Lavanya Rajamani
Biographic Data
| ID | 1318005 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lavanya Rajamani |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lavanya |
| FAMILY NAME | Rajamani |
| SIGNATURE | RAJAMANI L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre for Policy Research |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1977-9574 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 150 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
The Trump Administration Steps Back from International Environmental Cooperation
Empowering International Law to Address Claims for Climate Reparations
A fundamental and widely recognized inequity at the core of the existential climate crisis facing the planet today is that those who have contributed the least to climate change are also the most affected. The United States, European Union-28, Russia, Japan, and Canada, according to some accounts, are together responsible for 85 percent of global greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions thus far. 1 Yet it is the climate vulnerable—least developed countri…
Turning a groundswell of climate action into ground rules for net zero
The meaning of net zero and how to get it right
The Oxford Handbook of International Environmental Law
The second edition of this leading reference work provides a comprehensive discussion of the dynamic and important field of international law concerned with environmental protection. The handbook discusses the key principles underpinning international environmental law, its relevant actors and tools, and rules applying in its substantive sub-fields such as climate law, oceans law, wildlife and biodiversity law, and hazardous substances regulation…
Oxford Handbook of International Environmental Law
The Paris Rulebook: Balancing International Prescriptiveness With National Discretion
This article discusses the importance of the recently concluded Paris Rulebook, the extent to which it limits national discretion, instils discipline and generates ambition and accountability, and the challenges that lie ahead in implementing the 2015 Paris Agreement. It discusses, in particular, the rules on mitigation, transparency, the global stocktake and the implementation and compliance mechanism, in order to highlight the choices Parties m…
International Law and the Constitutional Schema
This chapter examines the Indian constitutional scheme with regard to international law. It begins with an overview of the doctrinal debates surrounding key constitutional provisions relating to international law, with particular emphasis on Article 51(c) of the Indian Constitution. It then considers how Indian courts have viewed norms of international law with respect to the constitutional guidance to ‘foster respect for international law and tr…
Ambition and Differentiation in the 2015 Paris Agreement: Interpretative Possibilities and Underlying Politics
The 2015 Paris Agreement represents a historic achievement in multilateral diplomacy. After years of deeply discordant negotiations, Parties harnessed the political will necessary to arrive at a climate change agreement that strikes a careful balance between ambition and differentiation. The Paris Agreement contains aspirational goals, binding obligations of conduct in relation to mitigation, a rigorous system of oversight, and a nuanced form of …
The Papal Encyclical & The Role of Common but Differentiated Responsibilities in the International Climate Change Negotiations
A fundamental theme running through the remarkable 192-page Papal Encyclical on Climate Change is the notion of solidarity—;between nations and peoples, and between and within generations. In the words of the Encyclical, “[w]e require a new and universal solidarity.”. This translates, in the Encyclical’s vision, into principled cooperation between states and peoples, because “[a]ll of us can cooperate as instruments of God for the care of creatio…
The Devilish Details: Key Legal Issues in the 2015 Climate Negotiations
The ongoing UN negotiations for a 2015 climate agreement have yet to resolve two fundamental legal issues on which its effectiveness will hinge. The first is the precise legal form this agreement will take. P arties had agreed to work towards a ‘protocol, another legal instrument or an agreed outcome with legal force under the C onvention applicable to all P arties’. This leaves scope for a range of possible legal forms, only some of which are le…
The Warsaw Climate Negotiations: Emerging Understandings and Battle Lines on the Road to the 2015 Climate Agreement
The Warsaw conference, 2013, marked the halfway point from the Durban conference, 2011, that launched negotiations towards a 2015 climate agreement and the Paris conference, 2015, slated as the deadline for these negotiations. As such, the Warsaw conference needed to register a step change in the process—from the airing of differences to negotiating them. It also needed to create the conditions necessary to reach agreement in 2015. This article a…
EU Climate Change Unilateralism
The EU is engaged in an ambitious, controversial, and high-stakes experiment to extend the reach of its climate change law. It is seeking to use its market power to stimulate climate action, and to substitute for climate inaction, elsewhere. This is most apparent in relation to the EU's decision to include aviation in its emissions trading scheme. While we are sympathetic to the EU's objectives, and do not take issue with its unilateral means, we…
