Law Columbia

DECEMBER 19, 2024

laws governing atmospheric methane removal (AMR) via soil amendments. Rapid and sustained reductions in human-driven methane emissions, which account for about 60% of the total, are critical to limiting warming in line with the 2015 Paris Agreement. law, especially federal environmental law.

Atmosphere

Law Columbia

JUNE 16, 2025

The book was published by De Gryuter Brill as part of its International Environmental Law series. The fifth and final section , Beyond the State: Climate Litigation and the Energy Transition , examines the role of financial institutions, tort law, and ambition in Brazil’s transition landscape.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

These numbers continue to rise as Canada is exporting record-breaking volumes of oil and millions of tonnes of thermal coal through its ports to be burned abroad each year — with concerns that they will continue to rise as governments in Canada approve new fossil fuel projects at home ( including new LNG projects in British Columbia ).

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 16, 2024

In the past year, weve seen significant victories that inspire hope, like the Swiss KlimaSeniorinnen case, which called for an improved government climate action plan; Held v. Shell case, for instance, the Dutch courts upheld the ruling that Shell must act to reduce emissions in line with the Paris Agreement.

2025

Law Columbia

JULY 15, 2025

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 Actions that jeopardize the future of life on Earth should be prohibited by law. Conclusion In the face of recent backtracking on climate commitments by governments (e.g.

Climate Change

Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Among the slew of executive orders President Trump passed on his first day in office was an order withdrawing the United States from the Paris Agreement, another authorizing unlimited oil drilling, and another gutting green initiatives across the country. obligations to the Paris Agreement without Trump. Climate Alliance.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

from the Paris Agreement again. Governments and philanthropies mobilized over $2 billion in grant funding for methane reduction, and new policies and regulations have been implemented to reduce methane emissions from the oil and gas and waste sectors. There was some promising news regarding methane emissions.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 9, 2025

In China we found the Central Government building new clean energy plants to quadruple wind and solar generation. Progress Dims Almost immediately, all the hope, the delight of accomplishment, the sincere fervor of change drained from the Paris Agreement. India followed. billion metric tons.

Clean Energy

Law Columbia

JANUARY 24, 2025

This blog post highlights aspects of the EOs of particular interest to cities, other local governments, and community based organizations (CBOs). It does not seek to discuss every aspect of Trumps EOs, nor to answer every question about the lawfulness of various provisions, nor to set out the exact mechanics for whats to come.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Much of that consisted in an all-out attack on environmental law. Hell withdraw from the Paris Agreement again, expunge the social cost of carbon, reinstitute changes in regulatory review that block new rules, and tell agencies to wipe out a lot of Biden rules. They say that history never repeats itself, but it often rhymes.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 17, 2025

Only 13 of the 195 signatory countries to the Paris Agreement submitted new national plans for tackling climate change by the recent deadline. withdrawing from that agreement again. State and local governments (called subnational by UN member countries) have to bear the brunt of the damage.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 23, 2025

So here: a look at the Trump administrations first moves in its whole-of-government approach to selling out the nation. A whole-of-government approach to selling the nation out The fossil fuel industrys wish-list is sprawling. That makes understanding the what and the why critical, to be prepared for all the attacks to come.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2025

It is a huge step forward,” UCLA Law Professor Kate Mackintosh told me in an email. Mackintosh is the Executive Director of the UCLA Law Promise Institute Europe in The Netherlands where the World Court is also based. It could also have big impacts on refugee law as the number of climate refugees increases.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

government no lomger cares whether its actions impose disproportionate health burdens on poor or minority communities. Exiting the Paris Agreement. Trump has launched a frontal assault on the government agencies charged with protecting the environment. He also abolished all environmental justice offices. It gives the U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 28, 2025

Yet Shell still touts its cornerstone climate target of reaching net-zero emissions by 2050 as in line with the Paris Agreement. Because the Shell resolution won more than 20% support, a consultation process is triggered between Shell and the shareholders under UK law.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

JULY 30, 2025

It prioritizes communities’ self-empowerment and addresses the right of people to participate in decisions that affect them and to receive equal protection from our nation’s laws.” The term “ norm sustainers ” was first used to describe states and cities that pledged to uphold the Paris Agreement on Climate Change when Trump pulled the U.S.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 28, 2025

He cancelled, for good, the long-running saga of the climate and environmentally destructive Keystone XL pipeline and then integrated climate action into every element of government departmental work following another series of executive orders. However, Biden, with his increasingly poor speaking skills, often failed to communicate the issue.

Clean Energy

Legal Planet

JANUARY 16, 2025

From my early days studying international environmental law, I have been a believer in the importance of multilateral partnerships and international treaty negotiations. Do we abandon the COP process especially given the likely withdrawal from the Paris Agreement by the incoming Trump Administration as some have argued ?

