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The article starts with a brief insight into the history of climate change, with a scope on the international and legal aspects of ever-changing regulations. The regional level is in the article is The European Union, as the only regional economic integration organization under the Kyoto Protocol. It deals with the United Nation’s international agreements like UNFCCC its Kyoto’s Protocol and the Post-Kyoto era. It also analyses the EU’s system in the climate change law with correspondence the international rules. Comparison between international and regional legislation in the climate change is used as a tool of analysis. Finally an insight is given into a special field in the climate change, the build environment, reflecting on the related United Nation’s recommendation and the EU’s regulation.

Climate Change and Regulation in International and Regional Level, Especially the Built Environment

Institute of Civil Engineering, Szent István University, Budapest, Hungary

YBL Journal of Built Environment

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The article starts with a brief insight into the history of climate change, with a scope on the international and legal aspects of ever-changing regulations....

Climate Change and Regulation in International and Regional Level, Especially the Built Environment

Published Online: Jan 28, 2016

Page range: 55 - 67

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jbe-2015-0006

Keywords
Climate change regulation, UNFCC, Kyoto Protocol, Post-Kyoto era, European Union, built environment in climate change

© 2015 Zsuzsanna Putnoki, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Climate Change and Regulation in International and Regional Level, Especially the Built Environment

Published Online: Jan 28, 2016

Page range: 55 - 67

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jbe-2015-0006

KeywordsClimate change regulation, UNFCC, Kyoto Protocol, Post-Kyoto era, European Union, built environment in climate change

© 2015 Zsuzsanna Putnoki, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
Climate change regulation, UNFCC, Kyoto Protocol, Post-Kyoto era, European Union, built environment in climate change