Towards an Effective Climate Change Regime in South Africa: Policy and Legal Developments

Global climate change has been recognised as 'unequivocal'. Some of the changes observed in the environment include the melting of polar icecaps, rising sea levels, as well as more extreme weather conditions including droughts, tropical cyclone activity and heavy precipitation. These impac...

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Main Author:	Du Toit, Louise
Other Authors:	Glazewski, Jan
Format:	Dissertation
Language:	English
Published:	University of Cape Town 2014
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/11427/4472

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spelling	ndltd-netd.ac.za-oai-union.ndltd.org-uct-oai-localhost-11427-44722020-10-06T05:11:43Z Towards an Effective Climate Change Regime in South Africa: Policy and Legal Developments Du Toit, Louise Glazewski, Jan Global climate change has been recognised as 'unequivocal'. Some of the changes observed in the environment include the melting of polar icecaps, rising sea levels, as well as more extreme weather conditions including droughts, tropical cyclone activity and heavy precipitation. These impacts have been caused by a drastic increase in global levels of greenhouse gas emissions 'since 1750 as a result of human activities' and a consequent increase in global temperatures of more than half a degree Celsius since before the Industrial Revolution 2014-07-30T18:01:44Z 2014-07-30T18:01:44Z 2010 Master Thesis Masters LLM http://hdl.handle.net/11427/4472 eng application/pdf University of Cape Town Faculty of Law Institute of Marine and Environmental Law
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Towards an Effective Climate Change Regime in South Africa: Policy and Legal Developments

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