The Durban Platform for Enhanced Action and the Future of the Climate Regime
The Durban Climate Conference, 1 marked by tension, high drama and sleepless nights, agreed on a set of historic decisions under the climate regime 36 hours after the scheduled end of the conference. The climate regime—comprising the 1992 Framework Convention on Climate Change 2 and its 1997 Kyoto Protocol, 3 and decisions taken by Parties under these instruments—has been plagued in the last few years, in particular after the debacle at Copenhage…
The changing fortunes of differential treatment in the evolution of international environmental law
This article traces the evolution of international environmental law and dialogue in the four decades from Stockholm, 1972, to Rio+20, 2012, with a focus on the changing dynamics of the discourse between developed and developing countries, and the corresponding interpretational shifts in the application of differential treatment in international environmental law—climate change law in particular. This article argues that in the first three decade…
The Cancun Climate Agreements: Reading the Text, Subtext and Tea Leaves
The Cancun Agreements, hailed by Patricia Espinosa, Mexican Secretary of Foreign Affairs and President of the Cancun Conference, as launching ‘a new era of international cooperation on climate change,’ 1 were concluded on 11 December 2010 to widespread acclaim. These agreements that will guide the climate negotiations for the foreseeable future represent another twist in the tale of the ongoing negotiations
Iii. The Making and Unmaking of the Copenhagen Accord
The last two years have witnessed a flurry of diplomatic activity on climate change. In addition to the 16 weeks of scheduled inter-governmental negotiations under the auspices of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC), meetings, many at a Ministerial level, were convened by the G-8, the Major Economies Forum, the UN Secretary General, and Denmark, the host of the 15 th Conference of Parties (COP-15) to the FCCC. Notwithstanding reg…
India and Climate Change: What India Wants, Needs, and Needs to Do
Addressing the ‘Post-Kyoto’ Stress Disorder: Reflections on the Emerging Legal Architecture of the Climate Regime
In December 2007, the international community adopted the Bali Action Plan which launched a process to reach an ‘agreed outcome’ on long-term cooperative action on climate change, with a scheduled end in Copenhagen, December 2009. The term ‘an agreed outcome’ suggests a lack of agreement on both the legal form that the likely outcome of this process could take, and the level of ambition that it should reflect. This lack of agreement continues to …
From Berlin to Bali and Beyond: Killing Kyoto Softly
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Ambition and Differentiation in the 2015 Paris Agreement: Interpretative Possibilities and Underlying Politics
The 2015 Paris Agreement represents a historic achievement in multilateral diplomacy. After years of deeply discordant negotiations, Parties harnessed the political will necessary to arrive at a climate change agreement that strikes a careful balance between ambition and differentiation. The Paris Agreement contains aspirational goals, binding obligations of conduct in relation to mitigation, a rigorous system of oversight, and a nuanced form of …
The Cancun Climate Agreements: Reading the Text, Subtext and Tea Leaves
The Cancun Agreements, hailed by Patricia Espinosa, Mexican Secretary of Foreign Affairs and President of the Cancun Conference, as launching ‘a new era of international cooperation on climate change,’ 1 were concluded on 11 December 2010 to widespread acclaim. These agreements that will guide the climate negotiations for the foreseeable future represent another twist in the tale of the ongoing negotiations
The Paris Rulebook: Balancing International Prescriptiveness With National Discretion
This article discusses the importance of the recently concluded Paris Rulebook, the extent to which it limits national discretion, instils discipline and generates ambition and accountability, and the challenges that lie ahead in implementing the 2015 Paris Agreement. It discusses, in particular, the rules on mitigation, transparency, the global stocktake and the implementation and compliance mechanism, in order to highlight the choices Parties m…
The changing fortunes of differential treatment in the evolution of international environmental law
This article traces the evolution of international environmental law and dialogue in the four decades from Stockholm, 1972, to Rio+20, 2012, with a focus on the changing dynamics of the discourse between developed and developing countries, and the corresponding interpretational shifts in the application of differential treatment in international environmental law—climate change law in particular. This article argues that in the first three decade…
Iii. The Making and Unmaking of the Copenhagen Accord
The last two years have witnessed a flurry of diplomatic activity on climate change. In addition to the 16 weeks of scheduled inter-governmental negotiations under the auspices of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC), meetings, many at a Ministerial level, were convened by the G-8, the Major Economies Forum, the UN Secretary General, and Denmark, the host of the 15 th Conference of Parties (COP-15) to the FCCC. Notwithstanding reg…
