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.

Paris Agreement

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

from the Paris Agreement again. EPA’s Super Emitter Program –a program that we hope will survive the current political turbulence. Maybe the main contribution of this COP –ironically, the place for climate diplomacy- could be the certainty that relying on politics as the only solution is no longer possible.

Paris Agreement

Law Columbia

JANUARY 24, 2025

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. For obligated funds those which are the subject of a signed grant agreement there is little context to go on within the EOs text.

Paris Agreement

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.

Paris Agreement

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. Meanwhile President Trump has begun the process of the U.S. Mary Nichols: Its not just Trump either.

Paris Agreement

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

This is an area where state-level action and grassroots politics could help push back. Exiting the Paris Agreement. Political action is key here. Those communities already have higher pollution levels and higher death rates than average, something Trump seems happy to allow. This was another expected action.

Paris Agreement

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

A Greener Life

JANUARY 28, 2025

It has been hailed as the biggest and most significant policy framework ever approved in the US political system. Clean energy and clean tech solutions had come such a long way that it was much easier politically and economically for the Biden Administration to scale in the adoption of solar, wind, electric vehicles (EVs) and so on.

Clean Energy

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.

Paris Agreement

Legal Planet

JANUARY 15, 2025

Whats your assessment of the law at this point? Which parts of the law have the greatest positive impacts? As that goes to show, politics can outweigh constituent interests. With that as background, this is a write-up of our conversation. Wolfram: I think the topline assessment of our research still holds.

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. Which is why Dan McCarthy at Canary Media calls it “a law not of creation but of destruction.” “I think this reduction in staff is going to have echoes for years to come,” Dreyfus said. It’s future ones too.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 21, 2025

As a Senate committee prepares to question Rollins at her confirmation hearing this week, they should take a hard look at her record, which includes far more anti-science rhetoric, inflammatory political statements, and ties to polluting industry than demonstrated interest and expertise in agriculture or food policy.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Second, the US political context makes resolving these finance questions much more difficult. With a Harris term on the horizon, the US delegation could have made credible pledges and exercised the usual levers of diplomatic pressure to persuade others to do the same.

Paris Agreement

Legal Planet

JULY 31, 2025

EO 14308: Empowering Commonsense Wildfire Prevention and Response (various measures addressing wildlife prevention and response) EO 14304: Leading the World in Supersonic Flight (repealing prohibition on overland flights by SSTs) EO 14303: Restoring Gold Standard Science (imposing various requirements such as reproducibility, best available science, (..)

Endangered Species Act

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

In the study, we found that political power dynamics shape international negotiations, that the Paris Agreement temperature goal doesn’t fully account for the dangers of sea level rise, and that climate justice requires fully considering diverse views and experiences of climate change.

Sea Level

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

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. –Sean Post, JD 2022. –Polina Hristova, LLM 2022.

Climate Change

Legal Planet

APRIL 13, 2023

The most emblematic decision came from the Federal Supreme Court, the highest Court in the Brazilian legal system, which ruled in July 2022 that the Paris Agreement is a human rights treaty. The Brazilian court became the world’s first to give this status to the Paris Agreement, setting an important precedent for Brazil and the world.

Climate Change

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The Decision text of COP26 completed the Rulebook by resolving sticky issues on fundamental norms related to carbon emission markets under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (PA). Article 6 is central to the Paris Agreement , and to make the Agreement fully operational these issues needed to be resolved.

Paris Agreement

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Photo credit Alexandra Gay, member of the UCLA Law delegation that year. The core of this gathering is the yearly “conference of parties” (or COP) of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and its related implementing protocols, including the Kyoto Protocol and, most recently, the Paris Agreement.

Climate Change

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.

Paris Agreement

Law Columbia

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). That initiative ultimately failed due to strong political opposition. But a lot has changed since then.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The UNFCC Paris Agreement , for example, proposed that the global community would work together to limit the Earth’s temperature warming by 1.5°C It’s also worth noting that climate goals have historically been established when political and fossil fuel industry power was central to how negotiations operate.

Fossil Fuels

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. – Continual reform to improve ambition, integrity, and buy-in.

Government

Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

There are several problems with this false dichotomy: Entrepreneurs behind private startups like Make Sunset are wildly different from the scientists and environmental law experts who study geoengineering. degree Celsius targets set by the Paris Agreement, what other policies are available? If we overshoot the 1.5

Fossil Fuels

Law Columbia

MAY 15, 2024

This violation was attributed to the Swiss government’s failure to implement the robust regulatory framework necessary for fulfilling its commitment to reduce emissions as set out in the Paris Agreement. To date, 59 countries , including 25 ECHR signatories, have enacted climate framework laws.

Climate Change

Law Columbia

JULY 24, 2025

In the most significant development in international climate law since the adoption of the Paris Agreement, the ICJ outlined numerous obligations that could significantly shape the contours of international environmental law and global climate governance.

Climate Change

Legal Planet

JUNE 4, 2021

The judge used the Paris Agreement as the benchmark for setting the company’s obligations. On the opposite side of the world, a Dutch court mandated a 40% cut over the next ten years in carbon emissions by Shell Oil, including the emissions resulting from the ultimate use of its oil and gas.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 16, 2022

This is in total opposition to the US commitment under the Paris Agreement to achieve a 50-52 percent emissions reduction below 2005 levels by 2030, and net-zero by 2050. This year’s projections are a bit grim.

Natural Gas

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 17, 2021

For two or three weeks, climate politics gets intense worldwide news coverage. This year’s meeting was also “CMP16” (the 16 th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol of 1997), and CMA3 (the 3 rd meeting of the Conference of Parties to the Paris Agreement of 2015). Then things move on.

Paris Agreement

Law Columbia

JUNE 1, 2022

Article 2 (2) of the Act further states that citizens, the State, local authorities, business operators, and other private organizations must cooperate to achieve net zero and the objectives laid down in Article 2 (1) (a) of the Paris Agreement. Civil law cases. In September 2017, in Sendai Citizens v. Kobe Steel Ltd.,

Paris Agreement

Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Presumably Dagsvik and Moen are used to this kind of model, but they seem to be inexperienced with the models used for weather and climate, which on the other hand are based on the laws of physics. We know from previous experience that it is likely that such cases will be used uncritically and selectively for political and economic goals.

Sea Level

Enviromental Defense

MAY 31, 2022

To help voters determine which candidates would deliver the needed course correction, Environmental Defence and its allies in the Ontario Priorities Working Group asked each of the province’s major political parties whether – and how – they would deliver the rapid emissions reductions Ontario will need to head off climate catastrophe. .

Climate Change

Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

The following article is part of an Eco-Perspective special in which the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law is collaborating with the VLS COP21 Observer Delegation. If all politics are local, but greenhouse gases find their way into the atmosphere’s international space, how can the global community act collectively on climate change?

Paris Agreement

Law Columbia

APRIL 26, 2024

Switzerland is a striking example of the Paris effect: the influence of the non-binding collective goals of the Paris Agreement (PA) on the interpretation of domestic constitutional law or international human rights law in climate litigation. 8 European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). 434, 455-456).

Climate Change

Legal Planet

JUNE 8, 2023

Moreover, it is important for regional or national governments to prioritize meeting the targets set by the Paris Agreement, supporting cities in their efforts. This target has been incorporated into the National Climate Agreement, a binding law that ensures political commitment to implementation.

Nitrogen Oxides