Legal Planet

JUNE 4, 2021

its district, appellate , and supreme courts decided in favor of Urgenda, an upstart environmental organization, ordering the government to more aggressively reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Environmental Protection Agency (2007) forced the EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. Everyone produces greenhouse gases.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The results, published in Nature magazine, provide a much clearer, evidence-based picture, which is likely to change government policy in the US and beyond. It captures the changes in mortality rates that are going to happen… the changes in crop yields… the changes in sea level rise, and the damages that will cost…”.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 2, 2022

For example, the SEC rule’s disclosure regime is based on one created by the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) , an international initiative that grew out of a council of government finance officials known as the G20. Take the oil and gas industry.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JANUARY 17, 2024

On the other hand, the chapter’s assessment of alternative plant proteins is more measured, noting their potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions but also identifying the clear downsides in terms of increased needs for infrastructure and energy. Sea level rise is also important in the region, causing saltwater intrusion and salinization.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 12, 2023

Having in mind this link between the oceans and climate change, it would be natural for the United Nations Conventions on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) to provide a clear picture of States’ obligations to protect and preserve the marine environment in the context of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and climate change.

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Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 30, 2019

Executive Order 80 supports the 2015 Paris Agreement and sets several goals for the state to meet by 2025: Reduce state greenhouse gas emissions by 40% from 2005 levels. Reduce energy use per square foot in state-owned buildings by 40% from 2002-2003 levels. (For law, but it can guide the use of existing authority.

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Capaccio

JULY 25, 2023

IFRS S1 requires disclosure in four main areas: Governance – Companies are required to disclose information regarding management’s role in overseeing and responding to sustainability-related risks and opportunities, as well as how management considers these factors when making decisions.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Those impacts—sometimes irksome, sometimes devastating—are increasingly obvious, and the causal mechanisms that connect them to the emission of greenhouse gases increasingly well understood. Lorenzen , an attorney at Crowell & Moring LLP who has led the coalition of petitioners challenging the Clean Power Plan before the D.C.

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Frontiers

MARCH 24, 2023

Yes, there are ecological factors at play, but human governance, or lack of governance, creates a stage for degradation. Elinor Ostrom, Nobel Prize winner in Economic Sciences, has written about the diversity of community-based governance approaches that can effectively govern water resources in particular.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 2, 2024

This year promises to be the ‘Year of Climate’ in international courts and tribunals with opinions slated to be coming down from the European Court of Human Rights, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, and the International Court of Justice.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2018

These new approaches include asserting new legal theories to creatively applying long-recognized doctrine rooted in the common law. In an unusual approach to an environmental law issue, they have brought claims grounded in the Constitution and the public trust doctrine. Some applaud these novel approaches to environmentalism.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

AUGUST 11, 2023

After arriving at the Boulderado and acclimating to being more than 5,000 feet above sea level, attendees played a heated round of NSAC Acronym BINGO ahead of the first full day of meetings. a Teaching Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado who teaches courses on environmental and natural resources policy and law.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 17, 2013

Columbia Center for Climate Change Law. In other words, rather than just considering the greenhouse gas emissions from individual projects, environmental impact statements are now regularly considering how a proposed project will be affected by anticipated sea level rise, increased storm surges, more intense heat waves, and the like.

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Vermont Law

JUNE 15, 2016

The intersection of human rights and environmental law must be considered if international governmental bodies wish to effectively address these issues. These norms will create a space where discourses over environmental laws and humans rights laws are no longer treated as totally separate from one another. By Mahmudul Hasan.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Litigation against major corporate greenhouse gas (GHG) emitters has proven extremely tough. Even as successful cases against governments have blossomed, private suits face significant barriers. A civil law breakthrough came in 2021, with the ruling of a Dutch court against Shell.

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Law and Environment

AUGUST 17, 2023

As more advisory services, investment companies, and public companies have publicized their Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) goals, the U.S. The proposal requires companies to report information related to “Scope 1” direct carbon emissions (think fuel use and greenhouse gases), “Scope 2” indirect carbon emissions (e.g.,

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 14, 2022

The law requires that 49 percent of drinking water and lead pipe removal funds must be delivered to disadvantaged communities in the form of grants or forgivable loans. In analyzing 10,420 facilities , the Government Accountability Office found 31 percent have these risks. government water policy. Blockchain and Water.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

Each month, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP (APKS) and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. A number of different parties had lined up on either side of the issue of whether EPA’s stay was lawful. and non-U.S. Juliana v.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 14, 2024

These state-level “Climate Superfund” bills are modeled on the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA), commonly known as Superfund, which imposes liability on multiple parties, including the generators of waste, for the cleanup of contaminated sites.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Even before adoption of the 1992 Framework Convention, the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) had proposed an “International Insurance Pool” to pay vulnerable countries based on observed sea level rise. The first explicit use of the term L&D was in the 2007 Bali Action Plan , in a section on enhanced action for adaptation.

