International Liability Regime for Biodiversity Damage

1. Introduction, Akiho Shibata Part 1: The Context and Negotiation 2. A New Dimension in International Environmental Liability Regimes:A Prelude to the Supplementary Protocol, Akiho Shibata 3. Negotiating the Supplementary Protocol: The Co-Chair's Perspective, Rene Lefeber and Jimena Nieto Carrasco Part 2: The Significance and Critiques 4. The Legal Significance of the Supplementary Protocol: The Result of a Paradigm Revolution, Rene Lefeber 5. Administrative Approach to Liability: Its Origin, Negotiation and Outcome, Alejandro Lago Candeira 6. A Scientific Perspective on the Supplementary Protocol, Reynaldo Ariel Alvarez-Morales 7. Civil Liability in the Supplementary Protocol, Gurdial Singh Nuar 8. One Legally-Binding Provision on Civil Liability: Why Was It So Important from the African Negotiators' Perspective 9. Trade and the Supplementary Protocol: How to Achieve Mutual Supportiveness, Rodrigo C. A. Lima 10. The Supplementary Protocol: A Treaty Subject to Domestic Law?, Worku Damena Yifru and Kathryn Garforth Part 3: The Implementation 11. Challenges and Opportunities in the Implementation of the Supplementary Protocol: Reinterpretation and Re-imagination, Dire Tladi 12. The Supplementary Protocol and the EU Environmental Liability Directive: Similarities and Differences, Edward Brans and Dorith Dongelmans 13. A Japanese Approach to the Domestic Implementation of the Supplementary Protocol, Eriko Futami and Tadashi Ohtsuka 14. The Industry's Compact and Its Implication for the Supplementary Protocol, J. Thomas Carrato, John Barkett and Phil Goldberg 15. Conclusion: Beyond the Supplementary Protocol, Akiho Shibata