Chapter 10: International Action on Climate Change Adaptation

Recommended materials

IPCC, Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability (2014)

Lisa Schipper, “Conceptual History of Adaptation in the UNFCCC Process” (2006) 15:1 Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law 82

Meinhard Doelle, Steven Evans & Tony George Puthucherril, “The Role of the UNFCCC Regime in Ensuring Effective Adaptation in Developing Countries: Lessons from Bangladesh” (2014) 4:3-4 Climate Law 327

Supplementary materials

Decision 1/CP.16, “The Cancún Agreements: Outcome of the work of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention” (10-11 December 2010)

Christopher B. Field et al. (eds.), Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability (Cambridge University Press, 2014)

Latest materials

Human Rights Committee, Ioane Teitiota case

https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/15/treatybodyexternal/Download.aspx?symbolno=CCPR%2fC%2f127%2fD%2f2728%2f2016&Lang=en  

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B Craft & S Fisher, “Measuring the adaptation goal in the global stocktake of the Paris Agreement”

(2018) 18(9) Climate Policy 1203-1209 "The Paris Agreement establishes a global goal on adaptation which will be assessed through the global stocktake, the first attempt by the international climate change regime to measure collective progress on adaptation. This policy analysis identifies four main challenges to designing a meaningful assessment. These are: designing a system that can aggregate …

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“The government response to the bushfire crisis has been evasive, tepid, tone-deaf and above all, too late” (Guardian)

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/06/the-government-response-to-the-bushfire-crisis-has-been-evasive-tepid-tone-deaf-and-above-all-too-late  

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“Climate refugees can’t be returned home, says landmark UN human rights ruling”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/20/climate-refugees-cant-be-returned-home-says-landmark-un-human-rights-ruling  

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“The battle on the frontline of climate change in Mali”

BBC News (22 January 2019) https://www.bbc.com/news/the-reporters-46921487

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