The International Law Association's legal principles on climate change and climate liability under public International Law

Climate Law

Volumn 4, Issue 3-4, 2014, Pages 201-216

  Schwarte, Christoph ^a   Frank, Will ^b  

^a Legal Response Initiative   (United Kingdom)

^b RVR Mannheim   (Germany)

Author keywords

International Law Association; principle of prevention; State responsibility

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924494049     PISSN: 18786553     EISSN: 18786561     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/18786561-00404001     Document Type: Review

References (28)

1. Matthias Herdegen, Völkerrecht, 13th ed., Beck, Munich, 2014, at 165. However, as an official UN body, the ILC and its work carry more weight.
2. The full text of the draft articles and commentary and other documents of the committee are available at www.ila-hq.org/en/committees/index.cfm/cid/1029.
3. ILA, Legal Principles Related to Climate Change, Draft Art. 1, Commentary, para. 1 (Legal Principles).
4. International Bar Association (iba) Climate Change Justice and Human Rights Taskforce, Achieving Justice and Human Rights in an Era of Climate Disruption, iba 2014.
5. Peter Burdon (ed.), Exploring Wild Law: The Philosophy of Earth Jurisprudence, Wakefield Press, 2011.
6. Ian Brownlie, Principles of Public International Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 7th ed., 2008), at 275-285
7. Patricia Birnie, Alan Boyle, and Catherine Redgwell, International Law and the Environment (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 3rd ed., 2009), at 143-152.
8. Trail Smelter Arbitration, United States v. Canada, un Reports of International Arbitral Awards (unriaa), 16 April 1938 and 11 March 1941, vol. III, at 1905-1982, available at http://untreaty.un.org/cod/riaa/cases/vol-III/1905-1982.pdf
9. American Journal of International Law (1939), p. 182, and vol. 35 (1941), at 684.
10. John Knox, 'The Myth and reality of transboundary environmental impact assessment', 97 American Journal of International Law 291 (2002), at 295.
11. icj, Advisory Opinion on the Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons, icj Reports 1996, at 226, para. 29.
12. icj, Judgement, Case Concerning the Gabćíkovo-Nagymaros Project (Hungary v. Slovakia), icj Reports 1997, at 41, para. 53.
13. icj, Judgement, Case Concerning Pulp Mills on the River Uruguay (Argentina v. Uruguay), 2010 icj Reports 1, at 38, para. 101.
14. Christoph Schwarte, 'No harm' Rule and Climate Change, Briefing Paper (BP 42), Legal Response Initiative, 2012, available at http://legalresponseinitiative.org/legaladvice/no-harm-rule-and-climate-change.
15. Christina Voigt, 'State Responsibility for Climate Change Damages', 77 (1-2)
16. Nordic Journal of International Law (2008), at 10.
17. Report of the International Law Commission, 53rd session, Draft Articles on Prevention of Transboundary Harm from Hazardous Activities, with Commentary, 2001, A/56/10.
18. See also James Crawford, State Responsibility: The General Part (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013), at 227.
19. The Scientific Council to the German Government (Wissenschaftliche Beirat) on Global Environmental Changes also finds that states may be liable for a violation of preventative duties with regard to climate change and the associated risks: Expert opinion on 'Climate Protection and World Citizens' Movement' (Sondergutachten 'Klimaschutz und Weltbürgerbewegung'), 2014, at 56.
20. Matthew Happold, The Relationship Between the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and Other Rules of Public International Law, In Particular on States' Responsibility for the Adverse Effects of Climate Change, Briefing Paper, lri, 2013, available at http://legalresponseinitiative.org/briefing-papers/.
21. Ian Brownlie, Principles of International Law, p. 458.
22. ILC, Draft Articles on State Responsibility, Art. 47.
23. Will Frank, 'Überlegungen zur Klimahaftung nach Völkerrecht', NVwZ Extra, 11-7-2014www.nvwz.de.
24. icj, Case Concerning the Land and Maritime Boundary Between Cameroon and Nigeria (Cameroon v. Nigeria: Equatorial Guinea intervening), icj Reports 2002, at 303.
25. René Lefeber, Transboundary Environmental Interference and the Origin of State Liability (The Hague: Kluwer Law, 1996), at 129.
26. Rüdiger Wolfrum, 'International Courts and Tribunals, Evidence', Max Planck Encyclopaedia of Public International Law, 2013, p. 69.
27. Harald Hohmann, Precautionary Legal Duties and the Principles of Modern International Environmental Law (London: Graham and Trotman/Martinus Nijhoff, 1994), p. 10.
28. Decision 1/CP.16, The Cancun Agreements: Outcome of the Ad-hoc Working Group on Longterm Cooperative Action under the Convention, FCCC/CP/2010/7/Add.1, para.35.