Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2025

The request follows similar initiatives at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Seas (ITLOS, see here and here ), the International Court of Justice (ICJ, see here and here ), and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR, see here ). 4, African Charter), the right to health (art. 4, African Charter), the right to health (art.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 16, 2024

In both cases, the DOJ sided with local governments, arguing that their claims against fossil fuel companies for misleading the public about climate harms should proceed under state law. Shell case, for instance, the Dutch courts upheld the ruling that Shell must act to reduce emissions in line with the Paris Agreement.

2025

Law Columbia

JULY 15, 2025

For mitigation, States must: regulate, monitor and control, and require and approve environmental impact studies. Regulation includes defining a mitigation target, developing and implementing a rights-based mitigation strategy, and regulating the behavior of businesses.

Climate Change

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. Having been on the ground in Dubai last year and now in Baku for side talks on advancing methane regulations as part of the UCLA Emmett Institute’s delegation, I can confirm the atmosphere at COP29 was strange. In at least this respect, the future may not look so grim after all.

Paris Agreement

Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

This blog post was authored by 2024 Sabin Center Summer Intern, Arpana Giritharan, with input and supervision from Johanna Lovecchio, Director of Program Design for Climate Action and Adjunct Professor at Columbia Climate School, and Romany Webb, Deputy Director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law.

Carbon Dioxide

Circle of Blue

JULY 9, 2025

The Paris Climate Agreement seemed well-positioned to join the 1963 Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (halting atomic explosions above ground that contaminated the atmosphere) and the 1987 Montreal Protocol (ending use of chemicals that damaged the ozone layer) as one of the three most significant environmental treaties ever negotiated.

Clean Energy

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.

Paris Agreement

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 23, 2025

On Day 1 alone, President Trump issued executive orders declaring a national energy emergency , exiting the Paris Agreement , halting offshoreand some onshorewind development , unleashing American (fossil) energy , and expanding fossil fuel production in Alaska. Making it easier to use fossil fuels.

Fossil Fuels

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

Trump set in motion agency efforts to rollback all Biden-era environmental regulations relating to climate change. Key targets include regulations substantially limiting carbon emissions from coal-fired powerplants, cars, and trucks. Exiting the Paris Agreement. This was expected but nonetheless significant.

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

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

DECEMBER 26, 2024

Our audience isnt just people who live and breathe climate law. On the other hand, if you’re an environmental law student and you miss most of the answers, you might want to hit the books again. How did the EPA get its power to issue climate change regulations? Section 32 of the Paris Agreement.

Law

Legal Planet

MAY 14, 2025

One more reason were not ready for COP30 is that only 21 countries 11% of the parties have put forward new targets to cut greenhouse gas emissions through to 2035, as required by the Paris Agreement. So, with Trump pulling out of the Paris Agreement yet again, will California Governor Gavin Newsom go to COP30?

Paris Agreement

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Most of our work there related to side talks on advancing methane regulation (and our UCLA project on that topic ), but we also got a sense of how the central negotiations were unfolding. Advocates at COP29 in Baku call for more ambition My UCLA colleagues Ted Parson, JP Escudero and I just returned from Baku.

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. degrees C. (For

Sea Level

Energy and Climate Law

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Technically this shall be included in an amendment to the proposed Climate Law. This change shall facilitate two long-term obligations: achieving a climate-neutral Europe by 2050 and improving Europe`s contribution to the Paris Agreement. So, where exactly shall the additional emission reductions come from?

Paris Agreement

Climate Change Blawg

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Attorney, admitted to the Bar in New York and New Jersey, with a Certificate in International Law and an interest in Environmental Law and Human Rights. Falls Behind Majority of the World in Reducing CO2 Emissions: The Case for Rejoining the Paris Agreement. On November 4, […]. The post The U.S.

Paris Agreement

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

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

However, the Supreme Court found that the Spanish Government had complied with the Paris Agreement and the EU legislation. Background of Spanish Climate Policy In 2016, the EU ratified the Paris Agreement, which calls on Parties to submit their National Determined Contributions (NDCs) every five years. compared to 2005.

Paris Agreement

Legal Planet

MAY 5, 2022

Mexico’s climate commitment for 2030 under the Paris Agreement calls for cutting emissions 22%, cutting black carbon by half, and achieving net-zero deforestation. Recent changes in electricity regulation seem likely to increase the role of fuel oil in electricity production, which produces about 50% more carbon than natural gas.

Paris Agreement

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

In environmental law, we’re often operating at the limits of knowledge about the natural world and human behavior. It’s also difficult to predict the future of ecosystems, future energy prices, technological changes, and a host of other factors relevant to environmental law.

Paris Agreement

Law Columbia

MAY 8, 2024

Lawyers, bar associations, and law societies have an important but not fully recognized role to play in achieving the net zero goal in the Paris Agreement. Climate Change as an Increasingly Common Feature of Law Practice Climate change is no longer an issue of concern only to environmental and energy lawyers.

Paris Agreement

Law Columbia

MAY 22, 2024

On May 21, 2024, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) delivered a long-awaited Advisory Opinion on climate change and international law. To facilitate discussion and the exchange of ideas, the Sabin Center’s Climate Law Blog and Verfassungsblog are partnering on a blog symposium on the ITLOS opinion.

Climate Change

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

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

Law Columbia

MAY 24, 2024

A long-standing conundrum of international environmental law is that the territorially-based, sectoral legal structures we have created to address environmental issues do not match the interconnected, interdependent nature of ecosystems. But even from early on, they were not the sole locus of international climate law.

Paris Agreement

Law Columbia

APRIL 24, 2023

Applicable Law to the ITLOS Advisory Opinion The applicable law for the ITLOS advisory proceedings is determined by Article 293 of UNCLOS. However, ITLOS is not responsible for implementing the UNFCCC or the Paris Agreement. These rules are, in effect, binding norms incorporated into UNCLOS.

Climate Change

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. California has perhaps the most comprehensive protocols on offsets in the world, but this has not quieted concerns.

Government

Clean Energy Law

JUNE 23, 2021

With increasing pressure to fight climate change, scientists, and leaders agree that carbon capture, use, and storage (CCUS) is a cost-effective solution to meet emissions goals made under the Paris Agreement. .

Paris Agreement

Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Two thirds (65 per cent) support the government passing new sustainable finance regulations in the financial sector, with more preferring mandatory than voluntary regulations. The desire for mandatory regulations is driven by skepticism that financial institutions would respect voluntary regulations.

Regulations

Law Columbia

JUNE 4, 2024

Can the new advisory opinion interpreting the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) move us beyond the lethargy of unmet climate change policy needs ? By accepting the COSIS request, ITLOS boldly advanced the international law of climate change to take full account of its harmful impacts on the marine environment.

Climate Change

Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

The following article is part of an Eco-Perspective special in which the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law is collaborating with the VLS COP22 Observer Delegation. Like Article 13 of the Paris Agreement, transparency will help build trust among the parties. Vermont Journal of Environmental Law. By Miranda Jensen.

Paris Agreement