Soft Law in the Climate Change Legal Regime from the Perspective of Legal Positivism

In the formulation and development of the international climate change legal regime, a retreat from binding compliance mechanisms and a shift towards the use of softer legal framework and bottom-up designs can be seen. Regardless of the effectiveness of international climate agreements in managing c...

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Main Authors: Mansour Airom, Hojjat Salimi Turkamani, Mohammad Musazadeh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Shahr-e- Danesh Research And Study Institute of Law 2023-05-01
Series:پژوهشهای حقوقی
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Online Access:https://jlr.sdil.ac.ir/article_146778_c5eb93e1e8e525778d15abf1849b9045.pdf
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description In the formulation and development of the international climate change legal regime, a retreat from binding compliance mechanisms and a shift towards the use of softer legal framework and bottom-up designs can be seen. Regardless of the effectiveness of international climate agreements in managing climate change, in terms of the use of hard or soft law and the type of compliance mechanisms design, this article seeks to find and examine the reasons for the soft law prevalence in the process of international climate law development from the perspective of the school of legal positivism.According to the positivist approach, although the mixing of wills, arising from objective and scientific facts, has provided the necessary force to shape the international climate change regime, the duality in the system of obligations and interests multiplicity of internal influential groups in the process of accepting treaties has caused the collapse of the States collective will before Paris Agreement. Therefore, in the Paris Agreement, with the preference of voluntarism over climatic requirements and attention to the national sovereignty of countries with the waiver of strict obligations, the ground for concluding an agreement and making a change in the legal regime of climate change was achieved.
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spelling doaj.art-3f92955e93cd40129915b58d7942396c2023-07-20T16:30:44ZengShahr-e- Danesh Research And Study Institute of Lawپژوهشهای حقوقی1682-92202717-00202023-05-01225333135810.48300/jlr.2022.324897.1923146778Soft Law in the Climate Change Legal Regime from the Perspective of Legal PositivismMansour Airom0Hojjat Salimi Turkamani1Mohammad Musazadeh2Ph.D. Student in International Law, Maragheh Branch, Islamic Azad University, Maragheh, Iran.Associate Professor, Department of International Law, Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University, Tabriz, Iran.Assistant Professor, Department of International Law, Maragheh University, Maragheh, Iran.In the formulation and development of the international climate change legal regime, a retreat from binding compliance mechanisms and a shift towards the use of softer legal framework and bottom-up designs can be seen. Regardless of the effectiveness of international climate agreements in managing climate change, in terms of the use of hard or soft law and the type of compliance mechanisms design, this article seeks to find and examine the reasons for the soft law prevalence in the process of international climate law development from the perspective of the school of legal positivism.According to the positivist approach, although the mixing of wills, arising from objective and scientific facts, has provided the necessary force to shape the international climate change regime, the duality in the system of obligations and interests multiplicity of internal influential groups in the process of accepting treaties has caused the collapse of the States collective will before Paris Agreement. Therefore, in the Paris Agreement, with the preference of voluntarism over climatic requirements and attention to the national sovereignty of countries with the waiver of strict obligations, the ground for concluding an agreement and making a change in the legal regime of climate change was achieved.https://jlr.sdil.ac.ir/article_146778_c5eb93e1e8e525778d15abf1849b9045.pdfclimate agreementskyoto protocolparis agreementlegal positivismsoft law
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Soft Law in the Climate Change Legal Regime from the Perspective of Legal Positivism
پژوهشهای حقوقی
climate agreements
kyoto protocol
paris agreement
legal positivism
soft law
title Soft Law in the Climate Change Legal Regime from the Perspective of Legal Positivism
title_full Soft Law in the Climate Change Legal Regime from the Perspective of Legal Positivism
title_fullStr Soft Law in the Climate Change Legal Regime from the Perspective of Legal Positivism
title_full_unstemmed Soft Law in the Climate Change Legal Regime from the Perspective of Legal Positivism
title_short Soft Law in the Climate Change Legal Regime from the Perspective of Legal Positivism
title_sort soft law in the climate change legal regime from the perspective of legal positivism
topic climate agreements
kyoto protocol
paris agreement
legal positivism
soft law
url https://jlr.sdil.ac.ir/article_146778_c5eb93e1e8e525778d15abf1849b9045.pdf
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