Situating climate change in (international) law: a triptych of competing narratives

The chapter considers three pairs of competing narratives, which highlight not only many of the underlying tensions within the political negotiations on climate change but also reflect how theoretical enquiries especially in the field of international law have been increasingly framed. These pair of narratives revolve around macro-ideas of the law's normativity, context and scope. Together they enrich an approach to climate change that focuses purely on the traditional multilateral paradigm