[Journal Article] From Empire to Equity: Why the International Maritime Organisation Struggles to Internalise Climate Differentiation? by Yang Huiwen

APCEL Research Associate Yang Huiwen’s article, ‘From Empire to Equity: Why the International Mariime Organisation Struggles to Internalise Climate Differentiation?’ published in the Chinese Journal of Transnational Law is now available online.

The article critically examines why the International Maritime Organization (IMO) has persistently resisted operationalising the climate-law principle of common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities (CBDR-RC) in regulating greenhouse gas emissions from international shipping. Existing scholarship often explains this impasse as a matter of political disagreement or doctrinal incompatibility between maritime and climate law.

This article argues instead that the resistance is deeper and institutional, rooted in the IMO’s historical ‘institutional DNA’.

The article is available at https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2753412X261453965 (subscription required).

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• Yang Huiwen, Research Associate at APCEL NUS Law