The Durban Platform for Enhanced Action and the Future of the Climate Regime
The Durban Climate Conference, 1 marked by tension, high drama and sleepless nights, agreed on a set of historic decisions under the climate regime 36 hours after the scheduled end of the conference. The climate regime—comprising the 1992 Framework Convention on Climate Change 2 and its 1997 Kyoto Protocol, 3 and decisions taken by Parties under these instruments—has been plagued in the last few years, in particular after the debacle at Copenhage…
From Berlin to Bali and Beyond: Killing Kyoto Softly
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
EU Climate Change Unilateralism
The EU is engaged in an ambitious, controversial, and high-stakes experiment to extend the reach of its climate change law. It is seeking to use its market power to stimulate climate action, and to substitute for climate inaction, elsewhere. This is most apparent in relation to the EU's decision to include aviation in its emissions trading scheme. While we are sympathetic to the EU's objectives, and do not take issue with its unilateral means, we…
Addressing the ‘Post-Kyoto’ Stress Disorder: Reflections on the Emerging Legal Architecture of the Climate Regime
In December 2007, the international community adopted the Bali Action Plan which launched a process to reach an ‘agreed outcome’ on long-term cooperative action on climate change, with a scheduled end in Copenhagen, December 2009. The term ‘an agreed outcome’ suggests a lack of agreement on both the legal form that the likely outcome of this process could take, and the level of ambition that it should reflect. This lack of agreement continues to …
The Devilish Details: Key Legal Issues in the 2015 Climate Negotiations
The ongoing UN negotiations for a 2015 climate agreement have yet to resolve two fundamental legal issues on which its effectiveness will hinge. The first is the precise legal form this agreement will take. P arties had agreed to work towards a ‘protocol, another legal instrument or an agreed outcome with legal force under the C onvention applicable to all P arties’. This leaves scope for a range of possible legal forms, only some of which are le…
India and Climate Change: What India Wants, Needs, and Needs to Do
The Warsaw Climate Negotiations: Emerging Understandings and Battle Lines on the Road to the 2015 Climate Agreement
The Warsaw conference, 2013, marked the halfway point from the Durban conference, 2011, that launched negotiations towards a 2015 climate agreement and the Paris conference, 2015, slated as the deadline for these negotiations. As such, the Warsaw conference needed to register a step change in the process—from the airing of differences to negotiating them. It also needed to create the conditions necessary to reach agreement in 2015. This article a…
From Berlin to Bali and Beyond: Killing Kyoto Softly
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
India and Climate Change: What India Wants, Needs, and Needs to Do
Addressing the ‘Post-Kyoto’ Stress Disorder: Reflections on the Emerging Legal Architecture of the Climate Regime
In December 2007, the international community adopted the Bali Action Plan which launched a process to reach an ‘agreed outcome’ on long-term cooperative action on climate change, with a scheduled end in Copenhagen, December 2009. The term ‘an agreed outcome’ suggests a lack of agreement on both the legal form that the likely outcome of this process could take, and the level of ambition that it should reflect. This lack of agreement continues to …
Iii. The Making and Unmaking of the Copenhagen Accord
The last two years have witnessed a flurry of diplomatic activity on climate change. In addition to the 16 weeks of scheduled inter-governmental negotiations under the auspices of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC), meetings, many at a Ministerial level, were convened by the G-8, the Major Economies Forum, the UN Secretary General, and Denmark, the host of the 15 th Conference of Parties (COP-15) to the FCCC. Notwithstanding reg…
The Cancun Climate Agreements: Reading the Text, Subtext and Tea Leaves
The Cancun Agreements, hailed by Patricia Espinosa, Mexican Secretary of Foreign Affairs and President of the Cancun Conference, as launching ‘a new era of international cooperation on climate change,’ 1 were concluded on 11 December 2010 to widespread acclaim. These agreements that will guide the climate negotiations for the foreseeable future represent another twist in the tale of the ongoing negotiations
EU Climate Change Unilateralism
The EU is engaged in an ambitious, controversial, and high-stakes experiment to extend the reach of its climate change law. It is seeking to use its market power to stimulate climate action, and to substitute for climate inaction, elsewhere. This is most apparent in relation to the EU's decision to include aviation in its emissions trading scheme. While we are sympathetic to the EU's objectives, and do not take issue with its unilateral means, we…
The Durban Platform for Enhanced Action and the Future of the Climate Regime
