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Climate Litigation and Children’s Rights: Unpacking the CRC’s New General Comment

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26 (GC26) on children’s rights and the environment with a special focus on climate change. Still, the decision holds significant implications for safeguarding children’s rights within the climate change context and set a foundation for future climate-related cases centered on children.

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Countries failed to agree first steps on solar geoengineering at the UN. What went wrong?

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Some of the states most vulnerable to climate change – including Fiji, Vanuatu and Pakistan – broadly supported the African position, and emphasized deep concerns about SRM. So did those concerned about unauthorised experimentation, notably Mexico – who saw the ‘Make Sunsets’ balloon launches as a ‘violation of sovereignty’.

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October 2019 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. HERE ARE THE ADDITIONS TO THE CLIMATE CASE CHART SINCE UPDATE # 126. and non-U.S. Supreme Court. 17-1258 (D.C.

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