2017 Carbon Dioxide Government Paris Agreement 
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SEPTEMBER 12, 2022
laws governing the cross-border transport of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) for sequestration, and how such transportation fits into broader climate and environmental protection regimes, including the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, carbon markets and emissions trading.
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JUNE 21, 2023
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”). In December 2022, the High Court granted an order compelling the government to make full disclosure.
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Energy and Climate Law
FEBRUARY 28, 2021
By Ceciel Nieuwenhout, Postdoctoral researcher at GCELS and City Council member for GroenLinks On 17 March 2021 the people of the Netherlands will elect a new House of Representatives ( Tweede Kamer) , which also kickstarts the formation process for a new government ( regering). This blog consists of three parts.
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OCTOBER 7, 2019
Colorado Federal Court Remanded Local Governments’ Climate Case to State Court. The court said the defendants’ argument that the plaintiffs’ state law claims were governed by federal common law appeared to be a matter of ordinary preemption, which would not provide a basis for federal jurisdiction. Rhode Island v. Chevron Corp. ,
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MARCH 6, 2018
The court held that federal common law necessarily governed the nuisance claims because “[a] patchwork of fifty different answers to the same fundamental global issue would be unworkable” and “the extent of any judicial relief should be uniform across our nation.” Connecticut ) and Ninth Circuit ( Native Village of Kivalina v.
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MAY 8, 2020
Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in December 2017 and March 2018 because the environmental assessments for the lease sales failed to meet National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) requirements, including by failing to take a hard look at cumulative climate change impacts. s decision not to participate in the Paris Agreement.
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MAY 7, 2021
Other developments in climate change cases brought by local and state governments in the past month include: Fossil fuel companies appealing the District of Hawaii’s remand order in cases brought by the City and County of Honolulu and the County of Maui asked the Ninth Circuit for a 60-day extension of time in which to file their opening brief.
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