Law Columbia

APRIL 22, 2021

Over the last decade, courts, legislatures and various bodies of government in countries around the world have sought and won ecosystem protection through nature rights. The court ordered the government to develop and implement action plans to address deforestation. What countries have declared rights of nature?

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Moreover, with this strategic litigation, the Czech Republic joins the list of countries where citizens are challenging governments’ overall responses to climate change. In April 2021, a group of Czech citizens filed a case against the national government for its inaction on climate change. On the claim against the government.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 21, 2022

The finding relied on (i) the reasonable foreseeability of the risk of death or personal injury through heat waves or bushfires, (ii) the precautionary principle, (iii) the special vulnerability of the children, (iv) their reliance on the Minister for protection, and (v) their innocence. The Minister subsequently appealed the decision.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 17, 2023

Lawyers for the corporate coalition and Dow Chemical, who are fighting the federal government and, by association, the environment and all living things, tried to argue all week that there’s not enough evidence that plastic items are toxic to the environment. But they had two quibbles. Yes, our products kill turtles. Shocked silence].

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Law Columbia

APRIL 24, 2023

This view is supported by the recognition of this obligation in instruments that predate UNCLOS, such as Principle 21 of the Stockholm Declaration and the Trail Smelter Judgment , where the Tribunal noted that each “State owes at all times a duty to protect other States against injurious acts by individuals from within its jurisdiction.”

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Law Columbia

MAY 10, 2021

On April 29, 2021 the German Constitutional Court (the Bundesverfassungsgericht, or GCC) rendered a ground-breaking judgment, requiring the German government to establish specific plans to achieve its mid-century greenhouse gas emissions goal. (An Government of Ireland (Supreme Court of Ireland, July 31, 2020), available at [link].

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Whether you choose to use a more formalized decision method or one that relies on more qualitative judgments and best professional judgment, you should bear in mind whatever guidance the governing statute provides about decision making under uncertainty, such as language requiring an adequate margin of safety. [1]

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Dario Piselli

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

In recent years, and with growing intensity since the adoption of the Paris Agreement, the concept of environmental health has emerged as a fundamental prism through which to analyse the complex interplay between global health and environmental law.

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Environmental Progress

MARCH 11, 2021

23] In response to Fukushima, the Japanese government shut down its nuclear plants and the cost of electricity went up. But given the fungible nature of silicon, some fear the Chinese government could evade such controls. [36] In Germany, the government has had to resort to various mechanisms to prevent utilities from going bankrupt.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Colorado Federal Court Remanded Local Governments’ Climate Case to State Court. The court said the defendants’ argument that the plaintiffs’ state law claims were governed by federal common law appeared to be a matter of ordinary preemption, which would not provide a basis for federal jurisdiction. Rhode Island v. Chevron Corp. ,

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Legal Planet

MARCH 8, 2024

Different forms of Solar Geoengineering (NOAA/CIRES) With good will on all sides, a UNEA resolution might have been a step towards a genuinely global assessment process, respecting a wide range of knowledge types and facilitating well governed research that would help everyone understand the issues at stake. But it wasn’t to be.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Divided Ninth Circuit Said Juliana Plaintiffs Lacked Standing to Press Constitutional Climate Claims Against Federal Government. Ninth Circuit Heard Oral Argument in California Local Government Cases; Fossil Fuel Companies Said Juliana Decision Supported Their Position. Environmental Council of Sacramento v. County of Sacramento , No.

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Environmental Europe

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Layzer contends that US Conservatives have thus “created a storyline that undermines the environmental narrative by discrediting environmentalists and furnishing a principled basis for disputing their claims”. [2] 2] Examples of such principled opposition include calling for the respect for property rights (v.

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