#UNELaw’s Associate Professor Ottavio Quirico has had a paper published in the Fordham International Law Journal. It’s titled: ‘Towards a peremptory duty to curb greenhouse gas emissions?’

Ottavio assesses the nature of the obligation to achieve sustainable anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations in the earth’s atmosphere. This obligation is found in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and related regulatory instruments. He argues that the obligation to curb greenhouse gas emissions might be emerging as a peremptory duty in international law, helping to develop a compelling universal framework to address global warming. In this article, Ottavio also discusses the importance of extending the obligation beyond sovereign states to include non-State natural and legal persons and triggering universal jurisdiction.