The Durban Climate Conference, 1 marked by tension, high drama and sleepless nights, agreed on a set of historic decisions under the climate regime 36 hours after the scheduled end of the conference. The climate regime—comprising the 1992 Framework Convention on Climate Change 2 and its 1997 Kyoto Protocol, 3 and decisions taken by Parties under these instruments—has been plagued in the last few years, in particular after the debacle at Copenhage…
The changing fortunes of differential treatment in the evolution of international environmental law
This article traces the evolution of international environmental law and dialogue in the four decades from Stockholm, 1972, to Rio+20, 2012, with a focus on the changing dynamics of the discourse between developed and developing countries, and the corresponding interpretational shifts in the application of differential treatment in international environmental law—climate change law in particular. This article argues that in the first three decade…
The Warsaw Climate Negotiations: Emerging Understandings and Battle Lines on the Road to the 2015 Climate Agreement
The Warsaw conference, 2013, marked the halfway point from the Durban conference, 2011, that launched negotiations towards a 2015 climate agreement and the Paris conference, 2015, slated as the deadline for these negotiations. As such, the Warsaw conference needed to register a step change in the process—from the airing of differences to negotiating them. It also needed to create the conditions necessary to reach agreement in 2015. This article a…
The Papal Encyclical & The Role of Common but Differentiated Responsibilities in the International Climate Change Negotiations
A fundamental theme running through the remarkable 192-page Papal Encyclical on Climate Change is the notion of solidarity—;between nations and peoples, and between and within generations. In the words of the Encyclical, “[w]e require a new and universal solidarity.”. This translates, in the Encyclical’s vision, into principled cooperation between states and peoples, because “[a]ll of us can cooperate as instruments of God for the care of creatio…
The Devilish Details: Key Legal Issues in the 2015 Climate Negotiations
The ongoing UN negotiations for a 2015 climate agreement have yet to resolve two fundamental legal issues on which its effectiveness will hinge. The first is the precise legal form this agreement will take. P arties had agreed to work towards a ‘protocol, another legal instrument or an agreed outcome with legal force under the C onvention applicable to all P arties’. This leaves scope for a range of possible legal forms, only some of which are le…
Ambition and Differentiation in the 2015 Paris Agreement: Interpretative Possibilities and Underlying Politics
The 2015 Paris Agreement represents a historic achievement in multilateral diplomacy. After years of deeply discordant negotiations, Parties harnessed the political will necessary to arrive at a climate change agreement that strikes a careful balance between ambition and differentiation. The Paris Agreement contains aspirational goals, binding obligations of conduct in relation to mitigation, a rigorous system of oversight, and a nuanced form of …
International Law and the Constitutional Schema
This chapter examines the Indian constitutional scheme with regard to international law. It begins with an overview of the doctrinal debates surrounding key constitutional provisions relating to international law, with particular emphasis on Article 51(c) of the Indian Constitution. It then considers how Indian courts have viewed norms of international law with respect to the constitutional guidance to ‘foster respect for international law and tr…
The Paris Rulebook: Balancing International Prescriptiveness With National Discretion
This article discusses the importance of the recently concluded Paris Rulebook, the extent to which it limits national discretion, instils discipline and generates ambition and accountability, and the challenges that lie ahead in implementing the 2015 Paris Agreement. It discusses, in particular, the rules on mitigation, transparency, the global stocktake and the implementation and compliance mechanism, in order to highlight the choices Parties m…
The Oxford Handbook of International Environmental Law
The second edition of this leading reference work provides a comprehensive discussion of the dynamic and important field of international law concerned with environmental protection. The handbook discusses the key principles underpinning international environmental law, its relevant actors and tools, and rules applying in its substantive sub-fields such as climate law, oceans law, wildlife and biodiversity law, and hazardous substances regulation…
Oxford Handbook of International Environmental Law
The meaning of net zero and how to get it right
Turning a groundswell of climate action into ground rules for net zero
The Trump Administration Steps Back from International Environmental Cooperation
Empowering International Law to Address Claims for Climate Reparations
A fundamental and widely recognized inequity at the core of the existential climate crisis facing the planet today is that those who have contributed the least to climate change are also the most affected. The United States, European Union-28, Russia, Japan, and Canada, according to some accounts, are together responsible for 85 percent of global greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions thus far. 1 Yet it is the climate vulnerable—least developed countri…
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