Climate change is obviously high up on the international agenda at the moment. Attention is firmly focussed on inter-governmental negotiations towards an agreement to replaced the climate change regime under the existing Kyoto Protocol which will expire in 2012. In this regard, two academic conferences on the international law of climate change will take place in the next month to discuss potential future developments in this dynamic field of law. First, the theme of the annual conference of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL) is “Climate Change and its Challenges for the International Legal System”. The Conference…