Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 10, 2024

Our study, which examined net-zero legislation and litigation in Brazil, China, Germany, and the United States, will become even more pertinent as nations grapple with implementing their commitments under the Paris Agreement from 2015 and the more recent consensus reached in Dubai.

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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

MARCH 29, 2023

Photo by Mathias Reding on Unsplash Climate change litigation has finally reached the world’s highest court. On March 29, 2023, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopted a resolution requesting an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the obligations of States with respect to climate change.

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Legal Planet

MAY 13, 2024

In his four years in office, Donald Trump rolled back essentially every existing federal policy to limit climate change. The earliest action covered is Biden’s rejoining the Paris Agreement; the most recent is a burst of final actions taken around Earth Day 2024. International January 20, 2021. April 4, 2024.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

This important gathering, known as COP28 (which stands for the ‘Conference of the Parties’), is the 28th annual United Nations climate negotiations since the establishment of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in 1995. Ahead of this important moment, here are the key things you need to know. Catchy, right?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Climate change, one of the defining challenges of our time, demands multifaceted approaches to drive action and accountability. Two central players in this arena are climate litigators and United Nations (UN) climate negotiators.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The hypocrisy of the world’s biggest banks on climate change keeps mounting. The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warns that all scenarios to meet the Paris Agreement ’s targets for holding planetary temperatures under 1.5 It was another corporate spit in the face of science.

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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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Legal Planet

APRIL 2, 2024

The temporal and substantive proximity of these cases, across no less than four different international forums, is a reflection of the immense frustration that civil society and State actors who are the most vulnerable to the harms resulting from climate change feel with the status quo.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 12, 2023

Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). climate policy. remains a party to the UNFCCC , helped broker the Paris Agreement, and is till a party to that agreement today. Perhaps most importantly, the federal government has invested billions of dollars in clean energy. 2020 U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Plans countries have submitted under the Paris Agreement would lead to an increase in overall emissions by 2030 and that trend desperately needs to be reversed. Corporate high emitters When a methane super-emitter is identified, the company or government who owns that site needs to take action. Science shows that keeping the 1.5

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 20, 2022

At COP27 this November in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, a call to action to shift all capital for climate came into the spotlight. C) of the Paris Agreement has significant implications for how the global financial system works and will be a centrepiece of the coming years. C) to make “finance flows consistent” with climate action.

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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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Law Columbia

MAY 8, 2024

Lawyers, bar associations, and law societies have an important but not fully recognized role to play in achieving the net zero goal in the Paris Agreement. Climate Change as an Increasingly Common Feature of Law Practice Climate change is no longer an issue of concern only to environmental and energy lawyers.

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 5, 2023

Governments are, it seems, beginning to listen to the growing chorus of scientists who have warned that deploying CDR is essential to avoid catastrophic climate change. Government funding for research and deployment of CDR is increasing. Yet, key issues around definitions, guidance, and climate governance remain.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The biggest success of the United Nations climate convening (COP27) in Sharm El-Sheik, Egypt, last year was the creation of the Loss and Damage Fund, intended to provide resources to climate-vulnerable, low-income countries to help them cope with the extreme impacts of climate change.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 4, 2024

In part one of this series we introduced you to the huge role that the Canadian financial sector plays in exacerbating the climate crisis. Climate change could have some very significant negative impacts on the Canadian economy, and therefore your money. In this blog, we’ll discuss how climate change poses a risk to finance.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Together, the story they tell is of a world that seems hell-bent on heedlessly careening toward climate disaster, even as the necessary and beneficial solutions are within our reach. These crucial goals can help accelerate the world’s transition to clean energy and turn down fossil fuels that are driving climate change.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

In this case, environmental and human rights organizations, including Greenpeace and Oxfam (“the plaintiffs”), had taken legal action against the Government of Spain, alleging inadequate action on climate change. the contributions are intra-EU by each member state, but the EU acts as one party before the Paris Agreement).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The 28th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP28) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UN FCCC) is set to begin in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, next week. One of the most crucial indicators of success will be whether the nations of the world reach agreement on a fast and fair phaseout of fossil fuels.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

