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The Right to a Healthy Environment as a Catalyst for Urgent and Ambitious Climate Action at the IACtHR

Law Columbia

Regarding the appropriate target, the IACtHR highlighted the international consensus in the Paris Agreement on a temperature increase of no more than 1.5 °C Conclusion In the face of recent backtracking on climate commitments by governments (e.g. Actions that jeopardize the future of life on Earth should be prohibited by law.

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Governors Lead the Fight on Forests and Climate

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Only 21 countries had even submitted their updated plans for managing climate change by the 2025 deadline required under the Paris Agreement. is pulling out of the agreement altogether. Many bilateral and multilateral agreements have sprung up like mushrooms from these side conversations. When the annual U.N.

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Analysis: After Trump cut funding for energy transitions overseas, could China step in?

A Greener Life

On the day he became president again, Donald Trump signed an executive order to take the US out of the Paris Agreement on climate change. The impacts of the US withdrawal In March, South Africa’s government announced the cancellation of US-funded projects that were in the planning or implementation stages.

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Brazil Advances in Climate Change Litigation

Legal Planet

Climate litigation is gaining momentum in Brazil as a tool to protect the Amazon rainforest from illegal deforestation. Deforestation in the Amazon decreased significantly (by over 70%) during Lula’s last two terms, while it jumped (about 60%) under President Bolsonaro.

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Singapore Publishes Eligibility List Under the International Carbon Credit Framework

Clean Energy Law

The Eligibility List followed the signing of an inaugural Article 6 implementation agreement with Papua New Guinea on carbon credits cooperation. Accordingly, each respective agreement will outline the structure and procedures for producing and transferring carbon credits in accordance with Article 6 of the Paris Agreement.

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Emergency?

Legal Planet

So, what if all parties – government, private sector, environmental groups, the public more broadly -actually made difficult choices and compromises, sometimes even involving important principles, in the face of dire consequences. trillion or 6.8 percent of GDP in 2020 and are expected to increase to 7.4

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COPs as Three-Ring Circus

Legal Planet

The middle ring is the space of informal, improvised action by diverse actors, including national governments, international organizations, private business and industry, and environmental and other civil-society groups. The Kyoto and Paris agreements are each separate treaties adopted under the FCCC.