Government Law Paris Agreement Regulations 
Union of Concerned Scientists
JANUARY 10, 2024
Our study, which examined net-zero legislation and litigation in Brazil, China, Germany, and the United States, will become even more pertinent as nations grapple with implementing their commitments under the Paris Agreement from 2015 and the more recent consensus reached in Dubai.
Legal Planet
MAY 13, 2024
Trump recently told Big Oil executives over dinner that they should give him $1 billion in campaign donations because he planned to immediately reverse climate regulations, the New York Times and Washington Post both reported. It includes only completed actions, not proposed regulations. International January 20, 2021.
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Legal Planet
MAY 13, 2024
We know that Trump would exit the Paris Agreement (again). He would also roll back all of Biden’s climate regulations. That would leave federal climate regulation in the same place it was in 2007. The short term damage would be bad enough. We know he would stop enforcing environmental requirements.
Legal Planet
JANUARY 12, 2023
EPA’s power to regulate greenhouse gases, established in litigation in 2007, now seems beyond question. remains a party to the UNFCCC , helped broker the Paris Agreement, and is till a party to that agreement today. Perhaps most importantly, the federal government has invested billions of dollars in clean energy.
Legal Planet
FEBRUARY 19, 2024
The Kyoto Protocol may have led to emission reductions in Europe, but there was never any real prospect that the Senate would ever ratify the agreement. On the domestic front, the head of EPA managed to maneuver the Administration into endorsing federal authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act.
Law Columbia
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
In this case, environmental and human rights organizations, including Greenpeace and Oxfam (“the plaintiffs”), had taken legal action against the Government of Spain, alleging inadequate action on climate change. However, the Supreme Court found that the Spanish Government had complied with the Paris Agreement and the EU legislation.
Law Columbia
MAY 8, 2024
Lawyers, bar associations, and law societies have an important but not fully recognized role to play in achieving the net zero goal in the Paris Agreement. Climate Change as an Increasingly Common Feature of Law Practice Climate change is no longer an issue of concern only to environmental and energy lawyers.
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