Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Copyright: World Economic Forum/Jakob Polacsek From January 16-20, 2023, leaders in politics, business, civil society, media, and academia gathered in Davos, Switzerland, for the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting to discuss some of the world’s most pressing issues. The attention on climate migration this year was rightly placed.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 1, 2024

Repeated attempts to pass anti-protest legislation in Minnesota during the resistance to Enbridge’s Line 3 failed, but the pipeline was completed in 2021 and 60% of US oil and gas operations are now shielded by these laws. This is nothing new: these companies have been actively blocking climate policy for decades.

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Legal Planet

MAY 9, 2022

Emissions trading systems are often launched with relatively lenient design features, typically justified as giving the system a chance to “learn-by-doing” and to gain political buy-in for approval of a program. – Continual reform to improve ambition, integrity, and buy-in. Most ETS have fallen on the prices-too-low side.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 26, 2022

Like many other women-led and community-based organizations in Puerto Rico, Taller Salud has taken up the recovery and resilience development in their communities to face the acute climatic, economic, and social crisis that Puerto Rico is facing after the devastation caused by Hurricane María in 2017.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 20, 2023

Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile are all in complex political, social, and economic situations. However, extreme inflation numbers, among other political problems in Argentina, still make it a highly risky place for western companies to make serious investments.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2021

As a government delegate, I have been involved in the UN climate negotiation process since 2017 to uphold Bangladesh’s and the Least Developed Countries (LDC) Group’s position. Student at Berkeley Law. By Finlay McWalter at English Wikipedia. – Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons., CC BY-SA 3.0, [link].

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Legal Planet

JULY 12, 2023

As I outlined here , Montana state law prohibits the consideration of greenhouse gas emissions or climate impacts–– inside and outside the state’s borders––when reviewing projects and approving permits. The admission says a lot about political will. This is not supposed to be a town hall or a popularity contest,” he said.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 1, 2022

Civil law cases. Civil lawsuits were filed in Sendai in 2017 and Kobe in 2018 by citizens against corporations that planned to build new coal-fired power plants. In September 2017, in Sendai Citizens v. Judgments and English summaries are found in the Sabin Center’s Climate Change Litigation Database.). Kobe Steel Ltd.,

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 21, 2022

Thousands of people across Canada have called on political leaders to strengthen Canada’s most important environmental law. CEPA is Canada’s main law for protecting environmental health, and CEPA has not been significantly amended since 1999. Millions of people living in Canada will be negatively affected if they do not. .

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

It is too early to know what specific policies are driving these reductions, but a return to implementing existing laws, supporting conservation efforts, and ensuring better protection and enforcement around Indigenous territories and protected areas all seem to be having a role in the results.

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Washington Nature

OCTOBER 2, 2023

She was born in Napa, California, to a lawyer mother and a judge father, who were thrilled when she followed their footsteps into the law. There, Martha embraced friluftsliv, the country's "right-to-roam" laws and philosophy that allow individuals to explore uncultivated and unfettered land.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 21, 2023

On January 19, DEP released two more bid packages to plug 43 more abandoned conventional natural gas wells in Clarion County at taxpayer expense under the new federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law well plugging program. The conventional industry doesn’t pay a dime. Read more here. 21 [PaEN] -- Susquehanna River Basin Commission Sets Feb.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 23, 2024

Harvard law students ramp up protest against ExxonMobil climate firm Emily Holden | The Guardian | January 15, 2020 Harvard law students have disrupted a recruiting event for Paul Weiss, the law firm representing ExxonMobil in climate lawsuits, in an escalation the protesters hope will open a new front in climate activism in the legal world.

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Frontiers

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The discussion resonated with concerns about academic liberties, especially in light of events like the expulsion of “a Hungarian university,” highlighting the paramount importance of upholding the rule of law. Science thrives when it transcends political influences and financial barriers.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

In its first 100 days in office, the Biden-Harris Administration has already proposed or passed sweeping reforms in federal laws and policies, with many more campaign promises still in process. Ambassador Thomas Shannon, Arnold & Porter, former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (2016–2018). Christopher J.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Harvard law students ramp up protest against ExxonMobil climate firm Emily Holden | The Guardian | January 15, 2020 Harvard law students have disrupted a recruiting event for Paul Weiss, the law firm representing ExxonMobil in climate lawsuits, in an escalation the protesters hope will open a new front in climate activism in the legal world.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 10, 2023

These laws have asserted rights for nature, the right of the community to local self-government, and the right to be free from the dumping of frack waste to protect those rights.” We passed a law that protected Grant Township from this injection well, and have been taken to court repeatedly for doing so.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 2, 2022

On November 22, 2022, sixteen municipalities of Puerto Rico filed a lawsuit in the federal district court in Puerto Rico seeking to hold coal, oil, and gas companies liable for losses resulting from storms during the 2017 hurricane season and ongoing economic losses since that time. In Municipalities of Puerto Rico v.

