Andrew Green, Metcalf Chair in Environmental Law at U of T’s Faculty of Law, says institutions have an important role to play when it comes to addressing climate change
Andrew Green, Metcalf Chair in Environmental Law at U of T's Faculty of Law, says institutions have an important role to play when it comes to addressing climate change Andrew Green finds reasons for hope when it comes to addressing climate change. In his recent book Picking Up the Slack: Law, Institutions, and Canadian Climate Policy , Green, a professor in the University of Toronto's Faculty of Law, explores how the law and legal institutions are shaping our current response to climate change. The book delves into the complexity of the issue in the Canadian context. For example, Green examines the difficulties caused by the discretion embedded in our environmental laws by the diffusion of responsibility for climate law and policy, as well as the deference of courts and the public to government decisions. He also discusses how courts have an increasing role to play and the potential of deliberative processes and social norms for improving climate policy and altering individual behaviour. "The book is something I wanted others to draw hope from - to be realistic, looking at the problem of climate change and finding ways in which we can move forward," says Green, who holds the faculty's Metcalf Chair in Environmental Law. The book brings together Green's research in areas that include domestic environmental law, Canadian climate change law and policy, and natural resources law. It also draws from economic, political and philosophical literature to develop a framework for Canadian institutions to take action.
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