In June 2020, the research center for climate law ClimLaw: Graz was officially opened at the University of Graz, Austria. As part of the festive opening, distinguished members of the Scientific Board of ClimLaw: Graz and PhD students specialising in climate law gave presentations on current opportunities and challenges in climate law. This volume assembles the essays and provides a testimony of the official launch of ClimLaw: Graz. Climate change presents one of the greatest challenges of our time and calls for legal, interdisciplinary and coordinated responses. This volume offers a glimpse into the diverse and pressing issues of climate law subject to ongoing research at ClimLaw: Graz.
Current developments in climate law are critically observed and analysed from the national, EU and global perspective in steady dialogue with other disciplines. In doing so, ClimLaw: Graz is envisaged to become a nationally and internationally connected research, teaching and networking platform.

For interested readers, this book offers insight into selected aspects of the current legal debate on climate change and climate protection.

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Inhoudsopgave:

Avoiding Climate Catastrophe: Mission Impossible or Realistic Ambition? – The Challenges and Potential Crowbars to Stem the Tide (Jaap Spier); Climate Law and Climate Science: Joint Enabler of a New Climate Enlightenment? (Oliver C. Ruppel); Against the Taming of the Spinners – On the National Goal of Climate Protection – Lecture at the Opening Symposium ‘Clim Law Graz – Research Center for Climate Law’ (Ferdinand Kerschner); It Is Not the Winning But the Taking Part That Counts – The Symbolic and Indirect Effects of Strategic Climate Litigation (Carlotta Garofalo); ‘Legitimate Expectations’, State Subsidies and Climate Change Mitigation (Miriam Hofer); WTO Rules on Border Carbon Adjustment for the EU ETS: Key GATT Principles (Lydia A. Omuko-Jung); Balancing Decisions in Climate Law – How Economic Instruments Could Help to Increase Their Acceptance (Christoph Romirer); Resettlements as Spatial Adaptation Measures to Tackle Climate Change Impacts? (Markus Scharler); The European Green Deal – What Is in a Name? (Isabel Staudinger); The Ecuadorian Chevron Judgment – Blueprint for a Neoconstitutional Environmental Law? (Andreas Gutmann); List of editors and authors