Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

This flexibility and inclusiveness were intentional design features aimed at securing broad international support and fostering a spirit of collective responsibility in addressing the urgent issue of climate change. Meanwhile, in the United States, the recent Held v.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 24, 2023

In our new report, Managing Water Scarcity: A Framework for Fair and Effective Water Right Curtailment in California , we argue that the state needs to act now to strengthen its capacity to fairly and effectively allocate water in times of scarcity. As a result, the SWRCB issued curtailment orders months after they were warranted.

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DECEMBER 14, 2023

The Private Members Bill, if passed, would establish the UK’s first law mandating business due diligence on human rights and the environment. This comes at a time of increasing pressure on companies to engage in human rights and environmental due diligence. By Paul A. Davies , Michael D.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 10, 2024

The three much-awaited judgments issued by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on April 9, 2024 are truly historic and unprecedented. Switzerland , the Grand Chamber established that climate change is “one of the most pressing issues of our times” and poses a threat to human rights.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 9, 2024

In a transformative moment for European and global climate litigation, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled today that the state has a positive duty to adopt, and effectively implement in practice, regulations and measures capable of mitigating the existing and potentially irreversible future effects of climate change.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

The Park Service credits him with establishing “that it was critical to both the parks and private landowners to settle contentious property rights issues, paving a foundation for later land acquisition.” Colonel Young recommended that the government expand the parks and negotiated with neighboring landowners to acquire their property.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 13, 2023

The new wave of litigation also arose from the urgency of combating the rise in deforestation under the right-wing-oriented President Jair Bolsonaro, who left the government in January 2023 for the return of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Lula). Brazil) is also noteworthy.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 24, 2023

Ranging from human rights violations to border disputes, conflicts among nations are often complex and contentious. The impact of an ICJ advisory opinion on climate change could be similarly significant and help shape international law and policy on this critical issue.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 29, 2023

The requests are pending at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS ) and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR, see here for an initial analysis of the advisory opinion request). The ICJ request adds to two requests for advisory opinions on climate change. State of the Netherlands , Neubauer, et al.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 2, 2023

THE GREAT LAKES | ANISHINABEK TERRITORY – Last Friday, the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) recommended that Canada and the United States decommission the Enbridge Line 5 oil pipeline. Human Rights Council for Canada’s upcoming Universal Periodic Review (UPR). million litres of oil.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

It promises to undo the damage to ecology and the climate done by logging and other human activities. A February 2 article shows that such issues are not limited to forest restoration. The most recent article of the three focuses don a specific carbon removal strategy, forest restoration. a truly international team.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 18, 2024

The rise in the global average temperature is therefore, as the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) acknowledged in the KlimaSeniorinnen decision (paras. 22, 319–336) would not have alleviated their harm, despite the “causal relationship between climate change and the enjoyment of Convention rights” (para.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The advancement of science over the past several decades has helped shed light on the truth around the impacts of human activity on the climate and more recently, has allowed us to understand what share of responsibility individual countries and corporations hold. What does justice mean for people and countries harmed by climate deception?

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Legal Planet

JUNE 23, 2022

A number of environmental advocates have been pushing a new strategy for environmental protection – seeking to pursue legal rights for elements of nature (such as rivers , lakes , ecosystems, or species), sometimes in alliance with Native American tribes.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 4, 2024

Next week’s judgments from the European Court of Human Rights in its first climate cases will be another significant factor to shape this field – so watch this space for more analysis to come! Finally, we expect issues related to the Integrity Gap in governments’ net zero targets to gain prominence in future cases.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Supreme Court has held, however, that our Constitution protects people from the government but doesn’t require the government to protect their rights, even the right to life. courts to the global climate system or even, so far as I know, to issues of air pollution. Hostility to implied rights.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 26, 2023

In the complaint, the Plaintiffs argued that they were likely to suffer damage from air pollution and the emissions of greenhouse gases by the coal-fired power plants and those would violate personal rights or the right to a peaceful life of the Plaintiffs. Those two rights were invoked for the first time in this case.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 27, 2023

Member States to submit their views on the legal issues relevant to climate duties and obligations. To help States make these submissions, Columbia Law School’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law has just released its Status Report on Principles of International and Human Rights Law Relevant to Climate Change.

