| 英文摘要 |
The Paris Agreement passed in the COP 21 of UNFCCC was highly praised as a success model for global effort on responding climate change, yet its importance to the global society and Taiwan has not been fully elaborated. Why the COP is able to reach a global agreement? What’s the impact of the Paris Agreement on global and domestic climate change law? How should Taiwan prepare for the coming global legal order? This article examines the process and result of the Paris Agreement with an attempt to explore its impact on the global climate change law. This article argues that, the Paris Agreement presents a new model for global climate change law. It transforms the top-down, mitigation focused, and state obligation centered climate change model of the Kyoto Protocol to a model of bottom-up, comprehensive and procedural rules. This article further argues, the Paris Agreement will trigger worldwide legislation on climate change law, revitalize global carbon market and reconstruct global governance and law. This article then examines recent development of climate change law in Taiwan, and argues that Taiwan should be better prepared for the coming global climate change legal order with three ways: deepening climate change policy, reconstructing organizational and procedural settings and seeking opportunities in the new legal order. |
