The International Energy Architecture and Energy Transition

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🔬研究者:国際エネルギー法と気候政策の交錯に関する理論的枠組みを提供。

🏛政策担当者:国際的なエネルギー法制度の動向を踏まえた政策設計に参考になる。

Chapter 5 is written by Volker Roeben and is titled “The International Energy Architecture and Energy Transition.” The author starts by highlighting the energy need, generally, and then underscoring the current transition from coal and oil to new kinds of energy, in particular. In this analysis, the author highlights the crux of the matter, namely, the climate protection policies in shaping the next generation energy architecture. This started with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (primarily Goal 7) and the UN Climate Change Framework (predominantly the Paris Agreement), but has received an elevation following the ICJ&s;s Climate Change Advisory Opinion from 2025. This chapter expertly navigates the climate protection policies as they intersect with more traditional energy architecture; that is, customary rules, the Energy Charter Treaty, the WTO, and international investment law. In order to better understand the landscape around energy law, the author outlines the policy work of key institutional actors – such as the International Energy Agency, the International Renewable Energy Agency, the International Atomic Agency, the Energy Charter Conference, the WTO, and so on. The chapter also illustrates the role played by ‘non-State actors’ as interlocutors of the architectural framework. Finally, even though focused on the framework of international energy system design, the author explains that the ‘energy-related law of dispute resolution and settlement also is part of this system, and hence it absorbs this impetus’.

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