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Vermont Law

APRIL 7, 2022

The Future is : Gender Inclusion in Climate Crisis Solutions By Beckett McGowan , Juris Doctor Candidate (VLGS '23), Staff Editor for the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law April 7, 2022 Climate Change is the great exasperator. Gaard, Feminism and Env’t Justice , HANDBOOK OF ENV’T JUSTICE (2017). Hill, et al., Anastario, et.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

Lakota People's Law Project | January 13, 2021 We stand arm in arm with our fellow global citizens who abstain from its lengthy list of products. According to AB Chile, a food industry association, more than 1,500 items, or 20 percent of all products sold in Chile, have been reformulated in response to the law.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

Lakota People's Law Project | January 13, 2021 We stand arm in arm with our fellow global citizens who abstain from its lengthy list of products. According to AB Chile, a food industry association, more than 1,500 items, or 20 percent of all products sold in Chile, have been reformulated in response to the law.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Repsol Sued in Class Action for $1 Billion Over Peru’s Worst Oil Spill BNN Bloomberg PaulaR Wed, 01/17/2024 - 14:45 Monday, January 15, 2024 Read more Marcelo Rochabrun (Bloomberg) -- Repsol SA is being sued for $1 billion by an English law firm representing around 35,000 alleged victims for its involvement in Peru’s largest oil spill in 2022.

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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Candidate in the Department of Political Science and Trainee in the CSU InTERFEWS Program In 2014 the Whanganui River in New Zealand was granted legal personhood. And, in 2017 environmental and other groups sued the state of Colorado and asked the court to grant the Colorado river legal personhood with all associated rights.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 17, 2021

For two or three weeks, climate politics gets intense worldwide news coverage. Each of them was adopted at some prior COP, after parties at some still-earlier COP made a political (i.e., The largest decision adopted this year, and the main focus of negotiations and political conflict, was called the “Glasgow Climate Pact.”

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Presumably Dagsvik and Moen are used to this kind of model, but they seem to be inexperienced with the models used for weather and climate, which on the other hand are based on the laws of physics. We know from previous experience that it is likely that such cases will be used uncritically and selectively for political and economic goals.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Brazil , the Institute of Amazonian Studies (IEA) calls upon the Brazilian Federal Government to take appropriate measures to comply with the federal law that instituted the National Policy on Climate Change ( NPCC ) and thus enforce compliance with the Plan to Prevent and Combat Deforestation in the Legal Amazon – PPCDAm. Background.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

In the first few months, he will have to implement a new law on climate change, reform the law governing water use and tackle a mega-drought so severe that it has even cast doubt on the country’s commitment to close its coal-fired power plants.

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Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

By David Jennings, 1L Student, Vermont Law School. wolf hunting in Wyoming resumed in October 2017. The decision to delist the Northern Rocky Mountain wolves presents an important question: was USFWS motivated by sound management strategy or simply anti-wildlife politics? killed earlier in 2017. litigation.

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Vermont Law

JULY 6, 2020

A proposed approach to the problem of animal suffering not adequately addressed under existing law is to extend public health emergency and disaster preparedness and resilience frameworks to farm animal communities drawing on the model crisis standards of care. [2]. 250, 263 (2017). [13]. Vermont Journal of Environmental Law.

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Vermont Law

MARCH 16, 2018

By Dan Wilcox, Senior Notes Editor, Vermont Journal of Environmental Law. Long recognized in both American and English common law, the defense rests on the claim that an otherwise illegal act is legally excusable as necessary to avoid a greater harm. Upcoming cases will provide U.S. The Valve Turners blocked 15% of U.S. Can it work?

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Our Environment

MAY 21, 2021

It is also important to realise that politics and governments have a lot of control on the land they govern. Businesses, financers and governments should be held accountable and laws must be put into place to prevent their constant climate-wrecking activities. 3) Birss Moria (2017) Criminalising environmental activism pages 315-322. (4)

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Legal Planet

APRIL 2, 2024

This year promises to be the ‘Year of Climate’ in international courts and tribunals with opinions slated to be coming down from the European Court of Human Rights, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, and the International Court of Justice.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 14, 2022

At least twice between 2015 and 2017, former environment minister Amina Mohammed visited the wetlands in Yobe to study the situation. While admitting he owned one of the contracted companies, he said he stepped down as its chairman before accepting his political appointment. Though a 2017 senate probe revealed that ?530

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Corp Watch

MARCH 8, 2024

Activists Spill Symbolic Oil at the Louvre to Protest Its Sponsorship Deal Claire Voon | HyperAllergic | March 9, 2017 Protestors dressed in all black staged a dramatic performance at the Louvre last Sunday to pressure the museum to cut its 20-year-long ties with French multinational oil and gas company Total S.A. Total to pay $2.9

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Acoel

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

A small lake in Northern Wisconsin became the battleground for a classic showdown between a small group of cottage owners and a well-healed, politically connected entrepreneur. Before it was all over, local, county, state, and federal laws, an interstate compact, and an international agreement came into play.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Activists Spill Symbolic Oil at the Louvre to Protest Its Sponsorship Deal Claire Voon | HyperAllergic | March 9, 2017 Protestors dressed in all black staged a dramatic performance at the Louvre last Sunday to pressure the museum to cut its 20-year-long ties with French multinational oil and gas company Total S.A. Total to pay $2.9

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

Activists Spill Symbolic Oil at the Louvre to Protest Its Sponsorship Deal Claire Voon | HyperAllergic | March 9, 2017 Protestors dressed in all black staged a dramatic performance at the Louvre last Sunday to pressure the museum to cut its 20-year-long ties with French multinational oil and gas company Total S.A. Total to pay $2.9

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