Book contents
- Debating Climate Law
- Debating Climate Law
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Debate 1: Customary Law
- Debate 2: The ILC’s Role
- Debate 3: CBDR Principle
- Debate 4: Compliance
- Debate 5: Climate Litigation
- Debate 6: Human Rights
- Debate 7: Historical Responsibility
- Debate 8: Climate Migration
- Debate 9: Negative-Emission Technologies
- Debate 10: Solar Radiation Management
- Debate 11: Climate Assessment
- ~ A ~ The Emergence of Climate Assessment as a Customary Law Obligation
- ~ B ~ Environmental Impact Assessment for Greenhouse Gas Emissions Is Pie in the Sky
- Reflection 1: Adaptation
- Reflection 2: Loss and Damage
- Reflection 3: Disappearing States
- Reflection 4: Climate Finance
- Reflection 5: Non-State Actors
- Reflection 6: Regime Inconsistency
- Reflection 7: Aesthetics
- Conclusion
- Index
~ B ~ - Environmental Impact Assessment for Greenhouse Gas Emissions Is Pie in the Sky
from Debate 11: Climate Assessment
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 June 2021
- Debating Climate Law
- Debating Climate Law
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Debate 1: Customary Law
- Debate 2: The ILC’s Role
- Debate 3: CBDR Principle
- Debate 4: Compliance
- Debate 5: Climate Litigation
- Debate 6: Human Rights
- Debate 7: Historical Responsibility
- Debate 8: Climate Migration
- Debate 9: Negative-Emission Technologies
- Debate 10: Solar Radiation Management
- Debate 11: Climate Assessment
- ~ A ~ The Emergence of Climate Assessment as a Customary Law Obligation
- ~ B ~ Environmental Impact Assessment for Greenhouse Gas Emissions Is Pie in the Sky
- Reflection 1: Adaptation
- Reflection 2: Loss and Damage
- Reflection 3: Disappearing States
- Reflection 4: Climate Finance
- Reflection 5: Non-State Actors
- Reflection 6: Regime Inconsistency
- Reflection 7: Aesthetics
- Conclusion
- Index
Summary
An increasing number of jurisdictions are using environmental impact assessment as a tool for climate change mitigation (in brief, ‘Climate Assessment’, or CA). This chapter debates whether this is a legal obligation, or whether this even makes sense. Benoit Mayer argues that CA is emerging as a rule of customary international law, and that, moreover, it is a potentially useful mitigation tool. Alexander Zahar, by contrast, questions the meaningfulness of CA, arguing that it is impossible to determine what constitutes a significant, excessive, or disproportionate emission of greenhouse gases in the case of a proposed activity subject to CA, or at all.
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