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MARCH 24, 2023

This dire state of affairs is just one of the reasons why the Republic of Vanuatu and more than 100 other nations have drafted a resolution asking the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to issue an advisory opinion on climate change. An ICJ advisory opinion could clarify many of the climate justice issues my work identifies.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2023

This flexibility and inclusiveness were intentional design features aimed at securing broad international support and fostering a spirit of collective responsibility in addressing the urgent issue of climate change. Meanwhile, in the United States, the recent Held v.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2024

But he also voices full-throated conspiracy theories denying the reality of human-caused climate change. In one podcast segment titled “The Real Cause of Climate Change, ” he says he’s been trying to convince friends and family that natural “solar cycles” are behind global warming, not greenhouse gas emissions from humans.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Right To Water: Could 2023 Be The Year Michigan Ends Shutoffs? Michigan legislative leaders say they expect lots of attention this year to water affordability and quality issues, starting with a bill that would declare water to be a human right. A bill sponsored by Sen. government and most states do not.

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APRIL 24, 2023

In our new report, Managing Water Scarcity: A Framework for Fair and Effective Water Right Curtailment in California , we argue that the state needs to act now to strengthen its capacity to fairly and effectively allocate water in times of scarcity. As a result, the SWRCB issued curtailment orders months after they were warranted.

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DECEMBER 14, 2023

The Private Members Bill, if passed, would establish the UK’s first law mandating business due diligence on human rights and the environment. This comes at a time of increasing pressure on companies to engage in human rights and environmental due diligence. By Paul A. Davies , Michael D.

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APRIL 10, 2024

The three much-awaited judgments issued by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on April 9, 2024 are truly historic and unprecedented. Switzerland , the Grand Chamber established that climate change is “one of the most pressing issues of our times” and poses a threat to human rights.

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APRIL 9, 2024

In a transformative moment for European and global climate litigation, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled today that the state has a positive duty to adopt, and effectively implement in practice, regulations and measures capable of mitigating the existing and potentially irreversible future effects of climate change.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2023

The Park Service credits him with establishing “that it was critical to both the parks and private landowners to settle contentious property rights issues, paving a foundation for later land acquisition.” Colonel Young recommended that the government expand the parks and negotiated with neighboring landowners to acquire their property.

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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). Brazil) is also noteworthy.

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JANUARY 6, 2022

In a special episode of Speaking of Water authors Giulio Boccaletti and Parag Khanna interview each other about their new books that are capturing attention around the world and provoking debate about borders, conflicts, and what sustainability may look like for the human race. JCG: Let’s start with water right off the bat with Giulio.

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JANUARY 16, 2023

King died in 1968, and the Civil Rights Movement had already been a powerful national presence for well over a decade. Environmental justice issues first received widespread attention in 1982 when protests erupted over the construction of a new waste disposal facility in a black community in North Carolina.

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MARCH 24, 2023

Ranging from human rights violations to border disputes, conflicts among nations are often complex and contentious. The impact of an ICJ advisory opinion on climate change could be similarly significant and help shape international law and policy on this critical issue.

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MARCH 29, 2023

The requests are pending at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS ) and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR, see here for an initial analysis of the advisory opinion request). The ICJ request adds to two requests for advisory opinions on climate change. State of the Netherlands , Neubauer, et al.

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JANUARY 9, 2023

President Biden signs three bills related to tribal water rights in Arizona. And lastly, the White House issues new climate accounting guidelines for environmental impact statements. And lastly, the White House issues new climate accounting guidelines for environmental impact statements. Tribal Water Rights.

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APRIL 18, 2024

The rise in the global average temperature is therefore, as the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) acknowledged in the KlimaSeniorinnen decision (paras. 22, 319–336) would not have alleviated their harm, despite the “causal relationship between climate change and the enjoyment of Convention rights” (para.

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THE GREAT LAKES | ANISHINABEK TERRITORY – Last Friday, the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) recommended that Canada and the United States decommission the Enbridge Line 5 oil pipeline. Human Rights Council for Canada’s upcoming Universal Periodic Review (UPR). million litres of oil.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The advancement of science over the past several decades has helped shed light on the truth around the impacts of human activity on the climate and more recently, has allowed us to understand what share of responsibility individual countries and corporations hold. What does justice mean for people and countries harmed by climate deception?

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JUNE 23, 2022

A number of environmental advocates have been pushing a new strategy for environmental protection – seeking to pursue legal rights for elements of nature (such as rivers , lakes , ecosystems, or species), sometimes in alliance with Native American tribes.

