the problem of climate change."
Tianbao Qin, Wuhan University, China

"In the crowded field of climate law scholarship, Dr Zahar's book makes a significant breakthrough in our understanding of the legal context of financing solutions to global warming, especially in regard to multilateral funding mechanisms and support for developing countries. This excellent book will further cement his global reputation as one of the leading climate law scholars."
Benjamin J. Richardson, University of Tazmania, Australia