Legal Strategies to Come to Grips with Climate Change

Abstract

This contribution is a summary of the book Shaping the Law for Global Crises.¹ This book was based on the idea that global crises, such as climate change, unsustainable development, environmental degradation, financial downturns, and even – albeit to a lesser extent – poverty have a lot in common. They largely have the same causes, namely short-term views and greed of those who wield power, and the inability of so many to resist mixing up personal interests with those they should focus on. If this assessment is by and large correct (although obviously not complete), it follows that the solutions are very