Governing climate change : global cities and transnational lawmaking / Jolene Lin.

"On 12 December 2015, when French Foreign Minister, Laurent Fabius, announced that a new climate change agreement had been signed, cheers erupted in the negotiation hall and elsewhere around the world. States had finally concluded more than two decades of difficult multilateral negotiations. However...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Cambridge studies on environment, energy and natural resource governance.
Main Author: Lin, Jolene (Author)
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Series:Cambridge studies on environment, energy and natural resource governance.
Subjects:
Climate change mitigation > International cooperation.
Climatic changes > Law and legislation.
Municipal corporations.
Global warming > Law and legislation.
Global warming > International cooperation.
Climatic changes > International cooperation.
Environmental law, International.
LAW / Environmental.
Globalisierung.
Internationales Umweltrecht.
Klimaänderung.
Stadt.
Umweltschutz.
Physical Description:viii, 214 pages ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • 1. Global Cities, Climate Change and Transnational Lawmaking
  • 2. Theoretical Framework
  • 3. The Rise of the City in International Affairs
  • 4. City Action on Climate Change
  • 5. Transnational Urban Climate Governance via Networks: the case of C40
  • 6. Cities as Transnational Lawmakers
  • 7. A Normative Assessment of Urban Climate Law
  • 8. Conclusion.