Table of Contents
1. Renewable Energy Law: An Introduction
2. International Climate Change Law and Renewable Energy
3. Sustainable Development and Renewable Energy
4. Enabling Renewable Energy Growth: The Role of Targets
5. Securing Investment in Renewable Energy: The Role of Subsidies
6. Transmitting Electricity
7. Planning, Licensing, and Public Opposition
8. Offshore Renewables
9. Decarbonising Road Transport
This is the first textbook to provide a clear understanding of law's role in promoting the global growth of renewable energy production and consumption.
The book introduces readers to the main legal frameworks shaping the rise of renewables at international, regional and national levels, including those which set targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and increasing renewable energy consumption.
Clear explanations of challenges commonly confronting renewable developments and the legal responses to them aid readers' understanding whatever their background. The author, a leading researcher in energy and environmental law, has drawn on 10 years' experience of developing and teaching research-led courses on renewable energy law to produce an authoritative but accessible work.
