Research Handbook on Climate Change and Biodiversity Law

Author: Phillipa C. McCormack and Richard Caddell Series: Research Handbooks in Climate Law series

Presenting cutting-edge observations, this Research Handbook tackles the intersecting crises of biodiversity loss and climate change from a legal perspective. Experts critically analyse international laws and institutions protecting biodiversity, highlighting key areas of development, conflict and opportunity.

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This Research Handbook tackles the intersecting crises of biodiversity loss and climate change from a legal perspective, delivering cutting edge insights into the evolution of these laws, and their shortfalls and opportunities. Experts critically analyse international and regional laws and institutions that were designed to protect biodiversity. They highlight the ways in which legal frameworks are being challenged by climate change and historical biodiversity loss, and the potential for these laws to transition or be transformed in anticipation of ongoing change.

The contributing authors examine what biodiversity laws need to achieve as the climate continues to change, and outline innovations within conservation, climate mitigation and adaptation research and practice. They focus on emerging legal gaps, and explore civil litigation rules and industry arrangements such as international fishing regulations and invasive species management. They examine core international and transboundary environmental law regimes, as well as multilateral environment agreements, and review how domestic legal instruments contribute to implementing international rules and targets. The chapters in this Research Handbook cover a broad range of sectors, disciplines and jurisdictions, including NGO, government and industry-led approaches, providing insights into the potential of legal strategies to address threats posed by climate-driven biodiversity loss.

The Research Handbook on Climate Change and Biodiversity Law is invaluable to students and academics in climate change and environmental law, conveying a clear understanding of how multiple legal regimes interact and instigate legal, political and governance reform. Policymakers, lawmakers and litigators seeking to enforce international and domestic laws will also find it a key resource.

Critic Reviews

‘The book the world needs – right now! IPBES and the IPCC jointly declared climate change to be the likely number 1 driver of biodiversity loss by the end of the 21st century. With expert contributions across legal regimes and biomes, this volume addresses a critical gap in knowledge.’ -- Michelle Lim, Singapore Management University, Singapore
‘Climate change and biodiversity loss are the twinned threats to sustainable futures for human and non-human communities. Yet nearly all laws addressing these problems treat them as unrelated. This volume shows the essential links between these problems, and proposes visionary, synergistic reforms for a livable, bountiful planetary future. Indispensable.’ -- David Takacs, UC Law San Francisco, USA

About the Author

Edited by Phillipa C. McCormack, Future Making Fellow, Environment Institute and Adelaide Law School, The University of Adelaide, Australia and Richard Caddell, Reader in Marine and Environmental Law, School of Law and Politics, Cardiff University, UK