Legal Planet

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Yet there was one issue where they did agree: climate change. Kissinger spoke at length about climate change in a 2009 speech. Kissinger also viewed climate change as an economic threat. Climate change also promises to impact the global economy.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The foundational document of international human rights law is the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. But it is less often acknowledged in climate science and policy circles that cultural heritage is a human right vital for people’s sense of identity and wellbeing, and for the vitality, stability, and resilience of their communities.

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Law Columbia

MAY 10, 2024

The recent rulings on climate change by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) are—as others have pointed out in this blog symposium —both “historic and unprecedented” for various reasons, not least regarding the question of reparation for climate change-related harm. Portugal and 32 Other States and Carême v.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Since this is Black History Month, I thought it would be appropriate to talk about some of the prominent contributions by Blacks to understanding and addressing climate change. He has pioneered computer modeling of climate change. Kari Fulton led the campaign for the Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 13, 2023

A new wave of cases differs from traditional environmental lawsuits by highlighting the connections between preserving the Amazon and the climate, the grave risk of greenhouse gas emissions caused by deforestation, and the critical role of the forest as a major global carbon sink. The timing of these climate disputes is not accidental.

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Clean Energy Law

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

On appeal of a strike out decision, the Court gives the plaintiff “his day in court” to argue that corporates owe a common law duty of care in tort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. 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.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Sabin Center for Climate Change Law Submits Amicus Brief on Climate and Human Rights to Inter-American Court On Friday, November 3, 2023, the Sabin Center submitted an amicus curiae brief to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in the matter of the Request for Advisory Opinion on climate law, human rights, and climate science.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 10, 2024

With its unique design, the Paris Agreement does not prescribe specific actions by countries but encourages them to develop their own tailored approaches to combat climate change. In any case, Brazil’s commitment to reducing carbon emissions and achieving climate neutrality by 2050 is conditional and depends on external funding.

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Energy and Climate Law

MAY 21, 2021

Our Encyclopedia on Energy Law, Climate Change and the Environment has now been published and may be ordered at Edward Elgar. This volume of the Elgar Encyclopedia of Environmental Law provides an overview of the major elements of energy law from a global perspective.

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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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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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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Although the Governor proposed slashing $6 billion from the climate package, in the end, the cuts totaled less than half that. And 2023 was a high-water mark in terms of bill introductions, with lawmakers considering upwards of 2,600 bills; scores of them covered climate change, energy, and environment-related topics.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 3, 2023

In preparing to teach a course on climate law, I was really struck by how broad and rich the field has become. Back in the day, it was nearly all international law, but nowadays there’s a huge amount of U.S. domestic law. and international law. and international law. climate policy. Here goes: I.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

So far, the country has adopted several laws to strengthen the legal framework towards achieving these goals. Likewise, the country has started to implement programs to mitigate GHG emissions and to promote REDD+ projects , all intending to achieve climate-related goals. Law 629 of 2000 on the Kyoto Protocol.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 15, 2023

A Montana state district court has issued its long-awaited decision in a major climate change case brought by Montana children against state officials. Judge Seeley did so after presiding over a two-week, non-jury trial in June 2023–the first such climate change trial in U.S. In Held v. legal history.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

A law on “green growth” requires carbon neutrality by 2050. The post South Korea and Climate Change appeared first on Legal Planet. Last year, South Korea promised to halt financing for coal projects in other countries immediately. South Korea also agreed to join the Global Methane Pledge and cut emissions one third by 2030.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 22, 2022

On June 13, 2022, Chile published its Climate Change Framework Law (“the Climate Act”). The Climate Act includes a binding goal of net zero emissions by 2050 at the latest, following the recommendations of the IPCC. Climate change regulatory instruments. By Robert Currie Ríos*.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The California Legislature has enacted and Governor Gavin Newsom recently signed into law SB 389 , an important water law reform measure authored by State Senator Ben Allen. SB 389 is part of a broader initiative by the Legislature–and public interest groups–to reform and update California’s water laws.

