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Guest Commentary: An Unexpected Success for Czech Climate Litigation

Law Columbia

The applicants asked the court to order the defendants to take necessary and proportionate measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to adapt to climate change within six months. ministries in this case) and not the general public, is a result of governmental political decision, not an exercise of public administration.

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Guest commentary: A ground-breaking judgment in Germany

Law Columbia

On April 29, 2021 the German Constitutional Court (the Bundesverfassungsgericht, or GCC) rendered a ground-breaking judgment, requiring the German government to establish specific plans to achieve its mid-century greenhouse gas emissions goal. (An In 2020 the German population amounted to 1.1% A swift political reaction.

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Nuclear Plant Closures And Renewables Increase Electricity Prices & Unreliability, Testifies Michael Shellenberger to U.S. Senate

Environmental Progress

The answer is that there was a lot more generating capacity in 2006 than in 2020. 13] California regulators in 2020 over-estimated the contribution they could reasonably expect from renewables. In 2020, California generated 39 percent of its in-state electricity from them. [15] In 2020, California’s electricity prices rose 7.5

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February 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

The majority said it “reluctantly” concluded that “the plaintiffs’ case must be made to the political branches or to the electorate at large” and “[t]hat the other branches may have abdicated their responsibility to remediate the problem does not confer on Article III courts, no matter how well-intentioned, the ability to step into their shoes.”

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