Real Climate

AUGUST 13, 2021

The take-away message is: for high emissions we’d likely get close to a meter, sticking to the Paris agreement would cut that down to half a meter. Source: IPCC ( 2021 ) Figure 9.25. That we cannot turn this back is the reason why the precautionary principle should be applied to the climate crisis.

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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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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

AUGUST 11, 2022

Czech Republic v Poland (Mine de Turów, ECLI:EU:C:2021:420, ECLI:EU:C:2021:752, ECLI:EU:C:2022:74 ) concerned the operation of a lignite mine in Poland. In February 2021, the Czech Republic asked the CJEU for interim measures, requesting the immediate closure of the lignite mine. However, Poland did not comply with that order.

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