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Understanding Unsuccessful Climate Litigation: The Spanish Greenpeace Case

Law Columbia

However, the Supreme Court found that the Spanish Government had complied with the Paris Agreement and the EU legislation. Background of Spanish Climate Policy In 2016, the EU ratified the Paris Agreement, which calls on Parties to submit their National Determined Contributions (NDCs) every five years. compared to 2005.

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Real-time space observations can now keep watch over ‘super emitter’ power plants

Frontiers

Under the Paris Agreement, countries will need to track greenhouse gas emissions at the level of individual ‘super emitters’, such as power plants, in close-to-real time. Countries signed up to the 2015 Paris Agreement have committed themselves to keep the rise in average global temperature ‘well below’ 2 °C.

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COPs as Three-Ring Circus

Legal Planet

This official inner circle is now doing the business of the three separate international treaties in force for climate change: the 1992 Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC), the 1992 Kyoto Protocol (Yes, it still exists and is in force, although the United States is not a party), and the 2015 Paris Agreement.

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European banks continue to fund fossil fuels?

A Greener Life

Even though this represented a fall from the $106 billion lent in 2020 and the $83 billion lent in 2019, it is still above the $49 billion and $50 billion figures of 2018 and 2017 respectively and represents a huge investment in an industry that should be radically shrinking and not growing if we are to have any hope of staying below the 1.5

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July 2017 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

Six environmental groups launched the proceeding challenging the stay after EPA published notice of the stay in the June 5, 2017 issue of the Federal Register. filed June 5, 2017; emergency motion for stay granted July 3, 2017). June 29, 2017). June 28, 2017). June 28, 2017). filed June 9, 2017).

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Why Climate Litigation in South Africa Matters

Law Columbia

The first wave of climate cases In early 2017, the High Court in Pretoria handed down a judgment in the country’s first climate case: Earthlife Africa Johannesburg v Minister of Environmental Affairs (also known as the “Thabametsi judgment”). The climate litigation that finally reached the courts in the mid-2010s was many years in the making.

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No 3rd Runway at Vienna Airport Because Adverse Climate Impacts Outweigh Short-term Economic Benefits: Austrian Court (Updated)

Law Columbia

Updated on June 29, 2017). And Austria has articulated its climate change mitigation commitments both by ratifying the Paris Agreement and through its Climate Protection Law, which provides for a schedule of emissions reductions from 2015–2020 and beyond. by Justin Gundlach.