1st Edition
The Third Pillar of International Climate Change Policy On ‘Loss and Damage’ after the Paris Agreement
Introduction: Loss and Damage after Paris: All Talk and No Action?
Morten Broberg and Beatriz Martinez Romera
1. Insurance schemes for loss and damage: fools’ gold?
Linnéa Nordlander, Melanie Pill and Beatriz Martinez Romera
2. Parametric loss and damage insurance schemes as a means to enhance climate change resilience in developing countries
Morten Broberg
3. Non-economic loss and damage: lessons from displacement in the Caribbean
Adelle Thomas and Lisa Benjamin
4. Loss and damage in the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (Working Group II): a text-mining analysis
Kees van der Geest and Koko Warner
5. Loss & damage from climate change: from concept to remedy?
Meinhard Doelle and Sara Seck
6. Between negotiations and litigation: Vanuatu’s perspective on loss and damage from climate change
Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh and Diana Hinge Salili
7. Interpreting the UNFCCC’s provisions on ‘mitigation’ and ‘adaptation’ in light of the Paris Agreement’s provision on ‘loss and damage’
Morten Broberg
8. A human rights-based approach to loss and damage under the climate change regime
Patrick Toussaint and Adrian Martínez Blanco
9. Loss and damage: an opportunity for transformation?
Erin Roberts and Mark Pelling
Biography
Morten Broberg is Professor of International Development Law and Honorary Jean Monnet Professor, University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Law.
Beatriz Martinez Romera (PhD, MSc, LLM) is Associate Professor of Law at the Center for International Law and Governance, the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen. She has worked on environmental and climate change law and governance since 2010, in particular the regulation of greenhouse gas emissions from international aviation and maritime transport. She is the founder and manager of the Transatlantic Maritime Emissions Research Network (TRAMEREN) and member of the Bar Association of Madrid, Spain.
"The Third Pillar of International Climate Change Policy is an excellent compilation of scholarship and a useful resource for anyone seeking to understand the treatment of loss and damage within and beyond the international climate regime. The chapters are informative, engaging, and often innovative. The editors have successfully curated a collection of scholarship that offers a robust picture of the ongoing efforts to operationalize loss and damage. I highly recommend this book."
- Melissa Powers, Lewis & Clark Law School, Portland, OR, USA
