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Outline • Introduction • The Push towards Renewable Energy -Energy Security -Climate Change and other environmental concerns • International Regimes Relevant to Renewable Energy -Soft Laws -Treaties • Post-2012 Climate Change Negotiations • Statute of International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) • The Emergence of a Treaty on Renewable Energy • Conclusion Introduction • Renewable energy has the potential of contributing to energy security and climate change mitigation. • International environmental law instruments give credence to the promotion of Renewable Energy for climate change mitigation. • Existing international law instruments relevant to renewable energy are inadequate. • A need for a multilateral treaty on the promotion of renewable energy is important. Push Towards Renewable Energy • Energy Security • Climate change and other environmental concerns Soft Laws •Clearly articulated in Soft laws are steps to promote renewable energy: -Rio Declaration -Agenda 21 -Johannesburg Plan of Implementation -The Group of Eight (G8) Gleneagles 2005 Plan of Action -Beijing Declaration on Renewable Energy for Sustainable Development. •The documents call for measures promoting renewable energy and transfer of environmentally sound technologies. •Soft laws are not binding in international law. Treaties • United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) 1982 -Recognition of the sovereign rights of nation states to the economic exploitation and exploration of natural resources within their exclusive territorial and economic zones. -The rights include the production of energy from renewable energy sources wind and ocean; and the right to construct turbines, subject to the obligation to respect the rights of other states and the safe removal of installations when abandoned. - A need for a caveat in decommissioning in relation to renewable energy technology installations.
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