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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

APRIL 27, 2023

Member States to submit their views on the legal issues relevant to climate duties and obligations. To help States make these submissions, Columbia Law School’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law has just released its Status Report on Principles of International and Human Rights Law Relevant to Climate Change.

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Climate Change Blawg

SEPTEMBER 26, 2020

The following are some of the top climate change legal influencers on Twitter. They are some of the best lawyers, legal academics and legal organisations trying to turn the tide on climate change through change in the law across many different jurisdictions.

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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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Law and Environment

JANUARY 29, 2024

According to WBUR , some legislators around the country are so pleased with how well CERCLA works that they have proposed a “Climate Superfund Act,” replicating CERCLA in order to fund climate resiliency projects as well as projects to repair damages caused by climate change. first appeared on Law and the Environment.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 10, 2023

Many of these disasters—including floods, storms, wildfires and droughts—were worsened by climate change. . Climate change is not the sole causative factor, of course. That’s why the long-waited climate bill that the U.S. Source: NOAA [link].

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Local actors seek climate change damages from the biggest fossil fuel companies through state law litigation. EPA and the Supreme Court’s deregulatory trend, state action remains an avenue for climate change adaptation and mitigation. Individuals, too, have brought state law cases.

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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. Assuming the ITLOS will assert jurisdiction, this post’s objective is twofold.

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Law and Environment

AUGUST 9, 2021

The IPCC has released its Sixth Assessment Report on the physical science basis of climate change. Widespread and rapid changes in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere and biosphere have occurred. Human-induced climate change is already affecting many weather and climate extremes in every region across the globe.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 7, 2023

Climate change is putting more people and property in harm’s way—and also exposing hard limits to the protection that property insurance can offer. Insurance is the ‘canary in the coal mine’ for climate change The risks of climate change have long been recognized by the reinsurance industry—including SwissRe and Munich Re —but U.S.

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Legal Planet

MAY 19, 2023

Monterey County Oil Field (credit: Monterey County Weekly) For the first two decades of this century, and under the able leadership of former Chief Justices Ronald George and Tani Cantil-Sakauye, the California Supreme Court was quite active in interpreting and shaping California environmental law. Well, break’s over.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Last week, the Sabin Center’s Peer Reviewer Network provided a detailed comment in response to the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights’ Call for Comments on the draft study concerning the impact of climate change on human rights in Africa. Read the comment here.

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Law and Environment

JULY 31, 2023

I’ve posted previously about the importance of extreme heat among the impacts of climate change. The post Can We Afford to Mitigate the Impact of Climate Change? first appeared on Law and the Environment. Much of the popular literature focuses, rightly, on the public health impacts. Can We Afford Not To?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 25, 2024

This week, the InterAmerican Court of Human Rights (IACHR) started to hear testimony at the University of the West Indies , near Bridgetown, Barbados, addressing one of the most pressing global issues of our time: climate change and its implications on human rights. You can watch the full testimony here.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

In an unusual move, the commission is also reviewing what keeping Line 5 operating means for climate change. Evaluating the impact on climate change if Line 5 continues to operate is new. “We The Environmental Law and Policy Center and Michigan Climate Action hired experts. Will it damage the environment?

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Both of these are driven by the dilemmas that public land managers must address as a result of both wildfire and climate change – namely, that passive management alone may not be adequate to achieve our management goals for our public lands and natural resources. Both climate change and fire suppression are anthropogenic.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 2, 2023

On September 29, 2023, a report titled “ITLOS Advisory Opinion on Climate Change: Summary of Briefs and Statements Submitted to the Tribunal” was published by the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law. Read the report here.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Energy law used to be an obscure niche subject. Energy law is a hot topic. Law students are thronging to the field, seeing an opportunity to combine social relevance with good-paying jobs. Top law schools are responding by competing for faculty. There are three interlinked reasons for the change. Climate change.

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Law and Environment

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

For those of you who don’t think that worrying about climate change is enough to keep you busy, you might want to take a look at this study commissioned by the WWF, Impacts of Plastic Pollution in the Oceans on Marine Species, Biodiversity and Ecosystems. .

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