Category: Research Article
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De-Risking Renewable Energy Investments in Developing Countries: A Multilateral Guarantee Mechanism
In view of the persistent climate finance gap and significant investment needs for the global transition, this article proposes a multilateral guarantee mechanism to de-risk renewable energy investment in developing countries, and estimates potential savings.
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The Legal and Economic Case for an Auction Reserve Price in the EU Emissions Trading System
Price uncertainty and persistent price extremes are frequently cited as shortcomings of the EU ETS. This article assesses the legal and economic rationale for an auction reserve price to support market integrity.
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Governing Cooperative Approaches under the Paris Agreement
As Parties to the Paris Agreement negotiate operational rules for cooperative approaches under Article 6, this contribution analyses alternative governance options with emphasis on accounting and institutional safeguards.
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Teaching Climate Law: Trends, Methods, and Outlook
As climate change increasingly affects the design and application of the law, this article surveys the landscape of climate law education, recommending interactive and experiential methods amid doctrinal adjustments.
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Global Environmental Law: Context and Theory, Challenge and Promise
This symposium article situates global environmental law within global law debates, addressing questions about its normativity and legitimacy alongside its jurisgenerative potential.
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Designing Border Carbon Adjustments for Enhanced Climate Action
As the intersection between climate and trade policy attracts renewed attention, this article in the American Journal of International Law develops design principles for border carbon adjustments that balance mitigation outcomes, administrative burdens, and legal constraints.
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Making the International Trading System Work for Climate Change: Assessing the Options
This Environmental Law Reporter article maps post-Paris trade–climate frictions and identifies legal and institutional options to improve regime coherence, reduce disputes, and support clean energy transitions within WTO constraints.
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Carbon Pricing and Deep Decarbonisation
Carbon pricing at politically feasible levels rarely delivers deep reductions on its own. This article surveys conceptual and observed constraints on carbon pricing, and argues in favor of situating pricing within broader policy portfolios to achieve meaningful emissions reductions in line with net-zero trajectories.
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Linking Heterogeneous Climate Policies (Consistent with the Paris Agreement)
This article develops options to link heterogeneous climate policy instruments under a Paris-consistent climate policy architecture, addressing design compatibility and institutional constraints for durable policy linkage and improved international cooperation.
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Ambitious Climate Policy through Centralization? Evidence from the European Union
Article assessing whether EU-level centralization produces more ambitious climate outcomes, using empirical evidence to evaluate competence allocation, implementation dynamics, and political constraints on ambition.