Law Columbia

MARCH 29, 2023

The Republic of Vanuatu spearheaded this initiative in a 2021 announcement supported by grassroots youth groups. Part of the discussion on the need for an advisory opinion on climate change focuses on the possibility to interpret the obligations in the Paris Agreement and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2022

Despite being “energy independent” on a net basis, the US imported about 40% of the crude and petroleum products it consumed in 2021 and exported a similar amount. A recent UCS analysis examined pathways for meeting carbon reduction requirements in line with the Paris Agreement through 2050.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 20, 2021

During the three major UN climate summits in the past 12 years, Copenhagen in 2009, Paris in 2015 and now Glasgow in 2021 climate coverage and interest in the issue has accelerated in the run-up to the event. After Paris, it dropped and then plateaued due to the signing of the Paris Agreement.

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Energy and Climate Law

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

By Ceciel Nieuwenhout, Postdoctoral researcher at GCELS and City Council member for GroenLinks On 17 March 2021 the people of the Netherlands will elect a new House of Representatives ( Tweede Kamer) , which also kickstarts the formation process for a new government ( regering). This blog consists of three parts.

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Energy and Climate Law

JUNE 26, 2020

On 1 July the rotating presidency of the European Council is moving for one and a half years to Germany (1/July/2020), Portugal (1/January/2021) and Slovenia (1/July/2021). We take a look at their agenda and critically assess whether or not it can bring about a boost for the energy transition in times of COVID-19.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 23, 2021

A look back at significant decisions in climate litigation in 2021. 2021 was a significant year for climate litigation, with several decisions worldwide providing a fresh look at stakeholder responsibility for climate change. Perhaps the most significant decision in climate litigation in 2021 came from the Netherlands.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Representatives from civil society, non-governmental organizations and the private sector gathered alongside governmental representatives to influence decisions and advance contributions toward the goals of the Paris Agreement of 2015. I was joined by Ocean Conservancy colleagues working to advance ocean-climate action. Green Shipping.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

They apparently have not realised that both the UN climate panel and the professional communities in the USA and Europe have written a number of reports to do exactly that ( IPCC AR6 2021 , NCA 2017 , ESOTC2022 ). Hence my friend’s question about COP28. C above pre-industrial times in August, according to Copernicus.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 1, 2022

Further, the Act on Promotion of Global Warming Countermeasures (national legislation providing the general framework concerning the adoption and implementation of measures to combat global warming) was revised in May 2021. The revised Act explicitly included the pledge for net zero by 2050.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 26, 2024

Switzerland is a striking example of the Paris effect: the influence of the non-binding collective goals of the Paris Agreement (PA) on the interpretation of domestic constitutional law or international human rights law in climate litigation. 8 European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). 434, 455-456).

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Subsidies reached new highs in 2021, even before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a Climate Transparency analysis finds. The G20 group of nations provided nearly US$200 billion in support of fossil fuels in 2021, despite the worsening impacts of the climate crisis and their pledge in 2009 to phase out “inefficient” subsidies.

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HumanNature

MARCH 11, 2024

Sounding Green” has not only become politically correct, but also a possible finance-generating mechanism. Climate is a global issue and when complex political systems around the world are brought together, solutions cannot be straightforward. ” (2021). Developing countries need renewable energy investments of about US$1.7

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Law Columbia

APRIL 8, 2022

Second, it could influence decisions by administrative and judicial bodies, for example with regard to the approval of specific projects, such as oil and gas infrastructure and undertakings not in line with the Paris Agreement (see Section 3 below). In Neubauer, et al. The next hearing is scheduled for June 21, 2022 ( A Sud et al.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2022

In the 2015 Paris Agreement , Article 8 acknowledged the importance of L&D and the accompanying decision 1/CP.21 Arguments for a separate L&D financial vehicle gained strength in Glasgow (COP26, 2021), but disagreement persisted until the last-minute agreement to establish one at the end of last month’s COP27.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The superannuation agreed to a settlement agreement requiring implementation of a net-zero carbon footprint by 2050, as well as climate risk disclosure and portfolio transparency measures. Beneficiaries have asked their pension funds to respond with detailed, credible answers to climate-related questions by December 31, 2021.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 22, 2022

As noted at the end of last year, 2021 was significant for climate litigation, with several decisions worldwide providing a fresh look at stakeholder responsibility for climate change. In Germany, after the successful decision from 2021 in Neubauer et al. By Maria Antonia Tigre. Photo by Matt Palmer on Unsplash.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 17, 2021

OTTAWA | Unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People — With Canada’s 2021 federal election just five weeks away, a coalition of 34 Canada’s leading environmental organizations are calling on everyone in Canada to vote on September 20 — and when they do, vote for a green and just recovery from COVID-19.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 12, 2021

On October 8, 2021, at the HRC’s 48 th session, forty-three nations adopted resolution 48/13 , recognizing the right to a safe, clean, healthy, and sustainable environment as a human right. While the resolution is not legally binding, it represents a significant political statement that could shape global standards. Argentina et al.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Peterman, York College Of Pennsylvania This guest essay first appeared in the York Daily Record on December 8, 2021 -- I recently returned from the COP26 UN climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland. degree C of warming by 2100 as opposed to the Paris Agreement aspiration of 1.5 By Dr. Keith E. What can you do?

