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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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

If policymakers can reduce short-term, high-impact heat-trapping gases such as methane we can limit warming and keep the Paris Agreement goals within reach. Of course, we also will have to make sharp cuts in CO2 emissions, the main driver of climate change. The planet has already warmed 1.1 degrees C by 2100.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

I’ve just arrived in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, for the 27 th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change—the UN’s annual global climate conference, aka COP27. My UCS colleagues and I are here because global climate policy must be informed by and aligned with the latest science.

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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. Let’s hope our political leaders in Glasgow can make that a reality.”. Global goals.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 18, 2024

Incorporating International Climate Change Law to Maintain the ECHR’s Relevance Amid the Climate Crisis “Everything could be different – and yet there is almost nothing I can change.” This indicates that not only democracy but also litigation to compel governments to reduce GHG emissions is fraught with obstacles.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

This week, Circle of Blue reports on how water fits into the upcoming UN Climate Change Conference. When diplomats and government ministers converge on Glasgow this fall, they hope to rekindle pivotal negotiations on global climate that were dampened during the pandemic. Ingrid Timboe is a co-chair of the water pavilion.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2021

As a government delegate, I have been involved in the UN climate negotiation process since 2017 to uphold Bangladesh’s and the Least Developed Countries (LDC) Group’s position. Article 6 is central to the Paris Agreement , and to make the Agreement fully operational these issues needed to be resolved.

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Environmental Europe

JULY 12, 2017

What is needed to make the Paris Agreement a success? But if there is no system to ensure that they are monitored and evaluated, the agreement will have very shaky legs. But if there is no system to ensure that they are monitored and evaluated, the agreement will have very shaky legs.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

We’ve been hearing a lot lately about geoengineering – the various scientific theories and governance ideas that could eventually lead to technological interventions to help cool the planet. Take this recent CNN story titled “Supporters of a controversial climate solution say it could be key. A weather balloon.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Many recent scientific reports—including from the IPCC , UNEP and the IEA —show that we are fast running out of time to make the steep cuts in heat-trapping emissions that would keep the Paris Agreement temperature targets within reach. Yet global fossil fuel production and use continue to expand. Particulate matter (PM2.5)

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Legal Planet

MARCH 22, 2023

The world—and more specifically national governments, especially the richest nations and corporate interests—should concede that it is not feasible for us to make it on foot, but we still have lots of options to make it. limit: in preventing even worse outcomes of climate change and securing a liveable and sustainable future for all.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 17, 2021

It is often hard to make sense of what happens at the annual climate meetings, and easy to get cynical. For two or three weeks, climate politics gets intense worldwide news coverage. It’s pretty clear that neither the innermost nor outermost circle has yet achieved much concrete advance in dealing with climate change.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 17, 2024

Solar PV Project in Cuba (Photo credit: IRENA ) Today, the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law and Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) jointly published a new report titled Building a Cleaner, More Resilient Energy System in Cuba: Opportunities and Challenges. The report also explores how a bilateral dialogue between the U.S.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Coal clearly does not have the same clout as oil and gas, either in domestic politics or international negotiations. A lot of other coordination — between California and other subnational governments, between governments and corporations, and between NGOs — takes place in the side events that take place outside the formal event.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 4, 2022

Now the reports driven by these resolutions are beginning to roll in, and while they certainly provide some insight into the fossil fuel industry’s investment in political influence, a sleight of hand is preventing investors from seeing the companies’ full strategy. The company spent $6 million to lobby federal and state governments in 2020.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

How do they form, and what sorts of ideas does it provoke when we think about climate change and our current oil dependency? This sucro-politics was overtaken by carbo-politics, where the work was done by coal, and then more recently by the petro-politics of oil. Fossils, by nature, persist through time.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Last week, the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne hosted an official COP21 side event: Social Dynamics and Climate Change. For example, in a panel on energy transitions, the speakers uniformly recognized that government intervention (e.g., climate change litigation chart.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The court ruled that the failure to set specific mitigation measures to slow climate change, in accordance with the state’s obligations under European and international law, is unlawful and infringes the plaintiffs’ right to a favorable environment. Background to the claim. R ), which was created in 2019 to bring this case.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 30, 2022

