• Climate Lawsuit.org - For information regarding the lawsuit filed against the U.S. Export-Import and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation a website has been set up by Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth
• Case filed by 8 States & NYC (from website of Law Offices of Matthew F. Pawa, P.C)

• Inuit Circumpolar Conference (ICC)
• Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS)

Existing & Proposed GHG Emissions Regulations:

• Kyoto Protocol
• UK Emissions Trading Scheme
  
• New England Governors and Eastern Canadian Premiers Climate Action Plan: Proposed regional GHG emissions cap and trade scheme.
  
• Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI): Proposed regional GHG cap and trade scheme for power plants operating in 9 New England states.
  
• "Pavley's Law": California law AB 1493, to limit carbon emissions from vehicles sold in the state.
• European GHG emissions regulation scheme: Directive 2003/87/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council, Oct. 13, 2003. Available in the Official Journal of the European Union.
• Climate Stewardship Act of 2003: Failed bill in the U.S. Senate. Proposed by John McCain and Joe Lieberman.

Policy Papers:

• Pew Center on Global Climate Change - Policy papers on climate change

Law Review Articles & Other Supplemental Materials:

• Official Journal of the European Union
• Grossman, David, A., Warming Up To A Not So Radical Idea: Tort-Based Climate Change Litigation, 28 Colum. J. Envtl. L. 1 (2003).
• Healy, Kevin J. and Tapick, Jeffrey, M., Climate Change: It's Not Just a Policy Issue for Corporate Counsel - It's a Legal Problem, 29 Colum. J. Envtl. L. 89 (2004).
• Penalver, Eduardo, Acts of God or Toxic Torts?, 38 Nat. Resources J. 563.
• Strauss, Andrew, From Gattzilla to the Green Giant: Winning the Environmental Battle for the Soul of the WTO, 19 U. Pa. J. Int'l Econ. L. 769.
• Reed, Rosemary, Rising Seas and Disappearing Islands: Can Island Inhabitants Seek Redress Under the ATCA?, 11 Pac. Rim. L. & Pol'y J. 399.
• Culley, Dennis, Global Warming, Sea Level Rise and Tort, 8 Ocean & Coastal L. J. 91.
• Roht-Arriaza, Naomi, Shifting the Point of Regulation: The International Organization for Standardization and Global Lawmaking on Trade and the Environment, 22 Ecology L.Q. 479.
• Gillespie, Alexander, Small Island States in the Face of Climate Change: The End of the Line in International Environmental Law, 22 UCLA J. Envtl. L. & Pol'y 107
• Hodas, David R., Standing and Climate Change: Can Anyone Complain About the Weather, 15 J. Land Use & Envtl. L. 451
• Tol, Richard S.J., & Roda Verheyen, State Responsibility and Compensation for Climate Change Damages, Energy Policy 32 (2004) 1109-1130 (Available by searching online using key wording)
• Marburg, Kristen L., 2001 Yearbook: Air and Atmosphere: Combating the Impacts of Global Warming: A Novel Legal Strategy, 2001 Colo. J. Int'l Envtl. L. & Pol'y 171
• Kerr, Michael, Tort Based Climate Change Litigation in Australia, Available at the Australian Conservation Society Website at: http://www.acfonline.org.au/asp/pages/home.asp
• Strauss, Andrew, The Legal Option: Suing the U.S. in International Forums for Global Warming Emissions, Environmental Law Reporter (March 2003)
• Lee, John, The Underlying Legal Theory to Support a Well-Defined Human Right to a Healthy Environment as a Principle of Customary International Law, 25 Colum. J. Envtl. L. 283.

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