Climate Change Law and Policy EU and US Approaches

Existing climate change governance regimes in the US and the EU contain complex mixtures of regulatory, market, voluntary, and research-based strategies. The EU has adopted an approach to climate change that is based on mandatory greenhouse gas emission r

Cinnamon Pinon Carlarne is an Assistant Professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law & School of the Environment. She is an environmental lawyer interested in evolving systems of domestic and international environmental law and governance. Dr Carlarne earned her JD at the University of California, Berkeley before reading for an MSc in Environmental Change and Management and the BCL in law as a Marshall Scholar at the University of Oxford. She worked in private practice in Washington DC before returning to academia. She was the Harold Woods Junior Research Fellow in Environmental Law at Wadham College, University of Oxford before joining the University of South Carolina. Her current work focuses on comparative climate change law and policy-making, and global environmental governance.

Part I: The Politics of International Climate Change
1. The Role of the United States and the European Union in International Climate Change Politics
Part II: Climate Change Law and Policy in the USA
2. Climate Change Laws and Policies in the United States
3. Sub-Federal Climate Change Law & Policy-making in the United States
4. Alternative Forms of Climate Change Law & Policy-making in the United States
Part III: Climate Change Law and Policy in the European Union
5. Climate Change Laws and Policies in the European Union
6. Member State Climate Change Laws & Policies in the European Union
Part IV: A Comparison of United States' and European Union's Climate Change Laws and Policies
7. United States and European Union Climate Change Laws and Policies Compared
8. Socio-Legal Factors Influencing Climate Change Law and Policy-making in the United States and European Union
Part V: The Future of International Climate Change Policies
9. Conclusions & the Way Forward