Breezometer

JUNE 7, 2022

We’re already experiencing the impact of climate change across the world; now an update from the IPCC suggests weather extremes could become the norm in the near future. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the United Nations body for assessing the science related to climate change.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The last few days saw two major developments in international rights-based climate litigation, with the adoption of a new resolution by the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) and a long-awaited decision on a climate case by the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC). Recent Developments on rights-based climate litigation.

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Manning Law

JUNE 8, 2020

From beach clean-ups to mass tree-planting to marches, individuals, communities and governments have come out to stand shoulder-to-shoulder for our planet. Meanwhile, the climate emergency has not gone away. Governments have already invested trillions of dollars to stabilize our economies and protect the most vulnerable.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Environmental law, or sometimes known as environmental and natural resources law, is a term used to explain regulations, statutes, local, national and international legislation, and treaties designed to protect the environment from damage and to explain the legal consequences of such damage towards governments or private entities or individuals (1).

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Legal Planet

JULY 5, 2023

We give lots of lip service describing climate change as an emergency or existential threat. According to the Climate Emergency Declaration Organization, 2336 jurisdictions around the world have declared it to be an emergency. But climate change is different. There are many possible emergency actions.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 16, 2021

Over the last year Brazil has seen numerous innovative climate litigation claims filed that have questioned the country’s climate policies and general effects of activities on climate change. (I The Amazon rainforest, the country’s not-so-secret weapon to mitigate climate change, features prominently in the litigation.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

After an extra year’s delay and a summer of climate change-induced disasters , the 26 th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP26) entered its second week on Monday. More than 100 countries p ledged to end and reverse deforestation by 2030. by Korey Silverman-Roati.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Edited by Michael Burger (Sabin Center for Climate Change Law), Teresa Parejo (UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network) and Lisa Sachs (Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment). The Global Pact could change this. But liability for climate-induced damage is complex, due to issues of attribution and causation.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2018

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 # 107. and non-U.S. ExxonMobil Corp.

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HumanNature

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Candidate in the Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability and the Graduate Degree Program in Ecology at Colorado State University As negotiations stalemated in previous years, activists (and youth) protest for climate action (Source: Sarah Whipple, 2018). Former President Trump left the Paris Agreement on behalf of the U.S.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 4, 2022

As we are in the early days of 2022, I could again write that 2021 was the year climate change went mainstream. We don’t have to go very far back to find when the issue was a niche, and it is only going to become more mainstream as the urgency of tackling the climate crisis continues to materialise. By Anders Lorenzen.

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Law Columbia

JULY 2, 2021

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 # 147. By Margaret Barry and Korey Silverman-Roati.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Perhaps less excitingly, but more consequentially, Brazil also has a long tradition of progressive environmental policies and climate governance, playing a key role in several international conferences. After all, to achieve the main goal of the Paris Agreement , namely keeping the rising global average temperature below 2°C (35.6°F)

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

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 #130: FEATURED CASE. and non-U.S.

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