University of Miami Law School Institutional Repository University of Miami Inter-American Law Review 1-1-2010 Panama and the Specter of Climate Change Ruth Gordon Follow this and additional works at: http://repository.law.miami.edu/umialr Part of the Comparative and Foreign Law Commons, and the International Law Commons Recommended Citation Ruth Gordon, Panama and the Specter of Climate Change, 41 U. Miami Inter-Am. L. Rev. 129 (2014) Available at: http://repository.law.miami.edu/umialr/vol41/iss2/2 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by Institutional Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in University of Miami Inter- American Law Review by an authorized administrator of Institutional Repository. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. 129 ARTICLES Panama and the Specter of Climate Change By Ruth Gordon* 1. INTRODUCTION ......................................... 130 11. CLIMATE CHANGE: CAUSES & EFFECTS ................. 136 A. Causes...................................... 136 B. Effects: Current and Predicted................. 139 1. The Damage Thus Far .................... 139 2. Potential Future Consequences ............. 141 3. The Vicinity: Climate Change in Central America ................................. 146 III. THE INTERNATIONAL LEGAL RESPONSE ................. 148 A. Denial, Tepidity, Refusal, Entreaties ............ 148 B. The InternationalLegal Response.............. 151 C. The Clean Development Mechanism ............. 154 IV. EXPLORING PANAMA ...................................