Legal Planet

APRIL 26, 2023

Supreme Court gave state and local governments a big–if preliminary–legal win against the fossil fuel industry. This climate change litigation template was quickly embraced and replicated by state and local governments across the United States, who followed suit by filing their own, similar cases against the fossil fuel industry.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Climate impacts as human rights violations It’s widely accepted that climate change is the cause of human rights violations for millions of people, including their rights to adequate housing, healthy working conditions, safe drinking water, education, and a healthy environment.

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APRIL 13, 2023

The timing of these climate disputes is not accidental. The movement follows a worldwide upsurge in climate change-related cases, which have more than doubled since 2015. There is, therefore, no legally valid option to simply omit to combat climate change,” the ruling said. In Future Generations v. .”

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 19, 2024

Cyclical climatic systems like El Niño are a factor, but the science is clear: Alberta’s climate is changing and water scarcity will be an ongoing issue as a result of climate change, which is primarily driven by the combustion of fossil fuels.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 5, 2023

Human-caused climate change is expected to increase the number and intensity of extreme weather events like hurricanes, floods, and droughts that are already ravaging communities across the United States. But climate change also causes hazards off the field by limiting farmworkers’ income. What can be done?

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APRIL 12, 2024

Supreme Court disagreed with the Bush Administration a year later in its very first climate change case, the landmark Massachusetts v. government and replace it with Trump’s vision” if he is elected to a second presidential term in November. EPA decision.)

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The phrase “ Loss and Damage “ has been bandied about in international climate negotiations since 1991 when Vanuatu, a small island nation in the South Pacific, called for developed countries to assist in shouldering the financial burden arising from climate change impacts.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

In light of Native American Heritage Day last Friday, we should also be thinking about the future of the tribes in the era of climate change. Tribes face serious challenges from climate change, but also some potential opportunities. In terms of climate impacts, many tribes are at high risk. Download as PDF.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

In the first legislative act under his watch, his Republican majority last month passed an appropriations bill that seeks to gut many federal programs meant to fight climate change. It stops the government from factoring in the social cost of greenhouse gases in budgets and environmental reviews. Despite the fact that 99.9

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Legal Planet

JULY 21, 2023

As Gernot Wagner puts it in ‘ Geoengineering: the Gamble ’: “The decision is all about risk-risk tradeoffs” He urges us to put the risks of potentially pursuing solar geoengineering against “the risks of unmitigated climate change.” The National Academy of Sciences adopted a ’risk-risk’ framing in its 2021 report.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 24, 2023

For the first time, the International Court of Justice (ICJ)—the world’s highest court—may be ruling on climate change. On March 29, the UN General Assembly will vote on a resolution to bring climate change before the ICJ.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 3, 2024

The group specifically referenced the inclusion of heritage impacts in the IPCC’s 6 th Assessment Report and the International Meeting on Culture, Heritage and Climate Change co-sponsored by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) and UNESCO, held in December 2021.

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Legal Planet

JULY 19, 2022

Based on press reports, it now seems likely that Biden will soon declare climate change to be a national emergency. Would it unlock important powers that could be used to fight climate change? In 2019, I was worried that using this precedent to fight climate change will require some real soul-searching.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 31, 2022

The US House Oversight and Reform Committee kicked off its investigation of the fossil fuel industry’s decades-long climate change disinformation campaign last fall by inviting top executives from BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil and Shell to testify about their role and subpoenaing their companies for internal documents. Rick Scott.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 10, 2022

In an earlier post, I tried to figure out when the legal academy first discovered climate changes. Those first climate change cases shed light on how new issues get litigated and how courts respond to new science. There were two cases where climate change was a central issue: City of Los Angeles v.

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JUNE 16, 2022

Even so, it compares favorably with the national governments in places like the U.S. Last year, South Korea strengthened its renewable portfolio standard to 25% renewables by 2034 The government hopes to reduce electricity consumption 14% by 2030. The post South Korea and Climate Change appeared first on Legal Planet.

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Clean Energy Law

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Lamb KC and Stephanie Forrest On 7 February 2024, the Supreme Court of New Zealand decided to allow a novel climate change claim to proceed to trial. Background The plaintiff, Mr Smith, is an elder of the Ngāpuhi and Ngāti Kahu tribes and a climate change spokesperson for the Iwi Chairs Forum, a group of New Zealand tribal leaders.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

I feel like climate change is going to have to get worse before it gets better. Climate change has been a big, scary, looming problem for basically the entirety of my life; I cannot remember a time when it was not at least a background concern. This holiday season, I’m especially grateful for their tone of determination.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 6, 2023

Human-caused climate change is redistributing species across the globe, re-ordering ecological communities, and even driving genetic changes in some populations. We need to better understand these changes, and to adapt biodiversity conservation strategies to take them into consideration. Photo: UNESCO/David G.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 9, 2024

