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thebehaviourof states isnotonlymotivatedbybinding, enforceable law.So-called
soft law, i.e. law that is not legally binding, has often proved to bemore effective
thanbinding,enforceable international law.Althoughthepaceof theprogressof the
WIMworkstreamcanbe frustrating, it shows that the issueofL&Disbeingpicked
upby thepoliticalbodies.
Previous treatiesand institutionshavedevelopedfrompoliticalbodiesandstren-
uousnegotiations—thisevolutionmightalsocometruefor the issueofL&D.More-
over, it seemsthateffortsat thenational levelsare increasing.While theoverwhelm-
ing amount of the cases have been dismissed, it shows that public awareness is
increasing.Mostly, it is not the science that is failing, it is the politicalwill of the
states. Understandably, what they fear is escalating responsibility for historic and
presentemissions.However,Gsottbaueretal.(2017)arguethataliabilityregimecan
undercertaincircumstances indeedpromoteprecaution topreventL&D.Moreover,
law is flexible and can be adapted to the specific concerns of the states—provided
thereispoliticalwill tonegotiation(seealsoLees2016).Thus,whilelegalresponses
toclimatechange inducedL&Dmightnotbeasclearnow, theyprobablywill beat
a laterpoint in time.
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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