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International Environmental Law

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Climate Change Loss and Damage

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The sources of international law arise from a number of origins and comprise both soft law (indicative but non-binding, as in the Hyogo Framework of Action fr resilience building and disaster reduction), and hard law (binding, as in the Montreal Protocol to the Vienna Convention on the Depletion of Ozone Layer).

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    Krishna Rao Pinninti

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Pinninti, K. . (2014). International Environmental Law. In: Climate Change Loss and Damage. SpringerBriefs in Climate Studies. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39564-2_3

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