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In: in Benoit Mayer & Alexander Zahar, Debating Climate Law (Cambridge University Press 2021)
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Description:
This document presents one view in a debate on the relevance of environmental impact assessment as a tool for climate change mitigation. In this piece, I argue that CA is emerging as a rule of customary international law, and that, moreover, it is a potentially useful mitigation tool. In another piece included in the same volume, Alexander Zahar questions the meaningfulness of CA, arguing that it is impossible to determine what constitutes a significant, excessive, or disproportionate emission of greenhouse gases in the case of a proposed activity subject to CA, or at all