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The First French Climate Litigation Ruling - Commune de Grande Synthe

Energy and Climate Law

And, in January 2020, a group of NGOs and municipalities filed a lawsuit against the oil major Total to force it to rework its “plan of vigilance” and better integrate climate risks as well as to adopt measures to stay in line with the Paris Climate Agreement target of 1,5°C in temperature increase by end of the century.

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Late 2018 — Bits and Pieces

Smith Enviorment

Also elephants, giraffes, rhinos (of the non-political variety), Cape buffalo, baboons, uninvited monkeys at lunch, hippos, wildebeests, hyenas, warthogs and an unexpected (to me) penguin colony. Back to North Carolina developments in late 2018: Executive Order on Climate Change and Clean Energy: On October 29, 2018, N.C.

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Sounding Green vs Being Green: How to finance sustainability?

HumanNature

Sounding Green” has not only become politically correct, but also a possible finance-generating mechanism. Climate is a global issue and when complex political systems around the world are brought together, solutions cannot be straightforward. Transparent country-specific regulations need to be put in place. ” (2021).

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Guest Post: Climate Litigation in Japan: Citizens’ Attempts for the Coal Phase-Out

Law Columbia

Article 2 (2) of the Act further states that citizens, the State, local authorities, business operators, and other private organizations must cooperate to achieve net zero and the objectives laid down in Article 2 (1) (a) of the Paris Agreement. In September 2018, in Citizens’ Committee on the Kobe Coal-Fired Power Plant v.

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The EU’s challenge with renewable energy expansion: What is the way forward?

Environmental Europe

It has agreed to address climate change under the Paris Agreement , and put forward increasingly ambitious policy targets for 2020, 2030 and 2050. In our new paper , we argue that the EU has turned to “harder soft governance” (HSG) in order to address this problem (see Ringel & Knodt, 2018). Knodt, Michèle (2019).

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Announcing VJEL's 2024 Top 10 Environmental Watch List

Vermont Law

Grid Safety: How Cost-of-Service Ratemaking Creates Tension Between Regulators and Utilities and Slows Grid Hardening By: Michael Murphy and Professor Genevieve Byrne The number of wildfires each year is increasing, which cost billions of dollars in damage and take hundreds of lives. But despite producing enough food to support its 1.3

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A look back at significant decisions in climate litigation in 2022

Law Columbia

European Commission , the City of Paris, the City of Brussels, and the Municipality of Madrid brought an action against the European Commission (EC) challenging a regulation establishing a new procedure for testing the real driving emissions of certain motor vehicles.

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