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4. Climate Conflicts and International Environmental Law

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Abstract

This chapter examines the applicability of international environmental law to climate conflicts. In this part of the book, the analysis will turn to the direct environmental damage caused by climate change.
Focus is put on the analysis of the climate regime, i.e. the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the associated Kyoto Protocol. However, other rules, standards, and principles like the Precautionary Principle or the Obligation to Prevent Transboundary Harm are also scrutinized. The contrarian views in how far primary obligations of international law are deducible from international environmental law are analyzed as well.
The analysis here is dominated by interpreting the international regulations with respect to their wording and intent. The Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, which provides rules regarding the interpretation of treaties, is used during the analysis. In a separate section, this chapter will turn to the concept of ‘unjust enrichment’ deriving from civil law. It is questioned if this concept may be applicable to climate change damages. To underline the relevance of this chapter, the analysis references to examples of the current situation in Bangladesh.

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1
Louka (2006), pp. 468, 469.
 
2
The Geneva Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution (CLRTAP), for example, seeks to solve arising problems due to noncompliance by a process, governed by the Implementation Committee. The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) imposes obligations to identify and monitor the effects of activities on biodiversity pursuant to article 7 CBD.
 
3
Crawford (2002), p. 126.
 
4
Ibid.
 
5
Ibid., p. 124.
 
6
Sands et al. (2012), p. 13.
 
7
Boyle (2007), p. 126.
 
8
Statute of the International Court of Justice, San Francisco 1945-06-26, in force 1945-10-24 [3 Bevans 1179; 59 Stat. 1031; T.S. 993; 39 AJIL Supp. 215 (1945)].
 
9
Henderson (2010), p. 66.
 
10
Vitzthum (2010), pp. 51, 52; Ipsen (2004), p. 116.
 
11
Anton and Mathew (2005), p. 200.
 
12
Henderson (2010), p. 58; Ipsen (2004), p. 211.
 
13
Anton and Mathew (2005), p. 202.
 
14
Henderson (2010), pp. 58, 59.
 
15
Anton and Mathew (2005), p. 202.
 
16
Shaw (2008), p. 84.
 
17
Anton and Mathew (2005), pp. 209, 210.
 
18
Shaw (2008), p. 123.
 
19
Henderson (2010), p. 72.
 
20
Fleischhauer (1992), p. 971.
 
21
Ibid.
 
22
Ibid.
 
23
Ibid., p. 972.
 
24
Henderson (2010), p. 62.
 
25
Ibid.
 
26
Fleischhauer (1992), p. 972.
 
27
Soft law refers to nonbinding instruments. Soft law is thus not law. For further reading, see: Shaw (2008), pp. 17–19.
 
28
Henderson (2010), p. 66.
 
29
Ibid., p. 4.
 
30
Ibid.
 
31
Ibid., p. 5.
 
32
Ibid., p. 5.
 
33
Vitzthum (2010), p. 69.
 
34
Ibid.
 
35
The other main Rio documents are the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Convention to Combat Desertification, the Forest Principles, and the Agenda 21. Sand, UNCED and the Development of International Environmental Law, 3 YIEL (1992), p. 3.
 
38
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has 30 members. Apart from the countries of Western Europe and North America, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and Turkey, other countries have joined recently: Mexico, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Korea, and the Slovak Republic. For further information, see: www.​oecd.​org.
 
39
These are Belarus, Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, the Russian Federation, Slovenia, and Ukraine.
 
40
Verheyen (2005), p. 56.
 
41
For further reading, see: Moss (1995), pp. 4 f. See also: European Climate Forum/PIK 2004, p. 4.
 
42
The legal status of the decisions of the COP is highly debated. The COP is not an international organization, and thus its decisions are not legally binding beyond the regime of the treaty. However, COP decisions represent the will of all parties and could therefore also be seen as binding international declarations by sovereign states. The UNFCCC excludes that amendments become binding on Parties without their consent. See: Sands (2003), pp. 261 ff.
 
43
Treviranus (1992), p. 1097.
 
44
Ibid.
 
45
Ibid., p. 1098.
 
46
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (2013), http://​unfccc.​int/​essential_​background/​items/​6031.​php.
 
