"This edited volume offers an interdisciplinary and comparative analysis of the implementation of climate change policies worldwide, exploring ways of improving key regulatory mechanisms. This book is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available as Open Access. Check our website - Cambridge Core - for details"--

About the editors and contributors; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I. Comparing Climate Policies: 1. The earth's climate and ongoing global change Roberto Buizza; 2. Building blocks of the European union's strategy for climate neutrality Ilaria Conti, Nicolò Rossetto, Pierre Schlosser and Stefano Verde; 3. Environmental constitutionalism: the implementation perspective and the different souls of the European green deal Walter Baber; 4. Avoiding Russia's sphere of influence: the European union, energy supply and climate sustainability Ottavio Quirico; 5. The US and climate policies: patterns and progress in compounded muddling Robert Bartlett; 6. Great expectations: challenges to the implementation of climate policies in Latin America and the Caribbean Pablo Cristóbal Jiménez Lobeira; 7. What does 'green' mean for a green belt and road? Wenting Cheng; 8. Embracing complexity: water and climate in the Middle East and North Africa Alexandria Feruglio and Aaron Tang; 9. Between Europe and the people's republic of China: understanding Africa's energy transition Joshua Woodyatt and Broneal Sarkosh-Nejad; Part II. Designing Effective Governance Mechanisms: 10. European green deal, climate policies and the energy dilemma: investment protection v sustainable investment? Ottavio Quirico; 11. Twin transitions? implementing climate policies in the European union through digital transformation Ottavio Quirico and Walter Baber; 12. Carbon sequestration and ocean governance: emerging challenges between traditional sovereign rights and the need for global regulation Patrizia Vigni; 13. Climate change and the arctic: a study of paradoxical linkages in complex systems Oran Young; 14. The Europen union's carbon border adjustment mechanism as a (generally lawful) countermeasure Ottavio Quirico; 15. Corporate self-regulation and climate: the legal trajectory of sustainability due diligence in the European Union Radu Mares; 16. Extending ecolabeling in response to climate change Alfredo Ferrante; 17. The role of judges in implementing climate policies: a comparative perspective on the separation of powers Ivano Alogna, Natalie Arnould and Alina Holzhausen; 18. Private climate litigation: enforcing corporate climate responsibility through dispute resolution? a taxonomy Andreas Hosli; 19. The International Court of Justice facing the existential threat of climate change: what legal questions and for whom? Laura Magi; 20. 'The story is part of the success': narrating climate change Katarzyna Kwapisz Williams; Conclusion; Documents; Cases; Bibliography; Index.