Climate change liability / Edited by Michael Faure, Marjan Peeters.
2011
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Title
Climate change liability / Edited by Michael Faure, Marjan Peeters.
Published
Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA, USA : Edward Elgar, [2011]
Copyright
©2011
Call Number
K3585.5 C372 2011
ISBN
1849802866
9781849802864
9781849802864
Description
xiii, 287 pages ; 24 cm .
System Control No.
(OCoLC)637520110
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
List of contributors
ix
List of abbreviations
xi
pt. I
INTRODUCTION
1.
Introduction / Marjan Peeters
3
1.
Problem definition: reasons for this book
3
2.
Methodology
5
3.
Framework
8
4.
Structure of the book
8
5.
Contributors
10
6.
Word of thanks
11
pt. II
CROSS-CUTTING THEMES
2.
Liability with and liability from the precautionary principle in climate change cases / Miriam Haritz
15
1.
Scientific uncertainty in climate change
15
2.
From scientific to legal uncertainty in climate change liability
17
3.
The scope of the precautionary principle as a tool to handle uncertainty
19
4.
The precautionary principle and climate change liability
21
5.
The added value of the precautionary principle's application to climate change liability
29
6.
Final considerations
32
3.
High noon: prevention of climate damage as the primary goal of liability? / Jaap Spier
47
pt. III
EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVE
4.
Liability of Member States and the EU in view of the international climate change framework: between solidarity and responsibility / Javier de Cendra de Larragan
55
1.
Introduction
55
2.
The principles of solidarity and loyal cooperation
56
3.
The Kyoto Protocol, the EU bubble and responsibility for lack of compliance
59
4.
Compliance and the burden-sharing agreement for the period 2012-2020
69
5.
Conclusions on the principle of loyal cooperation in relation to burden sharing
72
6.
Possible extensions to the notion of burden sharing
73
7.
Concluding remarks
81
5.
The regulatory approach of the EU in view of liability for climate change damage / Marjan Peeters
90
1.
Introduction
90
2.
Fossil fuel: a major source for energy production
95
3.
EU climate legislation targeting fossil-fuel fired energy installations
99
4.
Stipulating the responsibility of present polluters for future damage
116
5.
Conclusion
123
Appendix: List of EU climate legislation
133
6.
Potential liability of European States under the ECHR for failure to take appropriate measures with a view to adaptation to climate change / Armelle Gouritin
134
1.
Introduction
134
2.
Background: climate change, adaptation measures and human rights
135
3.
The Court's case law on positive obligations and the environment
138
4.
Adapting to climate change: a positive obligation?
146
5.
Conclusion
151
pt. IV
NATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON CIVIL LIABILITY
7.
Climate change litigation in the UK: its feasibility and prospects / Giedre Kaminskaite-Salters
165
1.
Introduction
165
2.
Climate change in the UK: current and future impacts
166
3.
Why litigate?
168
4.
Climate change litigation in the UK: status quo and future developments
170
5.
The building blocks of a climate-based tort case
173
6.
Causes of action
176
7.
Causation
182
8.
Conclusion
184
8.
Liability for climate change-related damage in domestic courts: claims for compensation in the USA / Elena Kosolapova
189
1.
Introduction
189
2.
Claims for compensation
190
3.
Analysis
194
4.
Conclusion: claims for compensation in other jurisdictions?
201
9.
Civil liability for global warming in the Netherlands / Chris van Dijk
206
1.
Introduction
206
2.
Litigants
209
3.
Interest in the proceedings and defending the rights of future generations
211
4.
The primacy of politicians
212
5.
Negligence
213
6.
Requirement of relativity
218
7.
Causal link
219
8.
Claims standing more chance?
221
9.
Conclusions
222
10.
Will civil society take climate changers to court? A perspective from Dutch law / Phon van den Biesen
227
1.
Access to civil and administrative courts in the Netherlands
227
2.
Access to European courts
229
3.
Administrative litigation
229
4.
Civil litigation
231
5.
Concluding observations
234
11.
Governmental liability: an incentive for appropriate adaptation? / Ben Schueler
237
1.
Introduction
237
2.
Examples of damage caused by adaptation policies
238
3.
Barriers to governmental liability based on fault
239
4.
Liability based on the right to equal treatment
246
5.
Is the Dutch system of governmental liability an incentive for appropriate adaptation to climate change?
247
6.
Conclusion
249
pt. V
CONCLUSION
12.
Concluding remarks / Marjan Peeters
255
1.
Introduction
255
2.
The importance of sound science
255
3.
A broad approach to liability law
257
4.
Goals of liability
258
5.
Drawbacks
259
6.
What to claim?
260
7.
Hurdles (and potential solutions)
262
8.
Regulation versus climate change liability
265
9.
Causation
267
10.
Who is liable?
268
11.
Cases
270
12.
Effectiveness?
271
13.
Agenda: the way forward
273
Index
275