Legal Planet
MARCH 2, 2022
In his new role as Project Director of the Governors’ Climate and Forests Task Force , Jason will help direct a major sub-national coalition focused on reducing tropical deforestation and advancing inclusive, equitable, low-emissions development at jurisdiction scale.
Legal Planet
JULY 29, 2021
William serves as project lead for the Governors’ Climate and Forests Task Force , a unique subnational collaboration of 38 states and provinces that is working to develop regulatory frameworks to reduce emissions from deforestation and land use. Wang is a leading expert on environmental governance and the law and politics of China.
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Law Columbia
APRIL 22, 2021
In 2008, Ecuador became the first country in the world to formally recognize and implement the Rights of Nature, which Ecuadorians refer to as the Rights of Pachamama (Mother Earth). The court ordered the government to develop and implement action plans to address deforestation. What countries have declared rights of nature?
HumanNature
NOVEMBER 5, 2021
The river, as with its inhabitants, are directly harmed by illegal mining, deforestation, and other extractive and harmful activities. The only way to protect the communities along the river was to grant rights of nature to the river itself.
Vermont Law
NOVEMBER 16, 2015
Ideally this will be done without increasing deforestation and consequently decreasing carbon storage. professor of risk engineering at NYU School of Engineering, compares the “GMO experiment” to the US financial system before the 2008 crash, which many people believed to be “too big to fail.” Mark Spitznagel.
Circle of Blue
OCTOBER 4, 2022
Coal companies routinely walked away from gaping chasms in the land, polluted streams, and deforestation. In recent rounds of reauthorization, Congress reduced the AML fee: the 2006 reauthorization reduced the fee by 10 percent in 2008, and another 10 percent in 2013. Coal production has been in precipitous decline since 2008.
Law Columbia
SEPTEMBER 20, 2018
John Ruggie’s 2008 Framework imposes only a responsibility, not a legal duty, on companies to respect human rights. A duty imposed for more directly attributable pollution under The Pact, such as deforestation or oil spills, may be easier to define and therefore to enforce on corporations. The Global Pact could change this.
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