47
In its advisory opinion, the ICJ held that future generations do not explicitly hold rights themselves; however, the court did recognize that future generations are a factor in the interpretation of international environmental law. See: Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons (Advisory Opinion), ICJ Reports 1996, p. 226 at pp. 243–244 para. 35.
 
48
On this notion, see: Verheyen (2005), pp. 56–58.
 
50
Schröder (2002), p. 257.
 
51
Ibid.
 
52
For further reading on the INC negotiations, see: United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (2013), http://​unfccc.​int/​essential_​background/​items/​6031.​php.
 
53
Verheyen (2005), p. 71.
 
54
However, the text of the Convention does at no point determine the main responsibility for climate change to be located at the industrialized countries. India made such a proposal: ‘Noting the fact that the largest part of the current emissions of pollutants into the environment originates in developed countries, and recognizing therefore that these countries have the main responsibility for combating such pollution.’ See: India’s submission in: Set of informal papers related to the preparation of a framework convention on climate change, UN Doc. A/AC.237/Misc.1/Add.3, 3.
 
55
Principle 16 of the Rio Declaration States: ‘National authorities should endeavor to promote the internationalization of environmental costs and the use of economic instruments, taking into account that the polluter should, in principle, bear the cost of pollution, with due regard to the public interests and without distorting international trade and interest.’
 
56
Beyerlin, Marauhn (2011), p. 61.
 
57
On this notion see: Verheyen (2005), p. 73.
 
58
Ibid.
 
59
Ibid., p. 71.
 
60
Doabia (2005), p. 474.
 
61
Ibid.
 
62
Sands et al. (2012), p. 218.
 
63
E.g., § 5 I No. 2 German Federal Emission Control Act.
 
64
Article VII, XV (ii), XVI (I) of the 1987 Ministerial Declaration of the Second North Sea Conference; Principle 15 of the Rio Declaration; Para. 17.21 of Agenda 21; United Nations General Assembly Resolution 44/225 of 22 December 1989 and 46/215 of 20 December 1991. Ministerial Declaration on the Protection of the Black Sea (1993); article 7.5 FAO Code of Conduct of Responsible Fisheries (1995), Sintra Statement of the Ministerial Meeting of the OSPAR Commission on 22–23 July 1998.
 
65
Article III (1)(b) 1952 North Pacific Fisheries Convention; article V Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources 1980; International Whaling Commission 1982; Preamble of the Vienna Convention 1985; article 4 (3), 4 Antarctic Mineral Resources Convention 1988; article 4 Bamako Convention 1991; article 2 (5)(a) ECE Transboundary Watercourse Convention 1992; article 2 (2)(a) OSPAR Convention 1992; article 3 (2) Baltic Sea Convention 1992; article 4.1 (f) Climate Change Convention 1992; article 174 (2) of the Treaty Establishing the European Community (consolidated version) 1992; Convention on the Conservation and Management of the Pollock Resources in the central Bering Sea 1994; article 6 UN Fish Stocks Agreement 1995; article 3 (1) Protocol to the 1972 London Convention 1996; Preamble EC Council Directive 96/61 of 24 September 1996 concerning integrated pollution prevention and control.
 
66
Sands (2003), p. 213.
 
67
Haritz (2011), p. 20.
 
68
Marr (2000), p. 261.
 
69
The MOX Plant Case (Ireland v. United Kingdom), Provisional Measures, Order of 3 December 2001, ITLOS No. 10, Separate Opinion of Judge Wolfrum, p. 4.
 
70
Haritz (2011), p. 25.
 
71
Ibid., p. 23.
 
72
The analysis will cover the problem of states being possibly overburdened to provide sufficient adaptation measures to combat climate change aftermath in Chap. 6.
 
73
Haritz (2011), p. 20.
 
74
See the WCED Report ‘Our Common Future’ 1987.
 
75
Sands (2003), pp. 100ff; Adams (2003), p. 77.
 
76
Shelton (2007), p. 642.
 
77
See: UN Declaration on the right to development, GA Resolution 41/128 UN Doc. A/41/53.
 
78
Bodansky (1993), pp. 451 ff.
 
79
On this notion, see: Verheyen (2005), p. 78.
 
80
See: Voigt (2008), pp. 1–22; Verheyen (2005), pp. 80, 81.
 
81
Voigt (2008), pp. 6, 7; Verheyen (2005), pp. 80–84.
 
82
In approval of this view, see: Tomuschat (2011), pp. 18, 19.
 
83
During the negotiations, the EU and a number of developing countries, especially AOSIS countries, strongly supported the inclusion of binding ‘targets and timetables.’ See: Summary in Compilation of possible elements for a Framework Convention on Climate Change. Note by the secretariat. UN Doc. A/AC.237/Misc.2, pp. 27 ff.
 
