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25 Fordham Envtl. L. Rev. 625 (2013-2014)
The Climate Change Regime - Between a Rock and a Hard Place

handle is hein.journals/frdmev25 and id is 650 raw text is: THE CLIMATE CHANGE REGIME-BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE? Laurence Boisson de Chazournes * INTRODUCTION The phenomenon of climate change-also known as the greenhouse effect or global warming-has been featured on the international agenda since the 1980s. The risk of a significant increase in global temperature during the twenty-first century, caused by increased greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere, has led to broad agreement among States to build a regime to control the emissions of greenhouse gases. In addition to the natural component of the greenhouse effect, it is the emissions of anthropogenic origin that is held responsible for this phenomenon, notably due to the * Laurence Boisson de Chazournes has been a professor at the Law Faculty of the University of Geneva since 1999, and the Head of the Department of Public International Law and International Organization between 1999 and 2009. She has been and is a visiting professor at the University of Aix-Marseille III, the University of Paris I (Sorbonne), the University of Paris II (Pantheon-Assas), and the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, and has been invited as guest lecturer in numerous universities in Europe, North America, Latin America, Africa, and Asia. She has gained a wide-ranging reputation in academic circles for her contribution to international law, in such fields as the law of international organizations, international economic law and international environmental law, while at the same time being recognized for her practical work as Senior Counsel to the World Bank and as advisor to many international organizations. In the field of dispute settlement she has served as chairperson of World Trade Organization (WTO) arbitration panels on pre-shipment inspections and as an arbitrator for the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and for other arbitration fora. She has acted as Counsel before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and other dispute settlement fora. She is a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, a member of the WTO indicative list of governmental and non-governmental panelists, an arbitrator of the Court of Arbitration for Sport, and a Member of the list of Arbitrators of the French National Committee (ICC). She holds a Ph.D. in international law from the Graduate Institute (summa cum laude), has passed the Bar exam in France, has a 625

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