Legal Planet

MARCH 7, 2024

Duncan McLaren is an Emmett Institute Climate Intervention Fellow in Environmental Law and Policy Olaf Corry is Professor of Global Security Challenges in the School of Politics and International Studies at the University of Leeds, UK Download as PDF

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2019 Government Precautionary Principle Technology 334

Enviromental Defense

MARCH 17, 2023

It’s called the Precautionary Principle and it’s widely accepted in environmental law in Canada and well beyond. She pointed out that Big Plastic’s interpretation of the Precautionary Principle would make it meaningless. They say that federal regulation of plastics is merely political. But it’s not, either.

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Precautionary Principle Regulations Government Environmental Protection 98

Law Columbia

MARCH 21, 2022

The finding relied on (i) the reasonable foreseeability of the risk of death or personal injury through heat waves or bushfires, (ii) the precautionary principle, (iii) the special vulnerability of the children, (iv) their reliance on the Minister for protection, and (v) their innocence.

Climate Change 40

Climate Change Precautionary Principle Law 2021 40

Law Columbia

OCTOBER 18, 2022

ministries in this case) and not the general public, is a result of governmental political decision, not an exercise of public administration. This argumentation is based on the doctrine that the approval of various conceptual documents primarily addressed to public authorities (i.e.

Paris Agreement 40

Paris Agreement Climate Change 2030 Precautionary Principle 40

Law Columbia

MAY 10, 2021

is politically insufficiently ambitious, but such a choice remains within the significant discretion of the legislature (¶¶159-162). Last but not least: the precautionary principle requires that potentially colossal damage be averted. A swift political reaction. However, adopting a 1.5C to avoid passing the 1.5C

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2030 Paris Agreement Climate Change Precautionary Principle 44

Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

As water and water runoff does not respect political boundaries, international laws on conservation and use are common and applied, especially where there is shared use and responsibility or competing claims to it. Laws here apply to surface water such as rivers, lakes and oceans, floodwater and ice meltwater, groundwater and the water table.

Government 52

Government Law Waste Clean Air Act 52

Environmental Progress

MARCH 11, 2021

25] And that amount does not include the costs associated with local and state political opposition. But Breakthrough Energy calculated that the cost of new transmission, distribution, and storage would be $1.5 trillion. [25] 26] Local community and environmental opposition to transmission is a national and international phenomenon.

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Electricity Renewable Energy Nuclear Power 2019 105