84
The Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, 16 September 1987.
 
85
Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution, 13 November 1979.
 
86
Verheyen (2005), pp. 44–54.
 
87
Sands (2003), p. 359.
 
88
Kiss and Shelton (2004), p. 585.
 
89
Ibid., p. 588.
 
90
Verheyen (2005), p. 81.
 
91
Sands (2003), p. 371.
 
92
Annex A of the Kyoto Protocol lists the following gases: carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, hydro fluorocarbons, per fluorocarbons, sulfur hexafluoride.
 
93
E.g., reduction of emission allowances in the next commitment period. Targets are listed in article 3 Kyoto Protocol.
 
94
UNFCCC (2008), p. 38.
 
95
Tomuschat (2011), pp. 19, 20.
 
96
The quantified emission limitation or reduction commitment for each country party is set out in Annex B to the Kyoto Protocol.
 
97
UNFCCC (2008), p. 12.
 
98
Ibid., p. 19.
 
102
Tomuschat (2011), p. 20.
 
103
See generally: Verheyen (2005); Voigt (2008), pp. 5–7; Tol and Verheyen (2004), pp. 1114–1116.
 
104
Tomuschat (2011), p. 20.
 
105
Vitzthum (2010), p. 27.
 
107
http://​unfccc.​int/​bodies/​items/​6241.​php. For further reading on the COP-meetings see: Sands et al. (2012), pp. 294 ff.
 
110
Beyerlin and Marauhn (2011), p. 29.
 
111
Conference of the Parties (2009), p. 4.
 
114
‘In a communication dated 8 December 2010 that was received by the secretariat on 9 December 2010, the Russian Federation has indicated that it does not intend to assume a quantitative emission limitation or reduction commitment for the second commitment period.’ United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (2011), http://​unfccc.​int/​files/​meetings/​durban_​nov_​2011/​decisions/​application/​pdf/​awgkp_​outcome.​pdf.
 
115
Canada withdrew from the Kyoto Protocol on 15 December 2012, see: http://​unfccc.​int/​kyoto_​protocol/​status_​of_​ratification/​items/​2613.​php.
 
116
‘In a communication dated 10 December 2010, Japan indicated that it does not have any intention to be under obligation of the second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol after 2012.’ http://​unfccc.​int/​files/​meetings/​durban_​nov_​2011/​decisions/​application/​pdf/​awgkp_​outcome.​pdf.
 
117
Agence France-Presse, Kyoto deal loses four big nations, Sydney Morning Herald (29 May 2011), http://​www.​smh.​com.​au/​environment/​climate-change/​kyoto-deal-loses-four-big-nations-20110528–1f9dk.​html.
 
118
For a chronology on ‘loss and damage’ with regard to the climate change talks, see: United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (2015), https://​unfccc.​int/​adaptation/​workstreams/​loss_​and_​damage/​items/​7545.​php.
 
119
Conference of the Parties Decision 3/CP.18 (2013), http://​unfccc.​int/​resource/​docs/​2012/​cop18/​eng/​08a01.​pdf#page=​21, approaches to address loss and damage associated with climate change impacts in developing countries that are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change to enhance adaptive capacity.
 
123
For background on the debate during the conference, see: http://​www.​bbc.​com/​news/​science-environment-20653018.
 
124
UNECE (2010), p. 3.
 
126
UNECE (2010), p. 3.
 
127
Ibid., p.15.
 
128
Shaw (2008), p. 873.
 
130
The 1984 Geneva Protocol on Long-term Financing of the Cooperative Programme for Monitoring and Evaluation of the Long-range Transmission of Air Pollutants in Europe.
 
131
The 1985 Helsinki Protocol on the Reduction of Sulphur Emissions or their Transboundary Fluxes by at least 30 %.
 
132
United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (1985), http://​www.​unece.​org/​env/​lrtap/​sulf_​h1.​html.
 
