Introduction

Summary

Debating Climate Law is the result of a collaboration of twenty-nine scholars from around the world with an interest in better understanding what climate law is, should be, or could become. They have come together to present eleven debates and seven ‘reflections’ about debates in climate law.But what is climate law? And why is it necessary to debate it? In introducing this volume, we begin with an account of climate law’s brief history to date. We then proceed to the reasons for the book’s layout in the form of a series of debates. We wrap up this introduction with an overview of the debates themselves.