This groundbreaking book collects contributions from many of the world's leading climate and energy law scholars and provides the first major study of national Climate Change Acts. This cutting-edge type of legislation originated with the first Climate Change Act framework which was passed in the United Kingdom in 2008, and is intended to enable the law to grapple effectively with one of the great problems of our times, anthropogenic climate change.

Since 2008, national framework climate legislation has been slowly but steadily emerging in countries across the world. This trailblazing collection employs a comparative analytical legal methodology and offers the first comprehensive study of this new, innovative form of legislative regime.

In addition to containing broad internationalist chapters, deep-dive national case study chapters are included that focus on individual countries and provide analytical depth. A final chapter draws together the threads of the book's foregoing contributions to deduce generalisable conceptual insights based on current knowledge and experience. Uniquely, the book provides a conceptual model for Climate Change Acts that can usefully inform the development of national framework climate legislation in all countries.

Table Of Contents

Introduction

Thomas L Muinzer, University of Aberdeen, UK

1. What Do We Mean When We Talk about National ' Climate Change Acts ' and How Important are They

in the Context of International Climate Law?

Thomas L Muinzer, University of Aberdeen, UK

2. 'Paris Compatible' Climate Change Acts? National Framework Legislation in an International World

Matthias Duwe, Ecologic Institute, Berlin, Germany and Ralph Bodle, Ecologic Institute, Berlin, Germany

3. The UK's Climate Change Act

Richard Macrory, Brick Court Chambers, UK and Thomas L Muinzer, University of Aberdeen, UK

4. Mexico's Framework Legislation on Climate Change: Key Features, Achievements and Challenges Ahead

Alina Averchenkova, London School of Economics, UK

5. Denmark's Climate Change Act(s)

Sarah Louise Nash, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria

6. Ireland's Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 2015: Symbolic Legislation, Trojan Horse, Stepping Stone?

Andrew Jackson, University College Dublin, Ireland

7. The Swedish Climate Policy Framework Including the Climate Act

Åsa Romson, IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute, Sweden and Kristina Forsbacka, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden

8. The Dutch Response to Climate Change: Evaluating the Netherlands ' Climate Act and Associated Issues of Importance

Otto Spijkers, Wuhan University, China and Sofie Oosterhuis, Utrecht University, Netherlands

9. The New Zealand Legislation: Pursuing the 1.5 ° C Target Using a Net Zero Approach

Prue Taylor, University of Auckland, New Zealand

10. Conceptualising and Formulating National Climate Change Acts

Thomas L Muinzer, University of Aberdeen, UK