Climate change law and the crisis of the energy model in the context of transition
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Climate Change, Energy Model, Multilevel Regulation, Energy TransitionAbstract
This analysis is an overview of the legal regulation of the climate crisis, which is shown to be, first and foremost, a crisis of the energy model, and its main objective is to demonstrate how the multi-level structuring of the so-called climate change law contributes to the mitigating actions of States in the face of the effects of the crisis. This issue has its importance revealed in the structuring of this new normative system, in order to foster sustainable development (industrial, scientific and technological) accompanied by constant environmental protection. This analysis then seeks to demonstrate how multi-level legal and normative protection is provided in the face of the threats of the climate crisis, and its levels of enforcement, on an internationalist platform that designs a legal regime for climate change, which forces the emergence of an energy model with low or zero GHG emissions. The methodological option for constructing this rationale is bibliographical research, based on logical-deductive principles, revealed in a panoramic study of the legal phenomenon under analysis, from its trigger, the climate-environmental crisis, through the need to change the energy matrix from fossil fuels to a low-carbon economic model, thus implementing the energy transition.
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