What is it about?
Groundwater is the most important water resource on earth and most of it is in transboundary aquifers. As all water resources, transboundary aquifers will certainly be affected by climate change. This article reviews the global climate change framework to investigate how it considers water, and groundwater in particular. It then considers the international legal regime applicable to groundwater resources to explore how it deals with climate change and to what extent it is compatible with the UNFCCC framework. It concludes with identifying the limits and possibilities of the groundwater regime in addressing climate change.
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Why is it important?
The paper represents a unique consideration and comparaison of both the international legal regime for climate change and the international legal regime for transboundary aquifers. It looks at their possible interaction, and how each one considers the other in view of the necessary mitigation and adaptation.
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This paper was a good opportunity for me to look deeply at the international legal regime for climate change from the UNFCCC and the Paris agreement, to the various declarations adopted at the different COPs, and to grab a better understanding. It also made me look at the law of transboundary aquifers through a different angle.
Raya Marina Stephan
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This page is a summary of: Climate change considerations under international groundwater law, Water International, August 2017, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/02508060.2017.1351911.
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