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The Third Pillar of International Climate Change Policy: On ‘Loss and Damage’ after the Paris Agreement, edited by Morten Broberg and Beatriz Martinez Romera Routledge, 2021, 134 pp, £120 hb, £44.99 ebk ISBN 9780367676681 hb, 9781003132271 ebk

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 November 2021

Melissa Powers*
Affiliation:
Lewis & Clark Law School, Portland, OR (US)

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References

1 See D. Pierson, A. Su & M. Hennsessy-Fiske, ‘Summer of Disaster: Extreme Weather Wreaks Havoc Worldwide as Climate Change Bears Down’, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2021, available at: https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-07-21/extreme-weather-worldwide-climate-change-disasters.

2 New York, NY (United States (US)), 9 May 1992, in force 21 Mar. 1994, available at: https://unfccc.int/resource/docs/convkp/conveng.pdf.

3 International Negotiation Committee for a Framework Convention on Climate Change Working Group II, ‘Vanuatu: Draft Annex relating to Article 23 (Insurance) for Inclusion in the Revised Single Text on Elements related to Mechanism (A/AC.237/WG.II/Misc.13) submitted by the Co-Chairmen of Working Group II’, 17 Dec. 1991, UN Doc. A/AC.237/WG.II/CRP.8, available at: https://unfccc.int/sites/default/files/resource/docs/a/wg2crp08.pdf.

4 Decision 2/CP.19, ‘Warsaw International Mechanism [WIM] for Loss and Damage Associated with Climate Change Impacts’, 31 Jan. 2014, UN Doc. FCCC/CP/2014/L.2, Recital 5 (‘loss and damage … includes, and in some cases involves more than that which can be reduced by adaptation’), available at: http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/2013/cop19/eng/10a01.pdf.

5 Paris (France), 12 Dec. 2015, in force 4 Nov. 2016, available at: http://unfccc.int/paris_agreement/items/9485.php.

6 Ibid., Art. 8.1.

7 Decision 1/CP.21, ‘Adoption of the Paris Agreement’, 13 Dec. 2015, UN Doc. FCCC/CP/2015/10/Add.1, para. 52.

8 Most of the chapters were published initially in a symposium issue of the journal Climate Policy, on the theme of ‘Loss and Damage after the Paris Agreement’, with Broberg and Romera as guest editors; see (2020) 20(6) Climate Policy, pp. 661–771. Chapter 7 was previously published as Broberg, M., ‘Interpreting the UNFCCC's Provisions on “Mitigation” and “Adaptation” in Light of the Paris Agreement's Provision on “Loss and Damage”’ (2020) 20(5) Climate Policy, pp. 527–33CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

9 Field, C.B. et al. (eds), Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability. Part A: Global and Sectoral Aspects. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (Cambridge University Press, 2015)Google Scholar; Barros, V.R. et al. (eds), Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability. Part B: Regional Aspects. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (Cambridge University Press, 2015)Google Scholar.

10 Cf. Lyster, R., ‘A Fossil Fuel-Funded Climate Disaster Response Fund under the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage Associated with Climate Change Impacts’ (2015) 4(1) Transnational Environmental Law, pp. 125–51CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

11 Vienna (Austria), 23 May 1969, in force 27 Jan. 1980, available at: https://legal.un.org/ilc/texts/instruments/english/conventions/1_1_1969.pdf.