Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0

Author-Name:  Aerni, Philipp
Author-Name-First: Philipp
Author-Name-Last: Aerni

Author-Name:  Cottier, Thomas
Author-Name-First: Thomas
Author-Name-Last: Cottier

Author-Name:  de Melo, Jaime
Author-Name-First: Jaime
Author-Name-Last: de Melo

Author-Name:  Karapinar, Baris
Author-Name-First: Baris
Author-Name-Last: Karapinar

Author-Name:  Matteotti-Berkutova, Sofya
Author-Name-First: Sofya
Author-Name-Last: Matteotti-Berkutova

Author-Name:  MILE 02, Anirudh Shingal
Author-Name-First: Anirudh Shingal
Author-Name-Last: MILE 02

Title: The Principle of Common Concern and Climate Change
Abstract: AbstractEffective policies combating global warming and incentivising reduction of greenhouse gases face fundamental collective action problems. States defending short term interests avoid international commitments and seek to benefit from measures combating global warming taken elsewhere. The paper explores the potential of Common Concern as an emerging principle of international law, in particular international environmental law, in addressing collective action problems and the global commons. It expounds the contours of the principle, its relationship to common heritage of mankind, to shared and differentiated responsibility and to public goods. It explores its potential to provide the foundations not only for international cooperation, but also to justify, and delimitate at the same time, unilateral action at home and deploying extraterritorial effects in addressing the challenges of global warming and climate change mitigation. As unilateral measures mainly translate into measures of trade policy, the principle of Common Concern is inherently linked and limited by existing legal disciplines in particular of the law of the World Trade Organization.
Creation-Date:  2014-06-06
File-URL: http://www.wti.org/media/filer_public/0d/a9/0da93bab-02b6-49f3-a789-d8f4a0ab3982/cottier_et_al_common_concern_and_climate_change_archiv_final_0514.pdf
File-Format: Application/pdf
File-Function: First version
Handle: RePEc:wti:papers:730