Law Columbia

JUNE 26, 2023

Coal-Fired power plants targeted at the case, taken by Attorney Shunsuke Sugit In March 2023, two important decisions regarding the operation of newly built coal-fired power plants were handed down by courts in Japan. Citizens’ Committee on the Kobe Coal-Fired Power Plant v.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 1, 2022

Japan , their case challenging the legality of a governmental approval that allows for the construction and operation of new coal-fired power plants. This will be the first climate change case heard before the Supreme Court. Japan’s climate change context. Civil law cases.

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Edouard Stenger

MAY 16, 2017

These days the United States’ federal government is promoting coal and backtracking on climate ambition and the European Union is no longer cutting its greenhouse gases emissions. So, who is leading the fight against climate change ? India has stated that its planned coal-fired power plants may not be needed.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 18, 2021

To achieve the same in 2013, Russia needed oil to be at US$115. Russia has been slow to move on climate action , as it is a hydrocarbon superpower and oil and gas play a significant role in the economy. It also argues that the share of renewable energy in its total energy mix is over 25% because of hydro and nuclear power.

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