2025

Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2025

But wartime emissions remain largely unaccounted for; they were exempt from reporting under the Kyoto Protocol, and then left to States’ discretion under the Paris Agreement. As of 2022, such emissions made up an estimated 5,5 % of global emissions – enough for “the military” to be the world’s fourth-largest emitter.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 26, 2024

Our audience isnt just people who live and breathe climate law. On the other hand, if you’re an environmental law student and you miss most of the answers, you might want to hit the books again. Section 32 of the Paris Agreement. A California law. A legal issue that is not governed by existing precedent.

Law

Legal Planet

MAY 14, 2025

One more reason were not ready for COP30 is that only 21 countries 11% of the parties have put forward new targets to cut greenhouse gas emissions through to 2035, as required by the Paris Agreement. Brazil is calling on local and state governments to do more, reports Matteo Civillini at Climate Home News. Will Illinois Gov.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 15, 2025

Whats your assessment of the law at this point? Which parts of the law have the greatest positive impacts? These seem like the kind of things that government should be spending money on early-stage technologies. With that as background, this is a write-up of our conversation.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

JULY 10, 2025

Consider the story of Emma Rose Shore, a UCLA Law student and summer law fellow at the Emmett Institute. ” Elizabeth Kolbert at the New Yorker reflects on Whitehouse’s decade of wake-up calls regarding government inaction to address the climate crisis. It’s future ones too. Last October, she got great news.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 21, 2025

Instead, her resume looks like this : She pursued a law degree, worked as deputy general counsel and then policy director for then-Governor Rick Perry of Texas, and led a state-based free-market think tank that advocated for school vouchers and fossil fuel interests and against environmental safeguards.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

JULY 31, 2025

EO 14151: Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing (eliminating all environmental justice programs and offices) EO 14148: Initial Rescissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions (repealing Biden executive orders, including those relating to climate change and environmental justice).

Endangered Species Act

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 24, 2023

When diplomacy needs backup, countries turn to resolve their disputes at the ICJ, the United Nations’ principal judicial organ, to set the tone for international law. As an advisory body, the court provides legal opinions on international law questions. What is an advisory opinion?

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 24, 2023

Heat-trapping emissions are continuing to rise while the gap between what is needed to keep Paris Agreement goals in reach and adapt to ongoing climate impacts is ever-widening. The Vanuatu-led effort, which was initiated several years ago by law students at the University of the South Pacific, is now coming to fruition.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

As I prepare to attend the UN’s 28 th annual Conference of the Parties (COP28 ), I’ve been thinking a lot about the connection between the UN climate talks and litigation, especially in light of the stark reality that parties to the 2015 Paris Agreement are falling short on key milestones leading up to the next month’s meeting.

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Legal Planet

MAY 9, 2022

Last year, climate negotiators in Glasgow finalized the Paris Agreement rulebook for international cooperation through carbon markets, clearing the way for the expansion of emissions trading and carbon pricing worldwide. The post Governing Emissions Trading in California and China appeared first on Legal Planet. Stay tuned.

Government

Legal Planet

APRIL 13, 2023

The new wave of litigation also arose from the urgency of combating the rise in deforestation under the right-wing-oriented President Jair Bolsonaro, who left the government in January 2023 for the return of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Lula). The decision was made in a lawsuit filed by four political parties (PSB et al.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 17, 2022

With the signing of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) on Tuesday Aug 16, the most significant climate legislation in US federal history (so far) became law. Now that the US federal government is finally acting on climate, what impact does that have on the eagerness of China or India to fulfill their pledges or even increase their ambition?

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Energy and Climate Law

DECEMBER 8, 2020

By Dr Romain Mauger, Groningen Centre of Energy Law and Sustainability (GCELS) On 19 November 2020, the Conseil d’Etat (the French supreme administrative court) issued a historic ruling in the Commune de Grande Synthe case , potentially the first step towards a landmark climate litigation outcome in France.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

Even so, it compares favorably with the national governments in places like the U.S. In 2021, South Korea set a target under the Paris Agreement of a 40% cut from 2018 levels by 2030. A law on “green growth” requires carbon neutrality by 2050. What is South Korea doing to cut its emissions? and Australia.

Climate Change

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2021

As a government delegate, I have been involved in the UN climate negotiation process since 2017 to uphold Bangladesh’s and the Least Developed Countries (LDC) Group’s position. Article 6 is central to the Paris Agreement , and to make the Agreement fully operational these issues needed to be resolved.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

So for my last Climate Law and Policy class at UCLA Law this semester, I once again asked my students to tell me what they are thinking about the future of climate policy in light of today’s global circumstances, keeping in mind lessons we’ve learned through the semester. –Polina Hristova, LLM 2022. –Jay Parepally, JD 2023.

Climate Change

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.

Government

Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

In this case, environmental and human rights organizations, including Greenpeace and Oxfam (“the plaintiffs”), had taken legal action against the Government of Spain, alleging inadequate action on climate change. However, the Supreme Court found that the Spanish Government had complied with the Paris Agreement and the EU legislation.

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