Constructing Transnational Climate Regimes

BEYOND TERRITORIALITY: TRANSNATIONAL LEGAL AUTHORITY IN AN AGE OF GLOBALISATION, Chapter 19, Günther Handl, Joachim Zekoll, and Peer Zumbansen, eds., 2012

27 Pages Posted: 12 May 2012

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Eric Dannenmaier

Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law

Date Written: March 1, 2012

Abstract

This chapter (part of a collection of essays on extraterritoriality) explores climate change as an inherently extra-territorial problem that presents unique challenges to the international legal paradigm of sovereign territoriality. The author finds that transnational climate responses have driven an expansion of transnational legal authority, even a re-allocation of that authority, but not a re-location of the source of authority. States remain essential progenitors and sustainers of networks, negotiation processes, regime construction, and systems for monitoring, reporting, and verification – often constructing institutions that engage non-state actors at their functional core – but this extra-territorial framework does not appear to threaten the essence of state sovereignty.

Keywords: Climate Change, Extraterritoriality, Territoriality, Sovereignty, Non-State Actor, Transboundary Legal Process, Globalization, International Law, International Institutions, Kyoto Protocol, Transboundary Networks

JEL Classification: K32, K33, Q28

Suggested Citation

Dannenmaier, Eric, Constructing Transnational Climate Regimes (March 1, 2012). BEYOND TERRITORIALITY: TRANSNATIONAL LEGAL AUTHORITY IN AN AGE OF GLOBALISATION, Chapter 19, Günther Handl, Joachim Zekoll, and Peer Zumbansen, eds., 2012, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2056430

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