Deforestation Law Ocean 
Law Columbia
JULY 15, 2025
States must adopt “binding measures” to achieve the mitigation target, apply the maximum available resources, avoid reliance on unproven technologies, and target the main sources of emissions (fossil fuels, agriculture and deforestation).
Scientific American
JUNE 17, 2025
And because roughly 60 percent of global textiles now contain plastic derived from fossil fuels, it is estimated that more than a third of the microplastics in the oceans today were shed from clothing. Cotton agriculture alone uses 2.1 percent of the world’s arable land. While the E.U. are moving more slowly.
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Legal Planet
MAY 5, 2022
Its location between two oceans, as well as its latitude and topography significantly increase Mexico’s exposure to extreme hydro meteorological events.” Mexico’s climate commitment for 2030 under the Paris Agreement calls for cutting emissions 22%, cutting black carbon by half, and achieving net-zero deforestation.
Legal Planet
SEPTEMBER 30, 2021
Today, climate change is the central, though by no means the only, concern in environmental law. The earliest mentions of these terms in the law review literature came in the late 1970s, and only one of the pre-1985 discussions took a comprehensive look at the problem. Third, there was so much else going on in environmental law.
A Greener Life
JANUARY 18, 2022
During last November’s COP26 climate change conference, the president of Costa Rica, Carlos Alvarado, signed an agreement that will see US$20 million flow towards the conservation of the country’s forests, funds earmarked to increase protection and help avoid deforestation. Debt-for-nature swaps in Costa Rica.
A Greener Life
APRIL 1, 2022
Two reports published in the US look seriously at the practicalities and responsibilities of altering the ocean to tackle the climate crisis. Two recent developments aim to clear a path for testing these controversial methods in the ocean. The ocean as a carbon sink. Photo credit: Daniel Poloha / Alamy. By Olive Heffernan.
Law Columbia
JULY 16, 2025
Jus cogens norms are a special kind of customary law. Customary law is created by States through state practice and corresponding opinio iuris. It is generally binding on all states, with limited exceptions for states that have consistently objected to a particular norm of customary international law.
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