In a transformative moment for European and global climate litigation, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled today that the state has a positive duty to adopt, and effectively implement in practice, regulations and measures capable of mitigating the existing and potentially irreversible future effects of climate change.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 4, 2024

Youth4ClimateAction in Republic of Korea We are in a critical decade for action on climate change. National governments are the most important systemic actors in the governance of climate action, primarily because they are the only actors with the ability to adopt economy-wide decarbonization measures.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 23, 2023

That raises a question: Why did the government take such a narrow stance rather than addressing the broader issues presented by the lawsuits? The case before the Supreme Court is one of a number of lawsuits brought in state court by state and local governments against fossil fuel producers, primarily oil companies.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 29, 2023

This article is a summary of the third interview in a three-part interview series that explores how digitalization is reshaping environmental governance. These framings are a consequence of the tools we’ve chosen to use to measure climate change. I spoke with Sake Kruk who’s a Ph.D. Each approach has benefits and risks.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Someone asked me recently what I thought law schools should be teaching about climate change. Naturally, my first reaction is that everyone everywhere needs to put climate change at the top of their agenda. Land use law is another subject that may be transformed by climate change.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 9, 2022

Toronto | Traditional territories of the Huron-Wendat, the Anishnaabeg, Haudenosaunee, Chippewas and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation – The Ontario government solicited expert testimony from a known climate change denier to defend its poor record on climate action, in a court challenge brought from seven Ontario youth.

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Clean Energy Law

JANUARY 18, 2024

Green , and James Bee On 17 January 2024, the government launched the Critical Imports and Supply Chains Strategy (the strategy), which aims to safeguard UK supplies of goods including medicine, minerals, and semiconductors. Davies , Michael D. What Is a Critical Import? Latham & Watkins will continue to monitor developments in this area.

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New Scientist

MARCH 12, 2024

The computers that secure cryptocurrencies like bitcoin consume large amounts of power, pushing up electricity prices and potentially contributing to climate change. Now, the US government wants to tackle the problem

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 6, 2022

Deadly heatwaves, extreme drought, food and water shortages, catastrophic flooding, rapidly intensifying tropical storms, raging wildfires—around the world, climate change is exacerbating extreme conditions and their harsh toll on people and ecosystems. The fearsome toll of climate impacts is already clear, leading U.N.

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Law and Environment

JULY 12, 2021

My concern here is the extent to which we in the United States are making policy intended to address climate change – which is not even a national problem, but a global problem – at a broad range of levels of government. Moreover, all of these moves were based on the exercise of traditional police powers by local governments.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 13, 2022

They emphasize that narrow interpretations of statutes prevent “government by bureaucracy supplanting government by the people.” This mandate was challenged by two groups of state governments. The post Today’s Vaccine Cases: Implications for Climate Change Regulation appeared first on Legal Planet.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 5, 2022

Ontario’s upcoming election will determine whether our province will be part of the climate change solution. The recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report concluded that the world needs to cut greenhouse emissions in half by the end of this decade to avoid total climate breakdown.

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Greenbuilding Law

JUNE 18, 2023

A first ever trial on constitutional protections from climate change is underway in Montana. and the third branch of government, the courts, are the new frontier for driving global warming policy for the nation. State of Montana , against their state government. Supreme decisions?),

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AUGUST 15, 2022

We are in the thick of “ danger season ” (aka summer), that time of year when climate-related disasters such as droughts, heat waves, wildfires, floods and hurricanes are more likely to happen. Not only that, but climate change has made many of these disasters more severe and more likely to occur.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 10, 2024

Switzerland , the Grand Chamber established that climate change is “one of the most pressing issues of our times” and poses a threat to human rights. Notably, the Court responded to (and preempted) criticism as to the undemocratic role of courts in relation to climate change (paras. 410-414 and 449-451).

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Real Climate

APRIL 6, 2023

The summary for policymakers of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) sixth synthesis report was released on March 20th (available online as a PDF ). There is a recording of the IPCC Press Conference – Climate Change 2023: Synthesis Report for those who are interested in watching an awkward release of the report.

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APRIL 4, 2023

Following meetings between President Biden and Prime Minister Trudeau, Canada’s government pledges increased spending on the Great Lakes. Jurisdiction of the Kanienʼkehá꞉ka (Mohawk) territory of Akwesasne is shared three ways — a council elected by the Canadian government, a council elected by the U.S. Find all the work here.

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MARCH 27, 2024

That seems to be the Florida playbook for dealing with the climate crisis facing Floridians in the form of rising sea levels and deadly temperatures. The only thing worse than a wet heat is being governed by climate change deniers in a wet heat. If signed by Gov. Senate Bill 1624 , by Sen.

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