Climate change and biodiversity law: Quo Vadis?

Caddell, Richard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9293-2467 and McCormack, Phillipa C. 2024. Climate change and biodiversity law: Quo Vadis? McCormack, Philippa C. and Caddell, Richard, eds. Research Handbook on Climate Change and Biodiversity Law, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 2-24. (10.4337/9781800370296.00008)

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Abstract

Global biodiversity faces a future that is both far warmer and more uncertain than ever before. One of the great achievements of the ongoing development of international environmental law, especially over the previous half-century, has been the emergence of specific and specialised regimes concerned with nature conservation. These treaties, actors, and institutions have pioneered innovative responses to threats facing biodiversity and have each played a key role in multilateral efforts to manage, conserve and preserve species and ecosystems. However, the current and projected ecological impacts associated with a changing climate pose daunting new challenges to this regime, exacerbating pre-existing institutional and managerial fault lines and undermining the comparative prior successes of the system in moderating aspects of the rapacious human consumption of global natural resources. This chapter introduces this book and outlines the key research directions adopted by the subsequent contributions. Climate change has been identified as a legally disruptive phenomenon that will continue to stress-test laws and institutions in a series of unforeseen and, in some cases, unforeseeable ways. As this chapter outlines, this book is an attempt to interrogate how biodiversity law might further evolve in its own disruptive ways to respond to the new realities of altered ecological conditions.

Item Type:	Book Section
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > Law
Publisher:	Edward Elgar
ISBN:	9781800370289
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	17 February 2025
Date of Acceptance:	1 November 2024
Last Modified:	24 Feb 2025 15:15
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/176257

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