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Chapter7
LegalResponses toClimateChange
InducedLossandDamage
FlorentinaSimlingerandBenoitMayer
Abstract Legal issues are central to ongoing debates on Loss andDamage asso-
ciatedwith climate change impacts and risks (L&D). These debates shed light, in
particular,ontheremedialobligationsofactorsmostresponsibleforcausingclimate
changetowardsthosemostaffectedbyitsadverseimpacts.Theaimofthischapter is
totakestockof thelegal literatureonthetopic, to identifypotential legalapproaches
toL&D,identifychallengesandtoexplorepossibledirectionsforfurtherresearch.It
looks at the feasibilityofprivate andadministrative climate change litigationwhile
providing examples fromaround theworld. Subsequently,we explore howhuman
rights issues have been applied in international law to address L&D. The discus-
sion particularly addresses the question whether the no-harm rule can be applied
to climate change andwould in fact trigger legal responsibility for greenhouse gas
emissions. In addition,we examine relevant legal actionswith relevance for L&D
taken under theUNFCCC and theWarsaw InternationalMechanism onLoss and
Damage. The chapter concludeswith a synopsis of the various legal responses to
L&Dhighlighting theirpremises, specificchallengesandproposed remedies.
Keywords Climatechange litigation ·Climate regime ·No-harmrule
LossandDamage
7.1 IntroductionandPreliminaryNotes
Legal issuesarecentral to theongoingdebateonLossandDamageassociatedwith
climate change impacts (L&D).ThesedebatesonL&Dshed light, inparticular, on
the remedial obligations of the actorsmost responsible for causing climate change
F.Simlinger (B)
DepartmentofEuropean, International andComparativeLaw,
UniversityofVienna,Vienna,Austria
e-mail: f.simlinger@outlook.com
B.Mayer
FacultyofLaw,TheChineseUniversityofHongKong,HongKong,China
e-mail: bmayer@cuhk.edu.hk
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Loss and Damage from Climate Change
Concepts, Methods and Policy Options
- Titel
- Loss and Damage from Climate Change
- Untertitel
- Concepts, Methods and Policy Options
- Autoren
- Reinhard Mechler
- Laurens M. Bouwer
- Thomas Schinko
- Swenja Surminski
- JoAnne Linnerooth-Bayer
- Verlag
- Springer Open
- Datum
- 2019
- Sprache
- englisch
- Lizenz
- CC BY 4.0
- ISBN
- 978-3-319-72026-5
- Abmessungen
- 16.0 x 24.0 cm
- Seiten
- 580
- Schlagwörter
- Environment, Climate change, Environmental law, Environmental policy, Risk management
- Kategorien
- International
- Naturwissenschaften Umwelt und Klima