Document Type
Article
Publication Title
Environmental Law
Abstract
Can international power be effectively used to control ‘power’? Power sector carbon emissions to the environment must be solved for a solution to the international problem of climate change. Many of the large developing countries are underwriting the largest in world history push into more high-carbon coal-fired power, which will wholly frustrate world climate control goals. The United Nations scientific panel concluded, with high certainty, that the world is passing the point of being able to control increase in world temperature to less than 2 degrees C. (3.8 degrees Fahrenheit), the so-called ‘tipping point’ of the Planet’s climate.
Tightening the screws of international climate law is necessary. This article applies legal tools to assess key variable in the international regulation of climate. This article critically examines the various comparative international, national, and subnational legal tools now addressing what many consider the most pressing world problem – with a comparison of the U.S. deployment of tools to those tools deployed internationally. This article assesses what international law is and is not doing successfully, and uses these lessons to chart the successful path forward to sustainability and manageable climate impact.
First Page
1063
Last Page
1114
Publication Date
2015
Recommended Citation
Steven Ferrey, International Power on "Power", 45 Env't L. 1063 (2015).
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License