Browsing Law by Subject "Climate change"
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An analysis of the normative framework providing for human environmentally induced migration in SADC
(2014)Environmentally induced migration has been a contentious topic over the last two decades. Estimates show that over 30 million people worldwide are annually forced to migrate due to serious environmental degradation, natural ... -
City-level law and governance for water security in South Africa
(North-West University (South Africa)., 2023)South African cities are experiencing significant water challenges owing to urbanisation, climate change, and a confluence of social, economic, political, technical, and governance problems. These challenges are significantly ... -
The evolution of the climate change regime after the Copenhagen Accord
(North-West University, 2011)Climate change is a critical sustainable development issue with implications for the environment, economies and society as we know it. The problem of climate change is caused by some countries in parts of the world that ... -
The Implementation and Fulfilment of the Paris Agreement 2015 through South African Climate Change Law
(North-West University (South Africa)., 2023)Climate change has become an international 21st century environmental concern. Various anthropogenic activities and wide-scale use of fossil fuels have led to the increase of greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere, ... -
A legal analysis of South Africa's international climate change mitigation obligations in the renewable energy sector
(North-West University (South Africa), Potchefstroom Campus, 2016)Climate change has come across as an overriding environmental concern internationally in the 21st century. A variety of anthropogenic activities and wide-scale use of fossil fuels have exponentially increased greenhouse ... -
A legal perspective on the development of a South African local government climate change mitigation waste management framework
(North-West University (South Africa)., 2022)Climate change is a global phenomenon caused by human systems having negative impacts on nature, threatening continued human existence on earth. These impacts are caused by increased greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions into the ... -
The legal protection of cross–border climate–induced displaced persons in Southern Africa
(2013)The purpose of this study is to determine the extent to which existing law could provide a legal basis for the protection of cross-border, climate change displaced persons, with a particular focus on Southern Africa. Before ... -
Regulating green bonds as a driver for environmentally responsible investment in the South African energy sector
(North-West University (South Africa), 2021)Human economic activity through production processes and overuse of fossil fuels have unequivocally caused the negative impacts of climate change, producing green bonds critical threats to sustainability and thus ...