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• Machine generated contents note: 1. Climate finance: concepts and institutions
• 1.1. Introduction
• 1.2. Basic concepts of climate finance
• 1.2.1. Ǹew and additional' climate finance
• 1.2.2. Incremental cost (or àgreed full incremental costs')
• 1.2.3. Adequacy and predictability of climate finance
• 1.2.4. Burden-sharing of climate finance among states
• 1.2.5. Which states contribute climate finance?
• 1.2.6. Which states receive climate finance?
• 1.2.7. Kinds of finance that qualify as state or regime finance
• 1.2.8. category of state-leveraged climate finance
• 1.2.9. Development aid distinguished from climate finance
• 1.2.10. Àccess' to climate finance
• 1.2.11. Ends to which climate finance may be applied (outcomes sought) and the split between mitigation and adaptation finance
• 1.2.12. Emission pricing as a generator of climate finance
• 1.2.13. Ìnnovative' sources of climate finance
• 1.3. Climate finance institutions and mechanisms
• 1.3.1. Global Environment Facility
• 1.3.2. Multilateral development banks and the World Bank
• 1.3.3. Treaty mechanisms for mitigation finance: CDM and REDD

• 1.3.4. Adaptation Fund and other adaptation-specific funds
• 1.3.5. New Entry: The Green Climate Fund
• 1.4. Conclusion
• 2. Climate finance in legal scholarship
• 2.1. Introduction
• 2.2. General scholarship on climate law with implications for climate finance
• 2.3. Legal or broadly normative scholarship specifically on climate finance
• 2.4. Conclusion
• 3. Legal obligations of states relating to climate finance
• 3.1. Introduction
• 3.2. Specific treaty rules on climate finance
• 3.2.1. Substantive treaty rules
• 3.2.2. Procedural treaty rules
• 3.2.3. Summary of conventional sources
• 3.3. relevance, if any, of principles of international law
• 3.3.1. Sovereignty over natural resources and prevention of transboundary harm
• 3.3.2. Principle of precaution
• 3.3.3. Sustainable development
• 3.3.4. Equity and the principle of common but differentiated responsibility
• 3.3.5. polluter-pays principle and burden-sharing among states
• 3.4. Synthesis of treaty-based and other sources of law
• 4. State performance of obligations on climate finance
• 4.1. Introduction
• 4.2. Ǹeed' for climate finance
• 4.2.1. Assessments of need for mitigation finance
• 4.2.2. Assessments of need for adaptation finance
• 4.3. Supply of climate finance
• 4.3.1. Introduction and methodological issues
• 4.3.2. Early climate finance, 1992
• 2009
• 4.3.3. Fast-Start Finance period, 2010
• 2012
• 4.3.4. Mid-term finance, 2013
• 2020
• 4.3.5. Long-term finance under the Paris Agreement
• 4.4. Impact and effectiveness of climate finance
• 4.5. Conclusions on state ̀compliance' with climate finance obligations
• 5. philosophy of the control of nature
• 5.1. 2°C as geoengineering
• 5.2. Climate finance and the precarious control of nature
• 5.2.1. Chance and self-delusion
• 5.2.2. Inherent vice: fossil-fuel subsidies
• 5.2.3. Negative social and environmental impacts of climate finance
• 5.2.4. CDM finance and its compromises
• 5.3. Conclusion
• Bibliography
• A. General works
• B. Reports of FCCC-related bodies (including FCCC reporting guidelines)
• C. FCCC and Kyoto Protocol decisions.

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Author/Creator:

Zahar, Alexander , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Climate change finance and international law [by Zahar, A.]

Related Series:

Routledge advances in climate change research

Subjects:

Climatic changes — Law and legislation

Environmental law, International

Climatic changes — Law and legislation — Economic aspects

General Notes:

"Earthscan from Routledge."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

K3585.5 .Z345 2017eb

ISBNs:

9781134617494 (electronic bk.)
1134617496 (electronic bk.)
9780415708388 [Invalid]
0415708389 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

965196576

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EBC4756234 (source: MiAaPQ)
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