133
The 1988 Sofia Protocol concerning the Control of Emissions of Nitrogen Oxides or their Transboundary Fluxes.
 
134
The 1991 Geneva Protocol concerning the Control of Emissions of Volatile Organic Compounds or their Transboundary Fluxes.
 
135
The 1994 Oslo Protocol on Further Reduction of Sulphur Emissions.
 
136
United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (1994), http://​www.​unece.​org/​env/​lrtap/​fsulf_​h1.​html.
 
137
The 1998 Aarhus Protocol on Heavy Metals.
 
138
The 1998 Aarhus Protocol on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs).
 
140
The 1999 Gothenburg Protocol to Abate Acidification, Eutrophication and Ground-level Ozone.
 
142
Reis et al. (2012), p. 1153.
 
144
Sanctions like the suspension of certain rights, privileges, or financial assistance in cases of noncompliance with international environmental law can be found in, e.g., CITES or the Montreal Protocol (trade restrictions). For compliance of the member states, see the 15th Report of the Implementation Committee, see: United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (2008), http://​www.​unece.​org/​env/​eia/​implementation/​implementation_​committee_​meetings15.​html.
 
146
Reis et al. (2012), p. 1153.
 
147
Canada v. United States: A zinc and lead smelter in the town of Trail, British Columbia, not far from the U.S. border, emitted sulfurous smoke that drifted southward down the Columbia River valley and caused damage to crops and trees on the U.S. side of the border. From the beginning of its operations in 1896, American farmers suffered damage due to emissions of sulfur dioxide by the plant. In 1903, the record year, these emissions exceeded 10,000 tons a month. In 1930, 300 to 350 tons of sulfur, in addition to other chemical residues, poured into the air. Initially, the smelter company paid indemnities to those suffering from the pollution, either following American court procedures or as a result of bilateral accords. In 1925, the case was reopened after the smelter added two 409-foot stacks to the plant to increase production, resulting in greater pollution. An association of injured persons was formed in order to obtain general damages in the place of individual recoveries. Compensation was awarded for some of the damage claimed by the United States, and some changes were made in order to keep harmful emissions caused by the operation of the plant below an acceptable threshold. See: Gilpin (2000), p. 319; Kiss and Shelton (2004), pp. 182–188. For a summary of the case, see also: Gaines (1989), pp. 337–339.
 
148
Handl (2007), p. 533.
 
149
Ibid., p. 532.
 
150
Ibid., p. 533.
 
151
Sands et al. (2012), pp. 195, 196.
 
152
Ibid., p. 195.
 
153
Kiss and Shelton (2004), p. 182.
 
154
Ibid., p. 79.
 
155
Fitzmaurice (2007), p. 1013.
 
156
Ibid.
 
157
Trail Smelter (U.S. v. Can.), 3 R. Int.l Arb. Awards 1907, 1965; Eagleton (1928).
 
158
Kiss and Shelton (2004), p. 184.
 
159
Ibid.
 
160
Ibid., pp. 184–185.
 
161
Ibid., p. 185.
 
162
Shaw (2008), p. 857.
 
163
Cassese (2005), p. 484.
 
164
For the discussion on ‘clear and convincing evidence’ with regard to the Trail Smelter case, see: Frank (2014), pp. 3, 4.
 
165
Frank (2014), p. 4.
 
166
International Law Commission (2001b).
 
167
Sands and Galizzi (2004), p. 24.
 
168
Sands (2003), p. 902.
 
169
For further reading on this matter see: Handl (2007), p. 540.
 
170
Fitzmaurice (2007), p. 1022.
 
171
International Law Commission (2001a), p. 150.
 
172
Higgins (2003), p. 165.
 
173
Fitzmaurice (2007), p. 1022. See also: Tomuschat (2011), pp. 23–25.
 
174
See, e.g., Boyle (1990), pp. 1–26.
 
175
Ibid.
 
176
Sands (2003), p. 902.
 
177
Gaines (1990–1991), pp. 807–808.
 
178
Voigt (2008), p. 9.
 
179
Pulp Mills on the River Uruguay (Argentina v. Uruguay), Provisional Measures, Order of 13 July 2006, ICJ Reports 2006, p. 113 at para. 101.
 
