Call for Contributions: New Teaching Resource

We are in the process of developing a new component for the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s Academy of Environmental Law Climate Change Law Teaching Project, a collection of lecture materials.  Readers of this blog are encouraged to submit pertinent materials for posting on the site. This can include note lecture notes, Power [...]

New Book: Carbon Law & Trading

http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Law/EnvironmentalLaw/EnergyandNaturalResourceLaw/?view=usa&ci=9780199732210
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n Carbon Trading Law and Practice , author Scott D. Deatherage provides practitioners with a comprehensive practical guide to the US and international practice of carbon emissions trading. The book includes a comprehensive examination of climate change, emissions trading, international and EU law, other reduction programs, carbon credit financing, and [...]

New series on additionality issues

For those readers who teach advanced climate change courses, the Greenhouse Gas Management Institute’s new three-part paper series on the nettlesome issue of additionality could be an excellent set of readings for students.
Below is a summary by GGMI of the series:
What is Additionality? Part 1: A long standing problem
Part 1 looks at the history of [...]

Paper on Legitimacy/Effectiveness of the UNFCCC

A new paper by the Finnish Institute of International Affairs would be an excellent reading for a law school course or graduate course in international affairs, as it does an excellent job of addressing the interface of procedural questions and institutional legitimacy within the UNFCCC, as well as the nexus of effectiveness and legitimacy.
Among the [...]

Online Climate Change Field Courses

CSDi is announcing the March launch of a diploma module of four online
Community Based Adaptation to Climate Change field courses. These
courses begin by introducing basic climate change concepts, and develop
as participants identify local community vulnerabilities, identify
climate change risks and hazards, investigate appropriate solutions,
design M&E plans, develop full projects, launch and manage them.
Complete information and course [...]

Association for Law, Property and Society

I have just participated in the wonderful 2nd Annual Conference of the Association for Law, Property and Society.  An excellent array of papers from the conference is available here, including several of direct relevance to climate change law and policy.  The 3rd Annual Meeting will be held March 2-3, 2012 — highly recommended for attorneys, [...]

Post-Cancun Analyses

An excellent compilation of analyses of the outcomes at COP16 can be found here on the Triple Crisis blog. There are over 100 sources cataloged in the blog entry.