Reparation for Climate Change: The Successes and Limits of Litigation
- Quelle
- suigeneris-verlag.ch ↗
- Herausgeber/innen
- Helen Keller, Corina Heri
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- Reparation for Climate Change: The Successes and Limits of Litigation 073
- Verlag
- sui generis Verlag
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- Englisch
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- 10.38107/073
Helen Keller
Corina Heri — Seite 2 —About the digital version of this book:
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Table of Contents
Preface IX Acknowledgments XI Biographies XIII Table of Abbreviations XVII
Helen Keller and Corina Heri
Introduction1Helen Keller, Corina Heri and Pranav Ganesan Model Scenarios13Part One: Modeling and Valuing Climate-Related Harms21Francesca Leucci Chapter 1: Remedying the Immeasurable — The Economic Perspective on Climate Damages23Alberto Monti Chapter 2: Insurance, Reinsurance and Financial Sectors’ Perspectives on Quantifying Climate Change-related Harms39Arden Rowell Chapter 3: Psychology and the Quantitative Valuation of Climate Loss and Damage63Jason Rudall Chapter 4: Full and Fair Reparation for Environmental Damage — The Story So Far…79Viktoriya Gurash Chapter 5: Interim Reflection99Part Two: Litigation Strategies, Possibilities and Risks109Jannika Jahn Chapter 6: Climate Litigation as a Regulatory Tool — Tracing Impact and Success of the German Constitutional Court’s Climate Decision111April Williamson, Joe Udell and Filippo P. Fantozzi Chapter 7: Success in Climate Litigation — the Impacts and Influence of Systemic Litigation against Governments135— Seite 6 —VI Table of Contents
Charlotte
E. Blattner
Chapter 8: KlimaSeniorinnen v Switzerland — On Storybook Victories,
Double-Victimization, and Why Success is a Matter of Relativity159Hazhar Jamali Chapter 9: Interim Reflection197Part Three: Critical Perspectives on Remedies and Implementation205Yusra Suedi Chapter 10: The Quest for Reparations in the International Climate Regime — Hopes and Hurdles207Usha Natarajan Chapter 11: Climate Reparations as Truth229Linnéa Nordlander Chapter 12: Conceptualizing Loss and Damage for a New Frontier of Rights-Based Climate Change Litigation251Sara L. Seck Chapter 13: Can Monetization of Loss and Damage Contribute to Climate Justice? A Relational Approach271Pranav Ganesan Chapter 14: Interim Reflection287Part Four: Corporate Liability for Climate Change297Valentin Jentsch Chapter 15: Climate Change Litigation against Carbon Majors299Josephine van Zeben Chapter 16: Establishing Corporate Climate Citizenship — Regulation and/or Reparations?321Monika Hinteregger Chapter 17: Private Law Instruments for Climate Change Damage — Challenges and Limits339Larisa Alwin Chapter 18: Interim Reflection357— Seite 7 —Table of Contents VII
Part Five: The Successes and Limits of Litigation365Helen Keller and Corina Heri Chapter 19: Synthesis367Table of cases395Index407— Seite 9 —IX