Law Columbia

JANUARY 17, 2023

In December 2021, the Sabin Center launched the Peer Review Network of Global Climate Litigation (Network) , through which practitioners and scholars from the around the world act as “rapporteurs” for their jurisdictions, helping to update and maintain the Global Climate Change Litigation database (see also here and here ).

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AUGUST 15, 2023

A Montana state district court has issued its long-awaited decision in a major climate change case brought by Montana children against state officials. Judge Seeley did so after presiding over a two-week, non-jury trial in June 2023–the first such climate change trial in U.S. In Held v. legal history. The August 14th Held v.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Image by Danielle Anz It’s been three months now since 16 young plaintiffs suing the state of Montana for climate harms piled into a Helena courtroom so small that the attorneys worried whether everyone would fit. Montana was monumental for many reasons: it was the first-ever constitutional climate trial in the U.S.;

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Law Columbia

MARCH 29, 2023

Photo by Mathias Reding on Unsplash Climate change litigation has finally reached the world’s highest court. On March 29, 2023, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopted a resolution requesting an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the obligations of States with respect to climate change.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 8, 2022

The post also illustrates the positive impact the reform is likely to have on climate litigation initiatives in Italy. Adopting a comparative perspective, we draw on constitutional frameworks and recent climate litigation cases in other European jurisdictions. What does the reform bring about?

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Law Columbia

JULY 7, 2023

The Sabin Center for Climate Change Law posted its Winter/Spring 2023 Semi-annual Report, which includes a summary of the Center’s key activities between January and June 2023. Michael Burger was featured among the “Power Players in Climate, Energy and Sustainability” in Politics NY. It is available for download here.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 11, 2022

3/21, entitled Climate Emergency: Scope of Inter-American human rights obligations. The resolution’s purpose is to systematize the human rights obligations of States in the context of the climate crisis to ensure that public policy decisions are made according to a rights-based approach. Background. Substantive rights.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Exxon , the cities and towns allege that the fossil fuel companies were liable because they knowingly produced and marketed products that have caused climate change harms, while concealing and misrepresenting the associated dangers. and global climate litigation movement. Cities, counties, and states across the U.S.

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Law Columbia

JULY 3, 2023

The complaints focused on FIFA’s branding of the Qatar World Cup as a carbon-neutral event , which the NGOs alleged was a text-book example of greenwashing, i.e., deceiving the public into believing that an organization’s activities are environmentally friendly or do not contribute to climate change.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 20, 2024

In the March 6th vote to approve the SEC’s final climate disclosure rule , the Commissioners split along party lines, with the rule passing by a 3-2 vote. It is the second in a series of three blogs that address specific legal features of the rule. Commentators were offered an additional month to review and respond to the changes.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Guest Commentary: The Role of Human Rights Institutions In Tackling Climate Change: A Case Study of the Philippines. Maria Antonia Tigre, Global Climate Litigation Fellow, Sabin Center for Climate Change Law. In 2015, a series of particularly violent typhoons hit the Philippines. Introduction.

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OCTOBER 30, 2023

That litigation, which argues the decision was unreasonable and unlawful, is ongoing. About: ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCE is a leading Canadian advocacy organization that works with government, industry and individuals to defend clean water, a safe climate and healthy communities.

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JANUARY 26, 2024

This post is part of a series of quarterly roundups on scientific integrity. In the fourth quarter of 2023, the Biden administration finalized updated procedures for conducting cost-benefit analysis and encouraging public participation in meetings about regulations.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

In this series of blog posts, I want to closely examine the analysis undertaken by the courts in this case, because I think it has significant implications for how we understand the ways that CEQA works (and doesn’t work), and indeed for environmental review more broadly.

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Law Columbia

JULY 12, 2022

The first week of July 2022 brought on several major developments in climate litigation in the Netherlands, with possibly significant ramifications for a new type of global climate litigation. This time, the case relates to greenwashing advertisements involving misleading claims on climate action by carbon majors.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

As its abundant fresh water and temperate climate become more attractive to out-of-state farm companies, Michigan also is experiencing its own early confrontations over water supply and scarcity. Ready or not — the Great Lakes as a climate refuge. It is now a little closer to Nebraska’s border with Iowa. Carl Ganter / Circle of Blue.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

” Antonio Guterres, Climate Action Summit 2019. What makes the ISO 14000 series so important. ISO 14000 series. In summary, the ISO 14000 series gives guidance for organizations to design, implement, and optimize an Environmental Management System. The ISO 14000 series soon followed in 1996. More frequent.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The case is the latest on a growing climate litigation trend in Brazil. It contributes to increasing pressure against President Bolsonaro for widespread environmental damage across the country, resulting from a significant lack of climate action and the pervasive destruction of the Amazon rainforest. o C global warming scenario.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

There have been several dramatic advances in climate corporate accountability this month. California Sues Fossil Fuel Polluters California’s climate accountability lawsuit is groundbreaking in several ways: California is the first major fossil fuel-producing state to file a climate accountability lawsuit. California Gov.

