Smith Enviorment
JANUARY 30, 2019
Executive Order 80 supports the 2015 Paris Agreement and sets several goals for the state to meet by 2025: Reduce state greenhouse gas emissions by 40% from 2005 levels. Reduce energy use per square foot in state-owned buildings by 40% from 2002-2003 levels. Increase the number of zero-emission vehicles in the state to 80,000.
Greenbuilding Law
AUGUST 1, 2021
Businesses cannot ignore or refuse to think about the environmental, social and governance (ESG) space; it is not going away. And since the passage of Sarbanes Oxley in 2002, boards at public companies directly oversee the audit of financial statements which processes must consider and often disclose environmental and other matters.
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Law Columbia
SEPTEMBER 28, 2022
On September 23, 2022, the United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) delivered a landmark decision in Daniel Billy and others v Australia (Torres Strait Islanders Petition) finding that the Australian Government is violating its human rights obligations to the indigenous Torres Strait Islanders through climate change inaction.
Law Columbia
NOVEMBER 7, 2017
The court said its August 2017 decision rejecting challenges under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and Natural Gas Act to DOE’s authorization of LNG exports at another Texas facility largely governed the resolution of the instant cases. The court addressed three narrow issues that remained in one or more of the cases.
Law Columbia
SEPTEMBER 20, 2018
Together, these perspectives identify a number of existing issues that merit attention and, if heeded, might inform negotiations on the future of international environmental governance. . Marisol Anglés Hernández , Researcher, Institute for Legal Research, National Autonomous University of Mexico. Sumudu Atapattu .
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