Implementing Climate Change Policy

The chapters in this volume provide an interdisciplinary and comparative analysis of the implementation of climate change policies worldwide to assess whether they are meeting the aims set out in the ‘Paris Agreement’. The first part compares climate policies employed by the EU, the USA, Latin America, Russia, China, the Middle East and Africa. The second explores ways of improving key regulatory mechanisms to increase the effectiveness of greenhouse gas mitigation and adaptation measures. This book argues that the international community should improve the effectiveness of enforcement mechanisms from the standpoint of secondary norms through an integrated approach. It is an indispensable resource for undergraduate and graduate students of environmental policy and governance, public policy, law and political science, as well as academics and policy makers. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available as Open Access. Check our website – Cambridge Core – for details.

Ottavio Quirico is a professor with the School of Law at the University of New England and the Australian National University’s Centre for European Studies and a senior researcher at the University for Foreigners in Perugia. Inter alia, he has been a visiting professor at the University of Pisa’s Department of Political Science, the Raoul Wallenberg Institute at the University of Lund, and the Law Department at the Federal University of Paraiba in João Pessoa. He has held several other senior positions in universities across the globe and has acted as a consultant to the United Nations. He is, inter alia, the co-author of Australian Uniform Evidence Law (Cambridge University Press, 2nd ed., 2022).

Walter Baber is a professor in the Environmental Sciences and Policy Program at the Graduate Center for Public Policy and Administration at California State University–Long Beach, USA. He is also an affiliated professor at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute at the University of Lund, Sweden, and an associate of the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance at the University of Canberra, Australia. He has held distinguished positions at universities and institutions worldwide. He is the co-author of Democratic Norms of Earth System Governance: Deliberative Politics in the Anthropocene (Cambridge University Press, 2020) and editor of Environmental Human Rights in the Anthropocene (Cambridge University Press, 2022).