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Promesses et limites de la reconnaissance des droits de la nature: Le cas des décisions attribuant la personnalité juridique au Gange et à la Yamuna (2024)
Book Chapter
Cullet, P. (2024). Promesses et limites de la reconnaissance des droits de la nature: Le cas des décisions attribuant la personnalité juridique au Gange et à la Yamuna. In L. Boisson de Chazournes (Ed.), L'effectivité du droit international face à l'urgence écologique (167-188). Collège de France. https://doi.org/10.4000/12nrh

Environmental Disasters and Climate Change (2024)
Book Chapter
Ohdedar, B. (2024). Environmental Disasters and Climate Change. In P. Cullet, L. Bhullar, & S. Koonan (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Environmental and Natural Resources Law in India (569-588). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198884682.013.32

This chapter analyses the legal framework for environmental disasters in India in the context of intensifying climate impacts. The Disaster Management Act, 2005 (DMA) is the primary legal framework governing disasters. In addition, other areas of law... Read More about Environmental Disasters and Climate Change.

Beyond the Paris Agreement: Need for New Thinking to Tackle the Climate Crisis (2024)
Book Chapter
Cullet, P. (2024). Beyond the Paris Agreement: Need for New Thinking to Tackle the Climate Crisis. In A. Zahar (Ed.), Research Handbook on the Law of the Paris Agreement (403-416). Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800886742.00025

The Paris Agreement was and remains the most advanced effort by states to tackle the climate crisis. Yet, as the crisis worsens year after year, it is increasingly clear that neither the original Agreement nor subsequent developments provide the answ... Read More about Beyond the Paris Agreement: Need for New Thinking to Tackle the Climate Crisis.

SDG 10: Reduce Inequality Within and Among Countries (2022)
Book Chapter
Cullet, P. (2022). SDG 10: Reduce Inequality Within and Among Countries. In J. Ebbesson, & E. Hey (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of the Sustainable Development Goals and International Law (258-280). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108769631.012

Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 10, Reduced Inequalities, addresses one of the fundamental building blocks for the realization of all SDGs in a very unequal world. It emphasizes both interstate and intrastate inequality and, in so doing, goes much... Read More about SDG 10: Reduce Inequality Within and Among Countries.

Common but Differentiated Responsibilities (2021)
Book Chapter
Cullet, P. (2021). Common but Differentiated Responsibilities. In M. Fitzmaurice, M. Brus, & P. Merkouris (Eds.), Research Handbook on International Environmental Law, 2nd edition (209-228). Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781786439710.00017

The principle of common but differentiated responsibilities (CBDR) is the emanation of equity in international environmental law. It reflects the division of the world between the global South and the global North, which has been a structuring elemen... Read More about Common but Differentiated Responsibilities.

Differentiation (2021)
Book Chapter
Cullet, P. (2021). Differentiation. In L. Rajamani, & J. Peel (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of International Environmental Law, 2nd editon (319-334). Oxford University Press

This chapter explores differential treatment, which is one of the main instruments that exist in international environmental law to foster equity. It builds on ideas of global distributive justice and helps to rebalance some of the most visible inequ... Read More about Differentiation.

Foreword (2021)
Book Chapter
Cullet, P. (2021). Foreword. In D. A. Kharchandy, & K. Nongrum (Eds.), Understanding Water Crisis (xix-xxi). Lakshi Publishers

Water Law and Development (2021)
Book Chapter
Cullet, P. (2021). Water Law and Development. In J. Dellapenna, & J. Gupta (Eds.), Water Law (391-401). Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781783477005.X.29

This chapter examines water law in a global South-global North context. It looks at the recent evolution of water law, divided between a push for recognising water as an economic good that can be traded like any other commodity and a counter push for... Read More about Water Law and Development.