Legal Planet

MARCH 7, 2024

In the last weeks, diplomats from all over the world were negotiating more than twenty draft resolutions at the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA). The Assembly is a biennial intergovernmental meeting which sets the global environmental agenda.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 18, 2024

Hosted by Environmental Defence Contact: Lauren Thomas, media@environmentaldefence.ca Talk: Plastic Pollution on the Frontlines: Stories from Turtle Island Wednesday, April 24 from 12:00 – 2:00 pm Hosted by Environmental Defence Contact: Lauren Thomas, media@environmentaldefence.ca Panel: Toxic Chemicals in Plastics, Public Health and the (..)

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 18, 2024

Hosted by Environmental Defence Contact: Lauren Thomas, media@environmentaldefence.ca Talk: Plastic Pollution on the Frontlines: Stories from Turtle Island Wednesday, April 24 from 12:00 – 2:00 pm Hosted by Environmental Defence Contact: Lauren Thomas, media@environmentaldefence.ca Panel: Toxic Chemicals in Plastics, Public Health and the (..)

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Acoel

JUNE 3, 2021

Parties to the agreement agree to be guided by 11 principles, including the principles of non-regression and progressive realization, the preventative principle, the precautionary principle, and the principle of intergenerational equity.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 22, 2021

As part of its consideration, the court emphasized the need for the government to uphold the precautionary principle of protecting the rights to life, sustainability, and dignity of communities surrounding the project areas.

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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. Following their logic, we might be able to get a handle on plastic pollution by the year 3000.

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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.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 24, 2023

Despite this limitation, Judge Wolfrum noted in his separate opinion that the precautionary approach is enshrined in Article 194(2) of UNCLOS as customary international law ( p.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 11, 2022

Since the dispute ended with a settlement and the withdrawal of the complaint, it is unknown whether the CJEU would have shared the AG’s opinion. 71-72 ).

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Following the precautionary principle, citizens have the right to be concerned about the quality of their environment and do not have to wait for climate conditions so unfavorable that they do not allow their basic needs of life to be met. The court defined the right to a favorable environment (included in the Czech constitution, art.

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Law Columbia

MAY 10, 2021

Last but not least: the precautionary principle requires that potentially colossal damage be averted. In many countries, such as the Small Island States, Bangladesh, and the Philippines, adaptation is not the answer. If possible at all, these countries do not have the funds to take the necessary measures. to avoid passing the 1.5C

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Since 1981, cost-benefit analysis (CBA) has been at the core of the rule making process. OIRA, the so-called “regulatory czar” in the White House, must approve every significant regulation based on a review of its CBA. But CBA has had a major blind spot.

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Dario Piselli

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

In recent years, and with growing intensity since the adoption of the Paris Agreement, the concept of environmental health has emerged as a fundamental prism through which to analyse the complex interplay between global health and environmental law.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Precautionary Principle : Often a hot topic and subject to furious debate, this international standard promotes the concept through The Rio Declaration that to protect an environment, a precautionary approach must be applied according to their capability.

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Environmental Progress

MARCH 11, 2021

Neidell, Shinsuke Uchida, and Marcella Veronesi, “Be Cautious with the Precautionary Principle: Evidence from Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident” (Working Paper 26395, National Bureau for Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, MA, October 2019), [link] [25] Breakthrough Energy Sciences, “Modeling Clean Energy for the U.S.,”

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Petitioners allege that respondents have failed to prevent foreseeable human rights harms caused by climate change by making insufficient reductions to greenhouse gas emissions.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 8, 2024

As we wrote in part 1 , a Swiss-led proposal to the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA) to establish an expert group on solar radiation management (SRM) proved divisive and was eventually withdrawn. Here we explore why, and what that means for any global conversation about SRM.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Supreme Court of Mexico Rejected Ethanol Fuel Content Hike, Citing Precautionary Principle and Right to a Healthy Environment. The Court concluded that the precautionary principle and the right to a healthy environment require consideration of ethanol’s environmental risks, including its contributions to greenhouse gas emissions.

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Environmental Europe

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Layzer contends that US Conservatives have thus “created a storyline that undermines the environmental narrative by discrediting environmentalists and furnishing a principled basis for disputing their claims”. [2] 2] Examples of such principled opposition include calling for the respect for property rights (v.

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