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OCTOBER 12, 2022

As part of its ongoing investigation of fossil fuel industry climate disinformation, the US House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Reform released more than 200 pages of internal corporate documents last month that provide new evidence of industry deception.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

United Nations Human Rights Committee finds that Australia is violating human rights obligations towards Torres Strait Islanders for climate inaction. Yet climate change is severely impacting these low-lying island communities. By Maria Antonia Tigre. The Complaint.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 7, 2023

Attribution science , which is about understanding the role of climate change versus natural weather patterns and climate variability, can help us better understand the connections between extreme weather and climate change, provide new insight into what specific emissions are driving the worst impacts, and help shape climate solutions.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 16, 2023

But another major culprit is climate change, which has intensified the heat and drought that have always been factors in western North America. That climate change obviously didn’t just happen on its own. Ekwurzel was joined by Heede, then-UCS climate scientist Peter Frumhoff , and four other scientists. Licker et al.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

I’ve been thinking about the Berkeley Pit a lot lately as I’ve noticed growing attention in climate journalism and policy circles to one of the big policy hurdles for the clean energy transition: How will the U.S. Two years ago, the Biden administration passed historic climate laws that invest heavily in clean energy. manufacturing.

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MARCH 21, 2023

This is the first of a series of posts previewing the Emmett Institute’s 2023 Symposium , coming up on April 12. The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021 (IIJA) and the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA) represent a radical change in federal climate policy. Infrastructure to Meet Climate Goals —on Wednesday, April 12.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 23, 2022

As in previous years, climate-related shareholder proposals are on the agenda for Shell , ExxonMobil and Chevron , and climate advocates are urging major investors, including BlackRock , to vote for climate action. 2) Oil and gas companies are raking in record profits as Russia wages an unjust war in Ukraine. degrees Celsius.

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Law Columbia

MAY 10, 2021

The judgment, in German, and an unofficial English translation, along with other documents, are available on the Sabin Center’s Non-US Climate Litigation Database, here.) Germany’s Federal Climate Change Act requires a 55% gradual reduction of German GHGs by 2030 and a reduction of 80-95% by 2050, compared to 1990. Background.

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Clean Energy Law

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

State and federal officials move forward plans and policies for water conservation, conveyance, and climate resilience. The project, which is supported by Governor Newsom, seeks to safeguard California’s water supply against the challenges posed by climate change, sea-level rise, earthquakes, and extreme weather fluctuations.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 21, 2023

These pristine, ecologically unique landscapes are increasingly threatened by human-caused stressors such as greenhouse gas emissions, which contribute to the harmful impacts of climate change on people and the planet. Tackling the climate crisis requires a multifaceted approach.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The National Pork Producers Council litigation arises from an initiative measure–Proposition 12–that California voters passed overwhelmingly in 2018. Instead, the doctrine has been created–out of whole cloth–in a series of Supreme Court decisions over the years. The case is National Pork Producers Council v.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The firm has expertise in all real property matters, including full-service litigation and dispute resolution services, transactions, acquisitions, dispositions, leasing, construction, management, title insurance, environmental law, and redevelopment and land use.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2021

For earlier stories in the Tapped Out series, click here. Then came new conservation regulations and litigation that complicated USBR’s water obligations. Around the same time, the Klamath Tribes regained federal recognition and a series of court decisions reaffirmed their water rights in the region. By Jessica Fu, The Counter.

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JULY 16, 2021

While any new SEC rulemaking concerning climate-related disclosures likely would not take effect until 2022, below we provide recommendations that financial institutions should consider to prepare for a new ESG disclosure regime. Background.

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APRIL 29, 2024

The series is called “Ask a Scientist,” and the last one I wrote will run in mid-May.) See no evil I wrote more columns about ExxonMobil and its top executives than any other major source of climate lies. We do not support climate denial,” he replied. “We Rex Tillerson, ExxonMobil CEO from 2006 to 2016.

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APRIL 17, 2023

The appeals court ruled that the FDA needed to at least temporarily roll back a series of science-based regulatory decisions that the agency has made since 2016. It could make the approval of medications you and your loved ones need subject to the whims of future litigants. But this is not how things will end.

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APRIL 17, 2024

This post is part of a series of quarterly roundups on scientific integrity. The specter of constant litigation would severely hamper agencies’ ability to develop and adopt evidence-based regulations. But Climate Scientists are Still Under Attack. What’s Missing From Railroad Safety Data? Dead Workers and Severed Limbs.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 28, 2022

Regulators in New York require utilities to perform climate risk assessments. Supreme Court could transform federal climate regulation. The expansions to the cooling requirements will help keep our most vulnerable residents safe as we continue to see the impacts of climate change.”. Catch up on this 10 part series here.

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