Fossil fuels are the root cause of climate change, of long-standing environmental injustices, and are also frequently connected to geopolitical strife and violent conflicts. These data are alarming—underscoring how far off track the world continues to be in cutting the heat-trapping emissions fueling climate change.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The stocktake of G20 climate action is outlined in the latest annual report from Climate Transparency, an international partnership of organisations including Climate Analytics, the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), and the Berlin Governance Platform. Renewables rising. Loss and damage.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 17, 2021

The demand statement focuses on upholding Indigenous rights and respecting Indigenous knowledge, bold and ambitious climate action (including phasing out fossil fuels and guaranteeing a just transition to a sustainable clean energy economy), protecting and restoring nature and establishing environmental rights in Canada.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 22, 2022

As noted at the end of last year, 2021 was significant for climate litigation, with several decisions worldwide providing a fresh look at stakeholder responsibility for climate change. A landmark decision recognizing the impacts of climate change on human rights. In September this year, the U.N.

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Environmental Europe

JULY 1, 2020

The EU is facing a key challenge in climate and energy governance. It has agreed to address climate change under the Paris Agreement , and put forward increasingly ambitious policy targets for 2020, 2030 and 2050. Multilevel Coordination in EU Energy Policy: A New Type of “harder” Soft Governance?’,

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 23, 2023

And CO 2 emissions are a primary driver of global climate change, which is exacerbating the type of extreme weather that killed 474 people and caused $165 billion in damages in the United States last year alone. A recent study found that more than 99 percent of the global population is exposed to unsafe levels of PM 2.5

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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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Law Columbia

APRIL 8, 2022

The amended Article 41 is particularly innovative within the realm of European Constitutions insofar as it explicitly relates the carrying out of economic activities to the protection of the environment and – one might argue – to the fight against climate change. This reform bears thus a two-fold implication. In Neubauer, et al.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 21, 2021

degrees–the goal of the Paris Agreement and a critical threshold for climate change–the world must stop approving fossil fuel projects AND significantly ramp down the production of all fossil fuels: coal, oil, and fossil gas. So what do we need governments to do? This is a huge deal. Starting now.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 1, 2021

On October 26, 2021, Observatório do Clima (OC), a network of 71 civil society organizations, filed a class action at the federal court of Amazonas against the Environmental Ministry and Brazilian government ( Laboratório do Observatório do Clima v. The case is the latest on a growing climate litigation trend in Brazil.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 23, 2021

2021 was a significant year for climate litigation, with several decisions worldwide providing a fresh look at stakeholder responsibility for climate change. This post highlights some of the impactful decisions from courts and tribunals in climate litigation over the last year and their significance for future trends.

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Energy and Climate Law

JUNE 26, 2020

The European Council defines the EU's overall political direction and consits of heads of state or government of the 27 EU member states, the European Council President and the President of the European Commission. However, this shall only be done `after a thorough impact assessment´( p.18

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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

APRIL 4, 2021

Parliament passed the GGPPA based on an international consensus that greenhouse gas emissions contribute to global climate change. Countries around the world committed to drastically reduce their greenhouse gas emissions under the 2015 Paris Agreement. Climate Change Is Real. The question divided the courts.

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Environmental Europe

JULY 29, 2020

Greenhouse gas monitoring – and increasingly climate policy monitoring, meaning the continuous tracking of policies with indicators – has existed since the early 1990s – and is thus a long-standing practice. Towards Harder Soft Governance? Monitoring Climate Policy in the EU. References: Schoenefeld, J.J. & & Jordan, A.

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Frontiers

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) parties meet every year at the Conference of the Parties (COP) to negotiate and agree action on how to tackle climate change, limit emissions, and halt global warming. within reach – so we can meet the goals and ambitions of the Paris Agreement.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 19, 2023

By Zofeen Ebrahim Progress towards the construction of a China-funded coal power plant in Gwadar raises questions about the climate pledges of both China and Pakistan. Pakistan’s Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) ­– its climate pledge under the Paris Agreement – targets 60% renewable energy generation by 2030, including hydropower.

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