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Historic and Unprecedented: The ECtHR Upholds Positive Human Rights Obligations to Mitigate Climate Change

Law Columbia

With this ruling, the Court confirmed that States have a positive obligation to adopt measures to mitigate climate change under Article 8 of the ECHR, the right to family and private life. The Court also found a violation of Article 6 ECHR, the right of access to court. The Court declared the two other cases, Carême v.

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Will Russia “Win” the Climate Crisis?

Legal Planet

The conventional view is spelled out in a NY Times Magazine article. The article’s theme is in its title: “How Russia Wins the Climate Crisis.” The population seems likely to decline over the next fifteen years and beyond. That’s likely to be true in some ways, but warming may be a mixed blessing.

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PA AML Campaign: Urge Sen. Toomey To Support Abandoned Mine Remediation STREAM Act

PA Environment Daily

Missing from the legislation is the ability to retain some of those funds for the operation, maintenance, and rehabilitation of AMD treatment systems beyond the 15 year period covered by the BIL. Through the federal BIL funding, Pennsylvania will receive approximately $250 million annually for the next fifteen years.

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Guest Contributor Kate Mackintosh: 200 Words to Save the Planet—The Crime of Ecocide

Legal Planet

The ICC can already prosecute widespread, long-term and severe damage to the environment as a war crime under article 8(2)(b)(iv) of its Statute , under certain circumstances, in international armed conflict. The post Guest Contributor Kate Mackintosh: 200 Words to Save the Planet—The Crime of Ecocide appeared first on Legal Planet.

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Scientists unveil plan to create biocomputers powered by human brain cells 

Frontiers

. “This new field of biocomputing promises unprecedented advances in computing speed, processing power, data efficiency, and storage capabilities – all with lower energy needs,” say the authors in an article published in Frontiers in Science. Read original article What would organoid intelligence bio computers look like?

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KlimaSeniorinnen and the Choice Between Imperfect Options

Law Columbia

In this previous environmental case law, there was, in other words, a direct link “between a source of harm and those affected by the harm”, and the measures necessary to alleviate the harm were “identifiable and available to be applied at the source of the harm” (para. 544; see also para. 535, 624, 625).

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What happened at COP26 in Glasgow?

Enviromental Defense

Finally F-words: fossil fuels. The words “fossil fuels” appeared for the first time in a COP decision. Even though the commitment is weak, with weasel words added in and with no reference to oil and gas, it is historic. . Canada hasn’t even confirmed whether it would use Article 6 to reach its 2030 Paris commitment.