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Ocean Conservancy

JULY 20, 2023

Coastal flooding : Sea levels are rising as the ocean heats up and polar ice melts. Higher seas mean higher storm surge and more coastal flooding leading to coastal community and ecosystem damage. Preventing pollution : Old water infrastructure is not capable of handling the rainfall or sea level rise caused by climate change.

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Arnold Porter

JULY 16, 2021

Over the last several years the market has seen the increase of environmental, social and governance (ESG) disclosures by public companies occur in fits and starts in reaction to pressures from a variety of constituents, including some of the largest institutional investors.

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Environment Next

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

that EPA could regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. auto sector carbon emissions) was to address the less-direct causal chain between atmospheric greenhouse gases and sea level rise in Massachusetts. It did not apply to UPHE’s claims that tailpipe emissions harmed its members’ health. .

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Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

in 2012: “In an increasingly carbon- constrained world, our existing environmental laws and regulatory process no longer achieve their underlying goals of long-term ecosystem conservation. We have little time left to create a practical path to achieving an 80% reduction in greenhouse gases by 2050.” sea level rise.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 27, 2024

That seems to be the Florida playbook for dealing with the climate crisis facing Floridians in the form of rising sea levels and deadly temperatures. The only thing worse than a wet heat is being governed by climate change deniers in a wet heat. If signed by Gov. Though indoor heat protections have proved trickier recently.)

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. Colorado Federal Court Remanded Local Governments’ Climate Case to State Court. and non-U.S. climate litigation charts. Rhode Island v. Chevron Corp. ,

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Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Plaintiffs aim to hold the federal government accountable for worsening the dangers of climate change through increased reliance on fossil fuels and for breach of its fiduciary obligation to protect the atmosphere and oceans under the public trust doctrine. It has also inspired landmark decisions in climate protection on a global scale.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 14, 2021

SG would cool the Earth, temporarily and imperfectly offsetting some of the climate effects of elevated greenhouse gases, by reflecting a bit (around 0.5% All research is governed, mostly through normal processes of peer review, research-program management, and compliance with applicable laws and regulations.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

To date, the growing trend in the financial services industry to incorporate environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors into business strategies, risk management frameworks and disclosure practices largely has been a voluntary undertaking. N:Group of Thirty, Mainstreaming the Transition to a Net-Zero Economy , October 2020.]]

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Legal Planet

APRIL 26, 2023

Supreme Court gave state and local governments a big–if preliminary–legal win against the fossil fuel industry. Critically, the California local jurisdictions filed their cases in state courts, relying on longstanding state common law principles such as public nuisance and trespass as the legal basis for their claims.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

What’s Your Community Doing? Other States/National/International -- PG/NYT: Republicans, Toomey Stall Critical Vote On Federal Reserve Nominees Over Climate Issues -- AP: U.S.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2018

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. It demands to be governed by as universal a rule of apportioning responsibility as is available.” applied federal common law. and non-U.S. FEATURED CASE.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

I was one of the lucky ones allowed into the packed room, where he gave a rousing addressing, calling for urgent action by governments, businesses, and individuals to combat climate change. Secretary Kerry began his address by declaring: “climate change is deeply personal to me, but its personal to everyone in this room.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 6, 2023

The project is controversial due to its contribution to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and its location on the North Slope of Alaska, which happens to be the largest undisturbed track of public land in the U.S. direct temperature stress, ocean acidification, sea level rise, extreme events, and alterations to food chains).

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. EPA of a 2015 rule barring replacement of ozone-depleting substances with hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which are powerful greenhouse gases. and non-U.S.

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Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2021

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. s challenge to the constitutionality of the linkage between California’s greenhouse gas emissions cap-and-trade program and Quebec trading program. and non-U.S.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

EPA , the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has regulated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from motor vehicles under the Clean Air Act. The petitioners, joined by intervenor States and local governments, appealed this determination, and in Massachusetts v. Following the 2007 landmark Supreme Court case Massachusetts v.

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