180
Voigt (2008), p. 10.
 
181
International Law Commission (2001b), p. 155.
 
182
Pulp Mills on the River Uruguay (Argentina v. Uruguay), Provisional Measures, Order of 13 July 2006, ICJ Reports 2006, p. 113 at para. 101.
 
183
International Law Commission (2001b), p. 154.
 
184
Sands et al. (2012), p. 714.
 
185
International Law Commission (2001b), p. 154.
 
186
Ibid., p. 155.
 
187
Ibid., p. 156.
 
188
Ibid., p. 154. See also: Voigt (2008), pp. 10–12.
 
189
International Law Commission (2001b), p. 153.
 
190
Ibid., p. 155.
 
191
Ibid., p. 153.
 
192
This is line with the argumentation of the ICJ in the Corfu Channel case. The ICJ did not require from Albania to have specific knowledge on the ships going through the passage. Rather, the knowledge that ships may enter the territory concerned was satisfying to attribute the damage to Albania. See: Corfu Channel Case (U.K. v. Albania), Judgment, ICJ Reports 1949, p. 4.
 
193
IPCC AR4, WGII 2007.
 
194
UNFCCC, Preamble.
 
195
The term is used here in a sense different from the connotation it has in the work of Rawls 1971, p. 136.
 
196
Tomuschat (2011), p. 26.
 
197
Voigt (2008), p. 12.
 
198
Ibid., p. 14.
 
199
International Law Commission (2001a), p. 159.
 
200
Kiss and Shelton (2004), p. 191.
 
201
See: Birnie et al. (2009), p. 217.
 
202
Sands et al. (2012), pp. 201, 202.
 
203
Gaines (1989), p. 316.
 
204
General Commentary, ILC Report, UN Doc. A/61/10, p. 113.
 
205
Tomuschat (2011), p. 24.
 
206
General Commentary, ILC Report, UN Doc. A/61/10, p. 113.
 
207
Tomuschat (2011), p. 25.
 
208
UN Doc. A/61/10; ILC Draft Principles on the Allocation of Loss in the Case of Transboundary Harm Arising out of Transboundary Activities Yearbook of the International Law Commission, 2006, Vol. II, Part Two, commentary to principle 2 (2).
 
209
Ibid.
 
210
Kiss and Shelton (2004), pp. 212, 213.
 
211
Gilpin (2000), p. 246.
 
212
Gaines (1991), p. 492.
 
213
Tomuschat (2011), p. 16.
 
214
On this notion, see: Gaines (1991), pp. 492, 493.
 
215
Tomuschat (2011), p. 17.
 
216
Ibid., pp. 17, 18.
 
217
Kiss and Shelton (2004), p. 42.
 
218
Trail Smelter Arbitration (United States v. Canada), 1938, 1941, 3 RIAA 1907 (1941), p. 4.
 
219
Corfu Channel Case (U.K. v. Albania), Judgment, ICJ Reports 1949, 4.
 
220
Lac Lanoux arbitration (France v. Spain), 24 Int’l L. Rep. 101 1957.
 
221
Shaw (2008), pp. 785, 786.
 
222
See: United States Diplomatic and Consular Staff in Teheran, Judgment, ICJ Reports 1980, p. 3 at p. 29; Military and Paramilitary Activities in and against Nicaragua (Nicaragua v. United States of America), Merits, Judgment, ICJ Reports 1986, p. 14 at p. 64.
 
223
In some cases, the concept has been consulted determining questions of equity (e.g., Lena Goldfields Arbitration, The Times, Sept. 3, 1930, p. 7); in other cases, the concept was cited as a limitation to damages rewarded (e.g., George W. Cook (USA) v. United Mexican States, RIAA, Vol. 4, p. 217); see: Schreuer (2000), p. 1243.
 
224
Schreuer (2000), pp. 1243, 1244.
 
225
For a thorough introduction on the different ideas of what ‘unjust enrichment’ stands for in the municipal systems, see: Schreuer (1974), pp. 281–301.
 
226
Schreuer (2000), p. 1244.
 
227
Crawford (2002), p. 125.
 
228
Schreuer (2000), p. 1243.
 
229
Ibid., p. 1244.
 
230
Ibid.
 
231
Schreuer (1974), p. 285.
 
232
Schreuer (2000), p. 1243.
 
233
For a more detailed insight on this notion, see: Weinbaum (2011), pp. 429–454.
 
234
Schreuer (2000), p. 1243.
 
235
Definition of ‘Enrichment’ according to Merriam Webster, see: http://​www.​merriam-webster.​com/​dictionary/​enrichment.
 