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Corp Watch

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

New company, outdated business model: Siemens Energy fails on climate and human rights Urgewald PaulaR Mon, 02/19/2024 - 18:02 Tuesday, February 9, 2021 Read more Ahead of Siemens Energy’s first annual general meeting, environmental and human rights organizations are seeing the company headed in a critical direction.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

These blooms, regardless of size, contain harmful concentrations of microcystin, a potent liver toxin, and possible human carcinogen (cancer-causing substance) produced by certain kinds of algae. When it comes to these toxic algae blooms, even a “mild” or smaller bloom is bad news. These rules apply to manure as well as chemical fertilizers.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 22, 2022

A landmark decision recognizing the impacts of climate change on human rights. Human Rights Committee (Committee) handed down a landmark decision in Daniel Billy and others v Australia , holding that Australia is violating its human rights obligations to the indigenous Torres Strait Islanders through climate change inaction.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 5, 2023

Human-caused climate change is expected to increase the number and intensity of extreme weather events like hurricanes, floods, and droughts that are already ravaging communities across the United States. The human cost of the Pajaro disaster, including the loss of homes, jobs, and local infrastructure, is truly tragic and may be growing.

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Clean Energy Law

MARCH 18, 2024

The CSDDD would require companies to conduct due diligence to identify and assess environmental and human rights issues across their value chain, and to take steps to prevent and eliminate them.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 8, 2024

Oil companies in the tar sands have been storing their industrial wastewater in huge human-made lakes, which they call the tailings “ponds”. Soon after, the AER issued a public notice about the spill on its website, which also mentioned that separate tailings at the same facility had been leaking toxic waste for at least 9 months.

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Washington Nature

OCTOBER 2, 2023

There, Martha embraced friluftsliv, the country's "right-to-roam" laws and philosophy that allow individuals to explore uncultivated and unfettered land. She is the Chair of the Marine Resources Advisory Council, a board member of the University of Washington Center for Human Rights and the Resources Legacy Fund out of California.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 16, 2023

Previous IPCC reports have concluded that human activities such as burning fossil fuels are the primary cause of climate change: about 70 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions come from burning fossil fuels for electricity, transportation, and industry. Approaching 1.5 degrees C since the preindustrial era.

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Clean Energy Law

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The new rules would oblige companies to integrate their human rights and environmental impact into their management systems. The CSDDD’s key aim is to enhance the protection of the environment and human rights globally. Davies , Michael D.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Guest Commentary: The Role of Human Rights Institutions In Tackling Climate Change: A Case Study of the Philippines. The Commission also held that all businesses are responsible for undertaking due diligence to ensure that they are not violating human rights and providing remediation where abuses occur. Introduction.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

On August 28, 2023, the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) published General Comment No. 26 (GC26) on children’s rights and the environment with a special focus on climate change. The CRC is the most widely ratified human rights treaty, with 196 parties. Background Sacchi et al. Argentina et al.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 6, 2024

You read that right — 3,200 gallons for one phone. Electronic “waste” is full of stuff that can be re-used, but we humans throw away more than 50 million tons of electronic waste every year. The House also held a hearing on this issue on March 25 and expects “Right to Repair” legislation to be introduced there in the near future.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 25, 2021

A: There’s a White House agency called the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) that reviews major regulations at least twice — before the regulation is even proposed and again before the final regulation is issued. (Two That sounds like they’re putting a cash value on a human life. Also, OIRA is pronounced “O-I-Ra.”)

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Integrating human rights into renewable projects will make the energy transition fairer and faster. But the crucial issue of human rights is being left off the agenda, and this is threatening the success of the transition. The issue is particularly relevant for Kenya. The risks of ignoring human rights.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 26, 2023

A straw-man fallacy is a debating tactic where one side distorts the argument of the other by creating a non-issue and then attacking it. This year, many on the far-right are attempting to rebrand Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) investing as “woke capitalism.” The paragraph appeared in a section on risk disclosure.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 22, 2024

“Everybody talks about climate change, and it is difficult for a lot of people to connect with these issues unless they are actually connected with the land. Little things like digging in the ground can help to feel connected and give you agency and ownership over your land and want to take care of it and think about the larger scale issues.”

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 30, 2023

The right to a healthy environment will be recognized for the first time under federal law. We urge the government to deliver on its promise to require mandatory labelling of harmful ingredients, because we all deserve the right to know what toxics are in the products we use every day.”

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 15, 2024

“The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. PA Trout Unlimited Additional Tools-- Click Here to sign up to receive the Weekly Digest directly by email PA Environment Digest Twitter Feed : Update on PA environmental issues.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Shamefully, Canada has framed its support for Line 5 in its most recent amicus brief under the guise of ‘reconciliation and ensuring full protection for the rights of Indigenous Peoples in Canada in the U.S.’ The post Environmental and Human Rights Groups Challenging Canada’s Use of 1977 Pipeline Treaty to Block Recent U.S.

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