Legal Planet
MARCH 3, 2025
Assemblymember Dawn Addis commented on AB 1243: The Central Coast has faced the devastating impacts of climate change, from floods and wildfires to coastal erosion. We must be relentless and creative in pursuing all avenues to redirect the financial burden away from the consumer as we mitigate the consequences of human-made disasters.
Law Columbia
JULY 30, 2025
By focusing on what the ICJ did not say, we can gain a better understanding of how it navigates its institutional constraints, political sensitivities, and the evolving terrain of international climate litigation. This blog post discusses five points where the ICJ could have provided greater clarity or elaborated in more detail.
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A Greener Life
JULY 6, 2025
Political controversies and deforestation policies Brazil has made progress in reducing deforestation, with a 30.6% Stronger legal measures, including better law enforcement, specific legislation for activist protection, and accountability, are essential to safeguarding those fighting for the environment.
Law Columbia
MAY 7, 2025
Similar to the advisory opinion request to the IACtHR, the request submitted to the AfCHPR details how climate change worsens existing inequalities, disproportionately impacting women, children, persons with disabilities, the elderly, Indigenous groups, environmental human rights defenders, and victims of natural disasters.
Union of Concerned Scientists
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
In contrast to civil, political, and economic rights, cultural rights have been side-lined and neglected in dialogues about climate policy and human rights. Flooding, coastal erosion, wildfires, thawing permafrost, and extreme weather events are causing unprecedented loss and damage of places and customs.
Law Columbia
JULY 26, 2025
The ICJ held that, under the principle of non-refoulement , states have an obligation not to return individuals to situations where there are substantial grounds to believe there is a real risk of irreparable harm to their right to life, as protected by Article 6 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
The Energy Law
MARCH 3, 2017
Today, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed the Eastern District’s exercise of jurisdiction and dismissal on the merits of a headline-grabbing environmental law tort suit against 97 oil and gas companies, seeking to hold those entities responsible for Louisiana’s coastal erosion.
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