International Climate Change Law and Transnational Norms in Global Climate Governance: A Socio-legal Analysis

劳拉的博士研究探讨了联合国气候制度内外对次国家和非国家行为体的日益认可，这对我们理解法律在全球气候治理中的性质和作用意味着什么。 该项目是基于这样的观察，即自2015年《巴黎协定》签署以来，地方和非国家行为体以其自身的权利加入了国家政府，成为塑造全球应对气候变化的关键行为体。因此，城市、企业、投资者和民间社会组织已经从国家授权的气候行动的促进者和实施者演变为全球层面的共同管理者。具体而言，这些行为体现在不再仅仅依赖国家间进程，而是相互自愿结成跨境联盟，以制定规范性框架，要求相关群体就气候变化采取行动。运用定性方法，劳拉的研究的目的是，首先，调查由次国家和非国家行为者制定的规范如何影响相关选民的行为和期望，其次，分析这些规范如何与国际气候变化法相关。在这样做的时候，劳拉的研究旨在增加一个法律的角度来讨论如何实现国家和次国家和非国家行为体在实施巴黎协定之间的最佳伙伴关系。

Laura's doctoral research explores what the growing recognition of sub-national and non-state actors, both within and outside the UN climate regime, means for our understanding of the nature and role of law in global climate governance. The project is premised on the observation that since the lead-up to the 2015 Paris Agreement, sub-national and non-state actors have joined national governments, in their own right, as key actors who shape the global response to climate change. As a result, cities, businesses, investors and civil society organisations have evolved from facilitators and implementers of state-mandated climate action to co-governors at the global level. Specifically, rather than solely relying on inter-state processes, these actors now form voluntary cross-border alliances with each other to generate normative frameworks that require relevant constituencies to act on climate change. Applying qualitative methods, the aim of Laura's research is, first, to investigate how norms which are set by sub-national and non-state actors affect the behaviour and expectations of relevant constituencies, and second, to analyse how these norms relate to international climate change law. In so doing, Laura's research seeks to add a legal perspective to the debate about how to achieve optimal partnerships between states and sub-national and non-state actors in the implementation of the Paris Agreement.