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DECEMBER 8, 2022

Compared to Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis is practically a Greta Thunberg on environmental issues. Sarcasm aside, DeSantis is pretty good on environmental issues for a Republican. He does admit there’s a “human contribution” to global warming. And you would be right about that. The other was. And there you have it.

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APRIL 4, 2024

Next week’s judgments from the European Court of Human Rights in its first climate cases will be another significant factor to shape this field – so watch this space for more analysis to come! Finally, we expect issues related to the Integrity Gap in governments’ net zero targets to gain prominence in future cases.

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FEBRUARY 29, 2024

It promises to undo the damage to ecology and the climate done by logging and other human activities. A February 2 article shows that such issues are not limited to forest restoration. The most recent article of the three focuses don a specific carbon removal strategy, forest restoration. a truly international team.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Supreme Court has held, however, that our Constitution protects people from the government but doesn’t require the government to protect their rights, even the right to life. courts to the global climate system or even, so far as I know, to issues of air pollution. Hostility to implied rights.

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JUNE 26, 2023

In the complaint, the Plaintiffs argued that they were likely to suffer damage from air pollution and the emissions of greenhouse gases by the coal-fired power plants and those would violate personal rights or the right to a peaceful life of the Plaintiffs. Those two rights were invoked for the first time in this case.

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APRIL 27, 2023

Member States to submit their views on the legal issues relevant to climate duties and obligations. To help States make these submissions, Columbia Law School’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law has just released its Status Report on Principles of International and Human Rights Law Relevant to Climate Change.

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APRIL 12, 2024

This is not only an environmental problem; scientists are increasingly connecting plastics and the chemicals they’re made from to health issues, including cancers, infertility, obesity and heart disease. We hope you’ll join us as we help lead the Earth Day charge against plastic pollution, right here in Canada.

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APRIL 15, 2022

In a victory for scientific integrity, this week the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a long-delayed draft toxicological assessment on formaldehyde, a chemical widely used in building materials, medicinal and personal care products, and furnishings. Comments will be accepted until June 13.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2024

New company, outdated business model: Siemens Energy fails on climate and human rights Urgewald PaulaR Mon, 02/19/2024 - 18:02 Tuesday, February 9, 2021 Read more Ahead of Siemens Energy’s first annual general meeting, environmental and human rights organizations are seeing the company headed in a critical direction.

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APRIL 25, 2024

I am a former EPA official who worked in the agency’s Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights and have over 20 years of experience in equity-centered public service. Unfortunately, the way Justice40 is set up right now, it will not provide transparency on a program-by-program basis across federal agencies.

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APRIL 25, 2024

As former EPA officials in the agency’s Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights, we had a front row seat to how Justice40, a landmark initiative born via President Biden’s executive order 14008 , was rolled out. This has resulted in significant delays across key decisionmakers, as pointed out by GAO.

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DECEMBER 22, 2022

A landmark decision recognizing the impacts of climate change on human rights. Human Rights Committee (Committee) handed down a landmark decision in Daniel Billy and others v Australia , holding that Australia is violating its human rights obligations to the indigenous Torres Strait Islanders through climate change inaction.

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JANUARY 30, 2024

Oppenheimer was released , bringing unprecedented attention in the media and public of these issues while completely leaving out the communities harmed by Oppenheimer’s atomic bomb. They see nothing wrong with looking away from our basic human right to appropriate health care. Source: Maggie Billiman.

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APRIL 5, 2023

Human-caused climate change is expected to increase the number and intensity of extreme weather events like hurricanes, floods, and droughts that are already ravaging communities across the United States. The human cost of the Pajaro disaster, including the loss of homes, jobs, and local infrastructure, is truly tragic and may be growing.

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JANUARY 24, 2024

Far-right policy strategists are laying plans, largely endorsed by the Trump campaign, for getting rid of federal government workers who might otherwise stand in the way of a radical deregulation agenda. Donald Trump could “F” the federal government. That’s not what they’ve been doing.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2024

These blooms, regardless of size, contain harmful concentrations of microcystin, a potent liver toxin, and possible human carcinogen (cancer-causing substance) produced by certain kinds of algae. When it comes to these toxic algae blooms, even a “mild” or smaller bloom is bad news. These rules apply to manure as well as chemical fertilizers.

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MARCH 18, 2024

The CSDDD would require companies to conduct due diligence to identify and assess environmental and human rights issues across their value chain, and to take steps to prevent and eliminate them.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Human civilization is moving and with climate change and shifting water supplies, we face the greatest migration in human history. Parag Khanna: There are many drivers and they’re all in overdrive right now. You don’t see pixels that represent the geography of human beings and why we are where we are.

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