Climate change

Sumudu Atapattu and Carmen G. Gonzalez

Chapter 50 in Research Handbook on Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL), 2025, pp 609-621 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter highlights the groundbreaking work of TWAIL-affiliated environmental law scholars on climate change. The climate crisis has its origins in the Global North's relentless quest for cheap energy, labor, raw materials, and waste disposal through colonial and neocolonial interventions in the Global South. International law has played an essential role in justifying and facilitating the destruction of nature and the immiseration of the Global South not only through the laws governing trade, investment, and finance but also through foundational doctrines such as property, sovereignty, and development and through an ineffective and inequitable climate regime. Given the shared roots of the climate crisis and other structural injustices, the chapter calls for deeper engagement with climate change by TWAIL scholars who are not environmental law experts to destabilize the many bodies of law that enable the abuse of both humans and nature and threaten the future of life on the planet.

Keywords: TWAIL; Climate change; Climate justice; Global South; Colonialism; Neocolonialism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781789901511
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