“Adaptive” legal systems for the adaptation to climate change? Legal pathways between environmental and climate change law

The focus on climate issues fostered a shift from a legal approach mainly based on the protection of the environment towards a different understanding of law, in which the legal system primarily is a further subject that has to adapt to the contingencies. In doing so, resilience and responsiveness become two crucial principles even for the legal debate, with the aim of providing suitable legal methodologies and/or tools to cope with anthropogenic climate change. From this perspective, this essay aims to nurture a critical approach to legal paradigms between environmental law and climate change law.