On June 15, 2022, the Municipal Court of Prague sided with a Czech climate NGO in Klimatická žaloba ČR v. Czech Republic , ordering the Czech government to create a more ambitious emissions reduction plan based on its obligations under the Paris Agreement ( Press Release of Czech Climate Litigation ).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

On September 20, the UN Secretary-General António Guterres is hosting a Climate Ambition Summit seeking to galvanize greater climate action from world leaders. Coming on the heels of the powerful ‘ March to End Fossil Fuels’ last weekend, this summit continues the pressure on governments to meet the urgency of the moment.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 12, 2022

With great fanfare, the company launched its Sky Scenario, a “technically possible, but challenging pathway for society to achieve the goals of the Paris agreement.” Scientists have responded by launching a petition calling on the publisher to better align its business practices with its public commitments to address climate change.

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Legal Planet

MAY 13, 2024

We know that Trump would exit the Paris Agreement (again). He would also roll back all of Biden’s climate regulations. They call for packing government agencies like EPA with MAGA-friendly appointments and firing 50,000 of the most experienced and expert civil servants. The short term damage would be bad enough.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Likewise, the country has started to implement programs to mitigate GHG emissions and to promote REDD+ projects , all intending to achieve climate-related goals. Colombia ’s Legal Climate Framework Colombia’s climate change laws are extensive and align with its open commitment to fight climate change and its devastating effects.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 24, 2023

Despite the ongoing debate on whether ITLOS has jurisdiction to issue an advisory opinion on climate change, if the Tribunal asserts jurisdiction (on jurisdiction, see here and here) , there is still much to uncover. However, ITLOS is not responsible for implementing the UNFCCC or the Paris Agreement.

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Legal Planet

MAY 9, 2022

Last year, climate negotiators in Glasgow finalized the Paris Agreement rulebook for international cooperation through carbon markets, clearing the way for the expansion of emissions trading and carbon pricing worldwide. – Emissions trading as part of a portfolio of climate policies. Stay tuned. Download as PDF.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Below is a look at what tools are currently being used to facilitate justice for climate change on an international scale and where those mechanisms are falling short in ensuring transitional justice and a clean future. Unfortunately, when it comes to climate change, the truth is often obscured.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 30, 2023

But the result would surely be a surge in carbon emissions, dooming us to even more severe climate change. The federal government has gotten a late start in cutting US emissions anyway, due to Republican resistance. If we fall further behind, we could blow past any chance of meeting our climate targets.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

When thinking about global emissions, don’t picture an individual—point your finger at powerful corporations, specifically the 88 companies that are largely responsible for climate change. It can, and must, start now to meet the 2015 Paris Agreement goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degree C target within reach.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

When they converge on Glasgow this fall to rekindle pivotal global climate negotiations that were dampened during the pandemic, diplomats and government ministers will confront a world much changed since their last convention. Some have taken to calling the UN’s 26th climate convention the “adaptation convention.”.

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HumanNature

APRIL 10, 2023

But this simplified pathway misses a key step in cloud formation–and one that could help us combat climate change. The Paris Agreement is an international treaty adopted at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in 2015, with the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 °C C temperature target.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

As regular readers of this blog know, I am currently attending COP22 – the 22 nd Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) – in Marrakech. Much of the focus is on implementing the Paris Agreement , the landmark climate deal reached last year at COP21.

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Energy and Climate Law

DECEMBER 8, 2020

This ruling was released in the context of a surge in climate litigation cases in France and all over world. For France, the “Affaire du Siècle” case was filed in the Administrative Court of Paris in May 2019 by four NGOs against the government for its failure to act on climate change.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 27, 2021

In that time climate change has gone from being a fringe issue to a global priority. President of the summit is the physicist and politician Alok Sharma MP , who previously served as business secretary in the UK government. C above pre-industrial levels within the next two decades. James McKenzie.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Guest Commentary: Indonesian Human Rights Commission’s first human rights complaint on the impacts of climate change. Indonesia’s climate change context. Climate change is already causing widespread environmental impacts in Indonesia. By Margaretha Quina and Mae Manupipatpong*.

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