Law Columbia
APRIL 4, 2024
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. Over 80 government framework cases have been filed around the world, using a wide variety of legal and factual arguments.
A Greener Life
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
President-elect Gabriel Boric’s new government must address issues of decarbonisation, water crisis and lithium nationalisation, all while rewriting the country’s constitution. In our government, it will be a priority to avoid this destruction and to have development that is compatible with the environment.”. By Francisco Parra Galaz
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Greenbuilding Law
JUNE 18, 2023
In this instance, 16 young people from across Montana, who were between 2 and 18 years old when the case was filed in 2020, brought their constitutional climate lawsuit, Held v. State of Montana , against their state government. What would the impact be when the conservative Montana legislative branch sides with the executive branch?
Enviromental Defense
DECEMBER 10, 2021
While we know tailings are currently leaking toxic water into groundwater, the government has done no study on the health impact this has had – despite high rates of rare cancers in the First Nations communities downstream. Government is failing to enforce existing laws meant to protect people and the environment in the oil sands .
Inside Climate News
MAY 26, 2023
The famed researcher publicly released a preliminary version of a paper-in-progress with grim predictions of short- and long-term warming, but not all climate scientists agree with its conclusions.
Legal Planet
MARCH 7, 2024
Back in 2019, at the last face-to-face Assembly, the Swiss proposed a resolution to assess the science and possible governance of ‘climate altering techniques’ aka geoengineering. No steps have been taken towards stronger governance of experiments and development of SRM. Where does this leave us?
Legal Planet
FEBRUARY 2, 2023
Last year, I posted about the contributions made by Black climate scientists. As the federal government increasingly came in the grip of Jim Crow around the turn of the century, Brown was shamefully mistreated and demoted. Yesterday was the start of Black History Month. area on topics such as “The Social Habits of Insects.”
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