Table of Contents

Contents:

Foreword
Caitlin E. Werrell and Francesco Femia

1. The UN Security Council and Global Action on Climate Change
Shirley V. Scott and Charlotte Ku

2. Climate Change as a ‘Threat to International Peace and Security’
Christopher K. Penny

3. Climate Change and Economic Measures: One Assumption and One Scenario Too Many?
Francesco Sindico and Mallory Orme

4. The Creation of a Climate Change Court or Tribunal
Shirley V. Scott, Patrick J. Keenan and Charlotte Ku

5. ‘Climate Migration’ and the Security Council
Frédéric Mégret and Benoît Mayer

6. The United Nations Security Council’s Legislative and Enforcement Powers and Climate Change
Alan Boyle, Jacques Hartmann, and Annalisa Savaresi

7. Mainstreaming Climate Change Adaptation into Peace Missions
Paul F. Diehl

8. The EU’s Distinctive Approach to Climate Security
Shahrazad Far and Richard Youngs

9. The UN Security Council’s Role in Developing a Responsibility to Respond to the Climate Change Challenge
Charlotte Ku

10. Contested Legitimacy: The UN Security Council and Climate Change
Martin Binder and Monika Heupel

11. The Attitude of the P5 Towards a Climate Change Role for the Council
Shirley V. Scott

12. Conclusions: A Climate Change Role for the Council?
Charlotte Ku and Shirley V. Scott

Index

About the Author

Edited by Shirley V. Scott, Head of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, UNSW Canberra, Australia and Charlotte Ku, Professor of Law and Director, Global Programs, Texas A&M University School of Law, US

Reviews

‘This book does much to shape understanding of the serious debates being had, and to be had, about global responses to climate change and is worthy of its place in any decent international law, international politics or climate change collection.’
*Gary Wilson, Liverpool Law Review*

‘In sum, the book is a remarkable contribution to the debate about the UN Security Council’s potential engagement in global climate governance. It demonstrates the legal authority of the Council, the range of available policy options in the area of climate change, and related legitimacy, representativeness, and effectiveness challenges.’
*Lisa M. Dellmuth, Carbon & Climate Law Review*

‘Shirley Scott and Charlotte Ku have assembled a team of longstanding UN observers, primarily from the fields of international law and international relations. The result is a useful and accessible portrait of the Security Council’s powers, tendencies and limitations.'
*Nature Climate Change*