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1. If the Adaptation Fund Board (currently a body under the Kyoto Protocol) was designated as an operating entity under the (Financial Mechanism of the) UNFCCC would this affect the legal personality conferred under German law (by an act of parliament)? 2. How and to what degree does the act of parliament conferring legal personality […]

What is the analysis of the United States “ratification packages” of the following MEA’s: the 1982 Law of the Sea Convention, 2001 Stockholm Convention on POPs, and the Basel Convention and associated PIC Convention? For each example, please explain whether: (1) substantive compliance requires no domestic legislation to be enacted …

1. What is the difference between retroactive and retrospective application of a treaty? Is it, in international law, possible to retroactively and/or retrospectively apply the second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol? 2. Is it possible for New Zealand to provisionally apply the second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol? 3. Is it possible …

1. Does the constitution or any other law restrict the United States from contributing to a fund that is under the authority of the COP? 2. If the constitution or another law restricts the United States from contributing, are there any countervailing arguments that the country can contribute? 3. If there are no limitations, please […]