It's all about climate change, stupid! Exploring the relationship between environmental law and climate law

Hilson, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4114-6471 (2013) It's all about climate change, stupid! Exploring the relationship between environmental law and climate law. Journal of Environmental Law, 25 (3). pp. 359-370. ISSN 0952-8873 doi: 10.1093/jel/eqt019

Abstract/Summary

This comment analyses the relationship between climate law and environmental law. It examines this relationship from both a normative and a descriptive point of view. Normatively, it brings together various strands from some of the existing literature to form an overall model of the relationship—looking at ‘crowding out’, ‘crowding in’, ‘climate exceptionalism’ and adding in ‘climate unexceptionalism’. In descriptive terms, it considers, inter alia, ‘super wickedness’, instruments and governance, mitigation and adaptation.