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Abstract: Ten years after the Paris Agreement’s adoption, this article takes stock of international climate change law through the lens put forward in The Art and Craft of International Environmental Law. The article first outlines the distinctive features of the approach to international environmental law in Art and Craft and how the Paris Agreement exemplifies them. Next, the article examines several key developments in international environmental law since the original publication of Art and Craft in 2010—namely, the changing role of non-state actors, a turn to (international) courts, and the growing complexity of the legal architecture—and discusses how these changes are reflected in international climate change law. To the extent these developments become embedded in international climate change law, they reflect a shift from the state- and treaty-centric paradigm described in the first edition of Art and Craft to a new, more polycentric form of governance.
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