Climate change and the international regulation of migratory species

Caddell, Richard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9293-2467 2024. Climate change and the international regulation of migratory species. McCormack, Philippa C. and Caddell, Richard, eds. Research Handbook on Climate Change and Biodiversity Law, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 47-71. (10.4337/9781800370296.00010) Item availability restricted.

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Abstract

Migratory species face an array of conservation threats that will be steadily compounded by the impacts of global climate change. Internationally, migratory species are most directly protected under the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS), adopted in 1979. Climate change had yet to enter the multilateral consciousness at the time at which the treaty was elaborated. This chapter considers how the CMS regime has subsequently adapted to address the impacts of climate change on the many species under its regulatory purview. This chapter first considers the key conservation threats posed to migratory species, before examining the extent to which the CMS and its subsidiary instruments have prescribed climate change obligations and how these policies have evolved in recent decades as this threat has received greater traction under its sprawling regulatory auspices. This chapter accordingly focuses upon the core elements of climate policy that have emerged under the CMS regime, which may be primarily identified as scientific evaluation and coordination, habitat fragmentation and conservation, mitigating the impacts of renewable energy technologies upon migratory species, and collaboration with other regimes to foster cooperative strategies in the promotion of this mandate.

Item Type:	Book Section
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > Law
Publisher:	Edward Elgar
ISBN:	9781800370289
Date of Acceptance:	1 November 2024
Last Modified:	24 Feb 2025 15:27
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/176258

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