General Information

• What is the main objective of the Climate Change Act (CCA)?

• Why the law is needed?

• What are the carbon budgets?

• Where are the CCAs already adopted?

• About the British Climate Change Act

• About Scottish Climate Change Act

Content of the Climate Change Act (CCA)

• What are the core parts of the CCA?

• Supplementary provisions of the CCA

• Supplementary provisions of the CCA - Adaptation to the impacts of climate change

• Supplementary provisions of the CCA - Energy efficiency and use of renewable energy sources

• Supplementary provisions of the CCA - Waste management

The enforcement of the CCA's target

• Soft law or the hard law enforcement measures?

• Control system of implementation of the Climate Change Act

• Control system in the British Act

• Measures of Public Participation under the Provisions of the Aarhus Convention

• Budgetary responsibility

CCA and European Union Law

• General background of EU environmental law as set by the Lisbon treaty

• CCA's compliance with EU law

• CCA and Emission trade system (ETS)

• ETS Directive

• EU competition rules in relation to CCA

CCA and International Law

• Is the basic idea of the considered national Climate change act in accordance with the international law?

• Compliance of the basic idea of the CCA with the international law

• The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, 1992 (UNFCCC)

• Supportive provisions of the UNFCCC (and its related documents) in relation to Climate Change Act