Jolene Lin, Joanne Scott

Carbon & Climate Law Review, Volume 5 (2011), Issue 1, Page 1 - 2

Climate change governance is an emerging, multi-faceted issue area. What is fascinating for scholars working in this area is the emergence of new sites of governance at different levels and in different forums. We find climate change mitigation and adaptation initiatives at the city, provincial, regional and international levels. Informal policy and research networks transverse the globe. Apart from the realm of “hard law”, “soft law” abounds in climate governance.

Joanne Scott

Carbon & Climate Law Review, Volume 5 (2011), Issue 1, Page 25 - 33

This paper examines the multi-level governance of climate change with a particular focus on the European Union (EU). It examines the relationship between the EU and its Member States (the federalism dimension), particularly in relation to emissions trading, and the relationship between the EU and the rest of the world (the global dimension). The paper argues that we are witnessing a shift in the EU’s climate leadership style; a shift that is characterized by an increasing willingness of the EU to use its economic power in a bid to promote effective climate governance elsewhere. We see this in relation to different sectors including aviation, biofuels, energy-intensive products and as a result of increasing EU regulation of carbon offsets in its emissions trading scheme.

Joanne Scott, Jolene Lin

Carbon & Climate Law Review, Volume 5 (2011), Issue 2, Page 133 - 135

This is the second special issue of the Carbon and Climate Law Review containing papers presented at a conference on “Climate Change Governance after Copenhagen”, held in Hong Kong in November 2010. The conference was jointly organized by the Law Faculties of the University of Hong Kong and University College London. In the first of our special issues, the papers examined the emergence of new sites of climate change governance at different levels of governance and in different forums. In this second special issue, the papers explore different elements of the emerging climate change “regime complex”, 1 focussing upon developments taking place in global governance and private governance.