236
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Climate Change 2007: Synthesis Report, AR4 2008.
 
237
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, AR4/WG2 2008, p. 17.
 
238
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, AR4/WG2 2008, p. 14.
 
239
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, AR4/WG2 2008, p. 56.
 
241
Schreuer (2000), p. 1245.
 
242
Recommendation of the Council on Principles concerning Transfrontier Pollution, Paris 14 November 1974, [OECD doc. C(74)224].
 
243
Kiss and Shelton (2004), p. 195.
 
244
Ibid.
 
245
E.g., Nordic Mutual Emergency Assistance Agreement in Connection with Radiation Accidents, Vienna 17 October 1963, in force 19 June 1964 [525 UNTS 75]; International Convention Relating to Intervention on the High Seas in Cases of Oil Pollution Casualties, Brussels 29 Nov 1969, in force 6 May 1975 [970 UNTS 211]; Agreement for Cooperation in Dealing with Pollution of the North Sea by Oil and other Harmful Substances, Bonn 13 September 1983, in force 1 September 1989.
 
246
Convention on Assistance in the Case of a Nuclear Accident or Radiological Emergency, Vienna 26 Sep 1986, in force 26 Feb 1987 [1457 UNTS 133; [1987] ATS 15; 25 ILM 1377 (1986)].
 
247
Kiss and Shelton (2004), pp. 196, 197.
 
248
For further reading on UNCLOS, see: Sands and Galizzi (2004), pp. 294 ff.
 
249
Principle 22 and Principle 7 adopted by United Nations Conference on the Human Environment have been major influences to article 253, UNCLOS. See: Nordquist et al. (1991b), p. 401. Principle 22 of the Stockholm Declaration states: ‘States shall co-operate to develop further the international law regarding liability and compensation for the victims of pollution and other environmental damage caused by activities within the jurisdiction or control of such States to areas beyond their jurisdiction.’ Principle 7 of the Stockholm Declaration states: ‘States should discharge, in accordance with the principles of international law, their obligations towards other States where damage arises from pollution caused by their own activities or by organizations or individuals under their jurisdiction and should co-operate in developing procedures for dealing with such damage and the settlement of disputes.’
 
250
Sands and Galizzi (2004), p. 294.
 
251
Sands and Galizzi (2004), pp. 295, 296.
 
252
The University of New South Wales Climate Change Research Centre (2009), pp. 7, 23.
 
253
Nordquist et al. (1991a), p. 517.
 
254
Sands and Galizzi (2004), p. 294.
 
255
Churchhill and Lowe (1999), pp. 160, 161.
 
256
Tol and Verheyen (2004), p. 1116.
 
257
Vitzthum (2006), p. 228.
 
258
Oppenheim (1992), p. 717. The EEZ is roughly put, determined by drawing a line around land territories (baselines). See: Vitzthum (2006), pp. 230, 231.
 
259
Nordquist et al. (1991b), pp. 401, 402.
 
260
Ibid. p. 402.
 
261
Sands (2003), pp. 454, 455.
 
262
See: UNCLOS, article 287, and generally UNCLOS, part XV. Theoretically, claims deriving from UNCLOS could also be brought in the International Court of Justice, which […] settle[s], in accordance with international law, legal disputes submitted to it by states and…give[s] advisory opinions on legal questions referred to it by authorized United Nations organs and specialized agencies.
 
263
Tol and Verheyen (2004), p. 1114.
 
264
Kiss and Shelton (2004), p. 142.
 
267
Especially during the negotiations regarding the climate regime, developing countries were pressing for an incorporation of the Polluter-Pays-Principle (see Sect. 4.6.4).
 
268
On the lack of ratification, see: Louka (2006), p. 467.
 
269
Gilpin (2000), p. 15.
 
270
Kiss and Shelton (2004), p. 141.
 
271
See: Article 31 ILC-DASR.
 
272
Gaines (1990–1991), p. 782.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Climate Conflicts and International Environmental Law
verfasst von
Silke Marie Christiansen
Copyright-Jahr
2016
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27945-9_4