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What do U.S. states do at a COP, anyway?

Legal Planet

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. The first is boosterism–which isn’t as silly as it may sound.

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‘Relevant Rules’ as Normative Environment: Harmony vs Cacophony in the ITLOS Advisory Opinion on Climate Change

Law Columbia

On 21 May 2024, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) delivered its much anticipated Advisory Opinion on Climate Change. For instance, Yemen has signed and ratified UNCLOS, but not the Paris Agreement. This is evident from the treaties ITLOS refers to.

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July 2017 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

Each month, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP (APKS) and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. and non-U.S. The California Supreme Court denied three petitions for review.

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Film review: An inconvenient sequel

Edouard Stenger

I saw last week An Inconvenient Sequel by Al Gore, the sequel of 2006 hit documentary, An Inconvenient Truth. Climate change is getting very scary these days. It is easy to despair, even more for Mr Gore who has been advocating climate change action since the 1970s. I have mix feelings about it. million people.

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Smoke in Our Eyes: National Park Grandeur Degraded by Global Warming

Union of Concerned Scientists

It was an apocalyptic encore of the worst-ever 2006 season that saw 9.9 Beth Pratt, the California regional executive director for the National Wildlife Federation, told the Guardian newspaper in April, “Yosemite is ground zero for climate change.” million acres burned. The odor of burnt wood saturated my nose.

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Al Gore: Action on climate is ‘unstoppable’, despite recent shifts in US policy

A Greener Life

That is Al Gores assessment of the potential impact of President Donald Trumps notice to withdraw the US from the Paris Agreement on climate change. However, Gore doesnt think this move will have as much impact on global climate action as some fear.