Alexander Zahar is Professor of Law at the Research Institute of Environmental Law, Wuhan University, China. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Climate Law (Brill).

Since around 2010 significant quantities of international climate-change finance have begun to reach developing countries. This transfer of finance -the legal and ethical obligations that underpin it, the constraints on its use, its intended outcomes, and its successes, failures, and future potential-is poorly understood. This book seeks to fill this gap in the legal scholarship. Through case studies of international finance mechanisms and a multitude of other sources, the text delivers a rich legal and empirical understanding of the implementation of states' climate-finance obligations to date.

Introduction

1. Climate finance: Concepts and institutions
2. Climate finance in legal scholarship
3. Legal obligations of states relating to climate finance
4. State performance of obligations on climate finance
5. The philosophy of the control of nature