A Greener Life

JUNE 24, 2022

Just months after my 32nd birthday in 2011, the world’s population reached 7 billion people. I had to wait 37 years of my life until the world finally agreed to a global climate deal with the Paris Agreement in 2015. When I was born in 1979 it had stood at 4.36

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Law Columbia

MAY 31, 2024

Background Immediately after the Fukushima nuclear accident in 2011, all nuclear power plants in Japan were shut down. The Paris Agreement was adopted in 2015 and entered into force the following year in 2016, with Japan also submitting its NDC. Additionally, some nuclear power plants had restarted operations.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 26, 2023

Backgrounds After the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011, all nuclear power plants in Japan were temporarily shutdown due to safety concerns. Kobe Steel Ltd., Background information about the general climate context and litigation in Japan is available in a previous blog post.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 4, 2024

The report also indicates that under current government policies, fossil fuel production will rise in the coming years, contrary to the Paris Agreement. The financial sector in Canada is happy to continue financing this runaway train to climate chaos.

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Edouard Stenger

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

More recently, another study showed it had to be done in OECD nations to comply with the Paris Agreement targets. A 2010 US study showed that stopping burning coal could be done by 2030 with renewables and energy efficiency. Are thorium or fusion credible solutions ? Perhaps in 10 or 20 years but we need to act NOW !

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Law Columbia

JUNE 16, 2021

hectares (the equivalent of 4,650 football fields) between 2011 and 2018. The petition also relies on the international climate change framework (the UNFCCC and the Paris Agreement, which have both been incorporated in Brazilian law). 225), the San Salvador Protocol (art.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 11, 2022

Firstly, Directive 2011/92 EU of the European Parliament and the Council on the environmental impact assessment of projects requires a mandatory environment (including climate) impact assessment for certain public and private projects (e.g., The dispute’s main focus was the negative impact on groundwater in the Czech Republic.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

As a result, voluntary approaches have dominated, such as the United Nations Global Compact. John Ruggie’s 2008 Framework imposes only a responsibility, not a legal duty, on companies to respect human rights. The Global Pact could change this.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Prior to the Paris agreement, nearly 200 countries signed the. Cancun Agreement. Cancun Agreement. The Cancun Agreement additionally acknowledges the possible need to further restrict global warming to 1.5 In November 2011, Carbon Tracker Initiative. pledged to withdraw from the Paris Agreement.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 12, 2023

remains a party to the UNFCCC , helped broker the Paris Agreement, and is till a party to that agreement today. 2011 Supreme Court decides AEP case, barring lawsuits against carbon emitters using the federal common law of nuisance. 2015 Paris Agreement adopted with strong U.S. 2020 U.S.

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

The appellate court found that the County was “well aware of the threat posed by climate change” when it certified EIRs in 2011 and that post-2011 data were “consistent with the range of projections considered in 2011.” argued that the agreements and related arrangements conflicted with and were an obstacle to U.S.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Department of State to produce correspondence of two officials related to climate change, the December 2016 Paris Agreement, the “legal form” of the Paris Agreement’s provisions, the Kyoto Protocol, and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 8, 2021

After concluding in 2011 that listing of the Pacific walrus was warranted due to threats that included sea-ice loss through 2100, the FWS issued a final decision in October 2017 that the Pacific walrus no longer qualified as a threatened species. The Court wrote, “The court acknowledges that RDS cannot solve this global problem on its own.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

FWS developed the interpretation in a 2011 “Polar Bear Memo” that addressed the determination of threatened status for polar bears.) The plaintiffs argue that the situation is worse for Peruvians born between 2005 and 2011, whose futures are severely compromised due to the climate crisis.

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Law Columbia

JULY 2, 2021

hectares (the equivalent of 4,650 football fields) between 2011 and 2018 in the Amazon, in violation of the right to a healthy environment guaranteed by the Brazilian Constitution. The MPF brought a tort case against de Rezende for causing the deforestation of 2,488.56

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2016

It was reckless for the Paris agreement to enter into force before the election,’ said the source, who works on Trump’s transition team for international energy and climate policy, speaking on condition of anonymity. [25]. 29, 2011), [link]. [30]. 25]. [26]. Pandy, supra. Inside Climate News (Aug. 18, 2015, 1:39 PM), [link].

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