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 1, 2021

On October 26, 2021, Observatório do Clima (OC), a network of 71 civil society organizations, filed a class action at the federal court of Amazonas against the Environmental Ministry and Brazilian government ( Laboratório do Observatório do Clima v. To align itself with the Paris Agreement, Brazil should actually increase its ambition.

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Law Columbia

MAY 10, 2021

On April 29, 2021 the German Constitutional Court (the Bundesverfassungsgericht, or GCC) rendered a ground-breaking judgment, requiring the German government to establish specific plans to achieve its mid-century greenhouse gas emissions goal. (An By Jaap Spier [1]. An English press release is available here. threshold must not be passed.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 14, 2023

Most of the rhetoric and activity has occurred in the first two categories in the US, so we focus there, in an effort to differentiate political narratives from legal reality. Lurking behind this political fight, however, are links to fossil fuel lobbying groups and climate denial think tanks. Cases like Allied Tube Conduit Corp.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 19, 2023

Set to be built and funded by Chinese state-owned entities, recent developments have also raised fresh questions about China’s pledge – made at the UN General Assembly in 2021 – not to build any new coal power plants overseas. In 2021, China’s president Xi Jinping announced that China would not build any new coal-fired power projects abroad.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 28, 2023

in 2021, according to LinkedIn’s Green Skills Report. According to figures from the LinkedIn report, in 2021 there was a big jump in the number of job listings requiring green skills, with those ads accounting for half of the total, far more than the global average. The share of green employment in the global total rose from 9.6%

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 13, 2023

Those three alone borrowed more than $200 billion between 2016 and 2021. Since the adoption of the Paris agreement, JP Morgan Chase is at the top of the list of fossil fuel bankers, financing a staggering $434 billion from 2016 through 2022.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

When countries signed on to the 2015 Paris Agreement, they made initial voluntary commitments (the so-called Nationally Determined Contributions or NDCs) to reduce their heat-trapping emissions, and agreed to revisit them every five years to reflect the “highest possible ambition.” (see of the Paris Agreement ).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 17, 2023

C or less above pre-industrial levels is a cornerstone of the Paris Agreement—one that was hard won by an alliance of small island states and the least developed countries around the world who considered it to be a relatively sufficiently safe limit to future warming, given the existential threats they face. Why is 1.5°C C of warming?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Lest one thinks this disconnect is a failure of the global climate architecture, the failure lies much closer to home—in the domestic politics in the US and many other countries that continue to favor the interests of the rich and powerful , and fossil fuel companies, at the expense of the health and safety of everyone else and the planet.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Al Jazeera reports that the agreement was applauded for continuing the mission of the Paris agreement with hopes of limiting global warming at 1.5 What’s Up With Water – November 15, 2021 – This week’s episode cover’s a hunger crisis in Afghanistan and a project in New Jersey’s largest city to remove lead service lines.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 8, 2022

In 2021, EIA reported that coal generated 21.8 The coalition relied in part on UCS’s August 2021 Too Hot to Work report to make its case for stronger workplace protections. EN: Recent reports have found that the world is on track to surpass the Paris Agreement’s 1.5 The thresholds in the Paris Agreement—1.5

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 23, 2023

GW record from 2021. In 2021 alone, the plants slated for retirement emitted more than 28,000 tonnes of nitrogen oxides (NO x ), 32,000 tonnes of sulfur dioxide (SO 2 ), and 51 million tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ), according to EIA data. Compiled by UCS from Energy Information Administration data as of January 2023.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 6, 2022

Wildfires have broken out in Siberia , which is one of the fastest warming parts of the world and where hotter, drier conditions have fueled record-breaking fire seasons including in 2021. It is also a critical part of their commitments under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Agreement.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 30, 2022

Earlier this month the International Energy Agency (IEA) released data showing that global carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions hit an all-time high in 2021, rebounding sharply from the 2020 decline caused by COVID-19 related economic slump. It’s clear we cannot continue to live this way, it will destroy our civilization.”. Syria (with 6.8

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Arnold Porter

JULY 16, 2021

As summarized in our March 9, 2021 Advisory , the SEC’s efforts to standardize ESG disclosures commenced in earnest last year. The comment period ended on June 13, 2021, and the SEC reported receiving over 500 letters in response.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 18, 2022

In April 2021, a group of Czech citizens filed a case against the national government for its inaction on climate change. Therefore, the applicants sought protection against the alleged continuing “unlawful interference”, which should have commenced in 2017 when the Czech Republic became a party to the Paris Agreement.

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Greenbuilding Law

AUGUST 1, 2021

While the idea of ESG began in 2004 with a United Nations initiative to influence capital in non-Western markets, in 2021 the legal and political institutions in the United States and the EU are demanding those ideas be implemented by businesses posthaste.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 15, 2021

A G7 statement read: “We stress that international investments in unabated coal must stop now, and we commit now to an end to new direct government support for unabated international thermal coal power generation by the end of 2021.” ” .

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