Legal Planet
MARCH 7, 2024
Back in 2019, at the last face-to-face Assembly, the Swiss proposed a resolution to assess the science and possible governance of ‘climate altering techniques’ aka geoengineering. No steps have been taken towards stronger governance of experiments and development of SRM. Where does this leave us?
Environmental Science
SEPTEMBER 7, 2018
Environmental law, or sometimes known as environmental and natural resources law, is a term used to explain regulations, statutes, local, national and international legislation, and treaties designed to protect the environment from damage and to explain the legal consequences of such damage towards governments or private entities or individuals (1).
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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 By Jaap Spier [1]. An English press release is available here. to avoid passing the 1.5C
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. 31] Many energy experts are enthusiastic about solar panels, but new information has called the social and ethical value of the technology into question. 30] By contrast, today’s energy system requires just 0.5
Legal Planet
MARCH 8, 2024
But rules and norms about such technologies are patchy, and recent unauthorized experiments have set alarm bells ringing. Many developing countries wanted to include social, legal, ethical, human rights, geopolitical and security dimensions – and governance – in the remit of the ‘repository’ (or any assessment process).
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