1 Introduction. Climate and the Law 1.1 From the initial lack of trust to the acknowledgement of the Anthropocene
1.2 Interdisciplinary forewords to climate change law
1.3 Cautiously moving forward: what we should expect from the next chapters
2 The International Framework, Policies, and the Law. Towards National Legal Domains for Climate Issues
2.1 Introduction. The epistemological complexity of climate/environmental
principles and rules
2.2 Transnational concerns and developments of international law addressing environmental and climate issues
2.3 The main legacy to climate change law from international environmental
law. An outline
2.4 Monologues for the Paris Agreement's dialogues: the Nationally
Determined Contribution system
2.5 Basic prospects of future actions through NDCs
2.6 Are domestic legal systems adaptive? 2.7 Between climate and the environment. The "aurora" of a legal
consciousness and the shift from preservation and restoration to resilience
and adaptation
3 The Ongoing Foundation of the Constitutionalisation of Climate
3.1 Introduction. Comparative public and constitutional law
3.2 Climate-related values and principles within a domestic legal system
3.3 Constitutionalism
3.4 Constitutionalism(s)
3.4.1 Transformative constitutionalism
3.4.2 Nuevo constitucionalismo latinoamericano
3.4.3 Global constitutionalism
3.4.4 Environmental constitutionalism
3.5 Constitution matters: "climate provisions"
4 Applied Climate Justice and Functional Climate Litigation: Overlapping Circles
4.1 Introduction. Towards distributive justice
4.2 Beyond distributive justice
4.3 Current trends in climate litigation
4.3.1 Friends of the Irish Environment v. The Government of Ireland et al.
4.3.2 Notre affaire à tout and Others v. France
4.3.3 DG Khan Cement Company v. Government of Punjab
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