TY - CHAP
T1 - Reconceptualising Energy Security from a Legal Perspective in the Context of Climate Change
AU - Paterson, John
PY - 2020/5/15
Y1 - 2020/5/15
N2 - This chapter looks at the ways in which energy security is conceptualised from a legal perspective and considers the extent to which these might either restrict or facilitate innovation in the face of these dynamic and interconnected challenges. It asks whether new orientations of law are required and, if so, what these might look like. Emerging from the recognition of opportunities for unprecedented international collaboration in the immediate aftermath of the Cold War, the Energy Charter Treaty is the most ambitious international legal instrument in the realm of energy security insofar as it attempts to establish market conditions across much of Eurasia in relation to investment, transport and trade, especially in oil and gas. The chapter considers some suggestions to refocus international efforts to change the behaviours of states in the domain of energy security where that concept is complexified by the appreciation of climate change, and looks at alternatives which focus on changing the behaviours of economic actors.
AB - This chapter looks at the ways in which energy security is conceptualised from a legal perspective and considers the extent to which these might either restrict or facilitate innovation in the face of these dynamic and interconnected challenges. It asks whether new orientations of law are required and, if so, what these might look like. Emerging from the recognition of opportunities for unprecedented international collaboration in the immediate aftermath of the Cold War, the Energy Charter Treaty is the most ambitious international legal instrument in the realm of energy security insofar as it attempts to establish market conditions across much of Eurasia in relation to investment, transport and trade, especially in oil and gas. The chapter considers some suggestions to refocus international efforts to change the behaviours of states in the domain of energy security where that concept is complexified by the appreciation of climate change, and looks at alternatives which focus on changing the behaviours of economic actors.
UR - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780429450891-5/reconceptualising-energy-security-legal-perspective-context-climate-change-john-paterson?context=ubx&refId=969fc355-5014-4ec8-8f9e-4903abe4fe08
U2 - 10.4324/9780429450891
DO - 10.4324/9780429450891
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9781138324459
BT - Routledge Handbook of Energy Law
A2 - Hunter, Tina
A2 - Herrera, Ignacio
A2 - Crossley, Penelope
A2 - Alvarez, Gloria
PB - Routledge
ER -