International Climate Change Law module (LW52140)

The aim of the module is to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the international legal framework on climate change.

Examples of content:

• Community interests and common concerns of humankind: the development of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol
• Protecting the climate through international law: the Paris Agreement
• The Vienna Convention on the Protection of the Ozone Layer and the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer
• Multiple reduction pathways, carbon technologies and the carbon market
• Human Rights Instruments to protect the right to a healthy environment
• The role of scientific evidence and climate modelling in climate litigation