Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

He personally intervened to help negotiate the Paris Agreement. And he withdraw from the Paris Agreement. Joe Biden’s climate presidency Under Biden, Congress enacted three laws providing hundreds of billions of dollars to fund clean energy — the 2022 infrastructure law, the CHIPS Act, and the Inflate Reduction Act.

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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.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 30, 2021

In another key political development, Democrats won both of Georgia’s Senate runoff elections, given the Democrats working control of the Senate by the tiniest of margins. trillion infrastructure law , of which about half is new funding. The continuing pandemic sometimes makes it feel like time is frozen. Legislation.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 18, 2024

Incorporating International Climate Change Law to Maintain the ECHR’s Relevance Amid the Climate Crisis “Everything could be different – and yet there is almost nothing I can change.” C ategorical differences between KlimaSeniorinnen and Court’s existing environmental case law ‘KlimaSeniorinnen’ had thus exhausted all domestic remedies.

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

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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.

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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.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 9, 2023

With the help of dramatic personal intervention by Obama, what came instead was the Copenhagen Agreement, a non-binding framework that called for developed countries to submit their own emission targets. Many observers had completely written off Congress as a player in climate policy due to political gridlock.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 18, 2024

These debates were the focus of the Emmett Institute’s all-day symposium on Friday, March 8 at the UCLA School of Law. California values and laws have come a long way since 1849 no doubt, but the adverse risks of a new gold rush remain. UCLA Law Professor William Boyd began Panel One with some staggering numbers.

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Legal Planet

JULY 24, 2023

The underlying theory is that Congress probably would want to decide rather than delegate “an issue of vast economic and political significance” to the executive branch. The exact contours of the MQD are still unclear, but the upshot is a restriction on dramatic administrative actions that lack clear congressional authority.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

We see here that the political economy in both countries is shifting in directions ever more favorable to this move to rapid renewable energy deployment. Some analysts are predicting that as China’s rate of renewable energy deployment exceeds the rate of energy demand growth it will lead to reduced USE of coal-fired power plants.

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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.

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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

AUGUST 9, 2023

One year on, we have a clearer picture of what we vaguely knew already: the biggest-ever climate law and its robust tax incentives is igniting the clean energy transition but is not moving us off fossil fuels fast enough. That’s a political question as we approach an election year and that’s where I’m going to start.

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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.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Coal clearly does not have the same clout as oil and gas, either in domestic politics or international negotiations. This group of nearly all the world’s nations says that it: [R]ecognizes the need for deep, rapid and sustained reductions in greenhouse gas emissions in line with 1.5 °C Transportation.

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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?

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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.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 22, 2023

degrees Fahrenheit) is no longer feasible, and emphasized that if we move faster, we can keep it as far below 2 degrees C as possible—the fallback target in the Paris Agreement. The IPCC could have declared that limiting average global temperatures to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 In fact, it sort of did. “In

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Law Columbia

APRIL 17, 2024

Solar PV Project in Cuba (Photo credit: IRENA ) Today, the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law and Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) jointly published a new report titled Building a Cleaner, More Resilient Energy System in Cuba: Opportunities and Challenges. Since 2000, Venezuela has been Cuba’s primary source of imported oil.

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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.

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

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Ocean Conservancy

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Through a changing administration, an ongoing global pandemic and a tumultuous political environment, we at Ocean Conservancy have never lost sight of our goal of a healthy and resilient ocean that supports us all. Rejoining the Paris Agreement and Making Waves at COP26. voters supporting participating in the agreement.

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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

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Sam, can you give us a brief overview of the highlights of the infrastructure law and the IRA? After the law was passed in August, companies ranging from solar panel maker First Solar to battery maker LG Energy Solution have announced billions of dollars of manufacturing plans, and industry experts predict many more deals are in the offing.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Confirming initial projections when the law was passed, models now predict that IRA will significantly cut emissions by 2030. Federal subsidies create new national political dynamics. My last blog post looked at some of the steps taken to implement the Inflation Reduction Act. The impact by 2035 is likely to be even greater.

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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. .

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Legal Planet

MAY 19, 2021

Many more states saw progressive signaling in favor of emissions reductions by their governors committing the state to the Paris Agreement or joining RGGI, the carbon trading scheme in New England and the mid-Atlantic. Support for renewable energy crossed the partisan aisle, a rarity in today’s highly polarized politics.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 3, 2024

Congress passes intentionally vague laws that delegate decision-making over a given issue to a federal agency,” the document reads. McNamee is an energy and regulatory attorney at the McGuireWoods law firm who has represented natural gas and electric utilities.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 10, 2022

Very soon, President Biden is expected to sign into law a budget reconciliation bill with historic climate provisions. Nevertheless, given the steep political obstacles along the way, the final bill is imperfect. Writing these words brings an almost surreal mixture of sheer joy and relief that I know many of you share.

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HumanNature

MARCH 11, 2024

Sounding Green” has not only become politically correct, but also a possible finance-generating mechanism. Climate is a global issue and when complex political systems around the world are brought together, solutions cannot be straightforward. But the problem is that as of today, such instruments or institutions hardly exist.

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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.,

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The court ruled that the failure to set specific mitigation measures to slow climate change, in accordance with the state’s obligations under European and international law, is unlawful and infringes the plaintiffs’ right to a favorable environment. 2022 Prague Municipal Court Decision.

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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.

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Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

The Top 10 Environmental Watch List is not about politics on its face, but as any 1L taking Constitutional Law can tell you, law and politics are fruit of the same tree. But Earth is indifferent to political shifts or election timelines, and climate change is teetering at its catastrophic tipping point.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 20, 2022

He took the US back into the Paris Agreement, and pledged to slash 2005 carbon emissions in half by 2030. In contrast, while Trump was able to get some Obama regulations reversed by using the Congressional Review Act, the public lands and pollution regulations involved were relatively minor.

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DECEMBER 8, 2022

Looking broadly at the weakness, dissembling, and comforting delusion on these matters related to emissions may suggest that possibility of deep structural weaknesses in the whole approach being taken in international climate law. They are thus likely to be less effective in reducing global emissions than they otherwise could be.

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