2025 Paris Agreement Politics 
Legal Planet
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
Project 2025 favors authoritarian presidential rule. Thus, the reasons must relate to psychology or political science, not philosophy. This research is suggestive, but my impression is that there is a lot we still don’t know about political psychology. It also wants to destroy environmental regulation, especially climate law.
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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Law Columbia
MARCH 10, 2025
ITLOS published its advisory opinion in May 2024, and the IACtHR opinion is expected later in 2025. Most participants agreed that greenhouse gas emissions must be reduced and urgent measures must be taken to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement. State Responsibilities in Climate Change: What Law Applies?
Law Columbia
MARCH 6, 2025
The plaintiffs claimed unlawful interference under the Code of Administrative Justice, given that the government had failed to take mitigation and adaptation measures as required under the Paris Agreement, resulting in harm to the plaintiffs human rights.
Legal Planet
MAY 9, 2022
Last year, climate negotiators in Glasgow finalized the Paris Agreement rulebook for international cooperation through carbon markets, clearing the way for the expansion of emissions trading and carbon pricing worldwide. – Continual reform to improve ambition, integrity, and buy-in. Focusing on data accuracy and MRV.
Law Columbia
MARCH 29, 2023
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). That initiative ultimately failed due to strong political opposition. What can we expect?
Legal Planet
DECEMBER 17, 2021
For two or three weeks, climate politics gets intense worldwide news coverage. This year’s meeting was also “CMP16” (the 16 th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol of 1997), and CMA3 (the 3 rd meeting of the Conference of Parties to the Paris Agreement of 2015). Then things move on.
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