Climate Change Remedies: Injunctive Relief and Criminal Law Responses (2) (Legal Perspectives on Global Challenges)

Climate change poses very serious risks to mankind. Adaptation and damages are emphasized more and more. Although adaptation is important, priority should be given to prevention (mitigation). The contributions in this second volume of the series "Legal Perspectives of Global Challenges" emanate from an international research project that deals with a legal kaleidoscope of legal issues and focuses primarily on preventive remedies. The book tackles injunctive relief and discusses the myriad of legal questions courts have to answer if they are willing to grant injunctive relief. It addresses both procedural, private international, and substantive law. One contribution discusses the role criminal law could play to come to grips with the threats of climate change. So far, the greater part of the debate is about the US, Europe and, increasingly, Asia. Another contribution fills this gap by painting an African perspective. Contents include: Injunctive Relief: Opportunities and Challenges - Thoughts about a Potentially Promising Legal Vehicle to Stem the Tide * Injunctive Relief against Climate Change * Climate Change and the (Possible) Role of International Criminal Law * Climate Change Law and Policy in the African Union and Selected African Countries. (Series: Legal Perspectives for Global Challenges - Vol. 2) [Subject: International Law, Environmental Law, Criminal Law]

Jaap Spier is an Advocate-General in the Supreme Court of the Netherlands and a honorary professor at the University of Maastricht (the Netherlands). Ulrich Magnus is a Judge at the Hamburg Appeal Court and Germany's Correspondent at UNCITRAL. In addition, he is a legal expert for international organisations, German and foreign ministries and courts