Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 6, 2022

Deadly heatwaves, extreme drought, food and water shortages, catastrophic flooding, rapidly intensifying tropical storms, raging wildfires—around the world, climate change is exacerbating extreme conditions and their harsh toll on people and ecosystems. The fearsome toll of climate impacts is already clear, leading U.N.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Climate change, one of the defining challenges of our time, demands multifaceted approaches to drive action and accountability. Two central players in this arena are climate litigators and United Nations (UN) climate negotiators.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 9, 2024

In a transformative moment for European and global climate litigation, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled today that the state has a positive duty to adopt, and effectively implement in practice, regulations and measures capable of mitigating the existing and potentially irreversible future effects of climate change.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 24, 2024

The Sabin Center has recently published two reports on the connection between climate change, health impacts, and State obligations under international law. The ICJ advisory opinion is one of multiple legal proceedings aimed at clarifying State obligations under international and human rights law with respect to climate change.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 7, 2024

Yet, both the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Paris Agreement treat the ocean primarily as a sink of instrumental value to the climate system. The opinion clearly states that complying with the Paris Agreement is not sufficient for compliance with UNCLOS (para.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Plans countries have submitted under the Paris Agreement would lead to an increase in overall emissions by 2030 and that trend desperately needs to be reversed. Corporate high emitters When a methane super-emitter is identified, the company or government who owns that site needs to take action. Science shows that keeping the 1.5

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 5, 2023

Governments are, it seems, beginning to listen to the growing chorus of scientists who have warned that deploying CDR is essential to avoid catastrophic climate change. Government funding for research and deployment of CDR is increasing. Yet, key issues around definitions, guidance, and climate governance remain.

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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. – Emissions trading as part of a portfolio of climate policies. Stay tuned. Download as PDF.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 10, 2024

Switzerland , the Grand Chamber established that climate change is “one of the most pressing issues of our times” and poses a threat to human rights. Notably, the Court responded to (and preempted) criticism as to the undemocratic role of courts in relation to climate change (paras. 410-414 and 449-451).

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 25, 2024

The next week has the potential to bring important developments for international governance of marine carbon dioxide removal (CDR). The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has concluded that CDR will be needed, alongside deep emissions cuts, to limit global warming to 1.5 seaweed) for carbon storage.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Below is a look at what tools are currently being used to facilitate justice for climate change on an international scale and where those mechanisms are falling short in ensuring transitional justice and a clean future. Unfortunately, when it comes to climate change, the truth is often obscured.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 24, 2023

Despite the ongoing debate on whether ITLOS has jurisdiction to issue an advisory opinion on climate change, if the Tribunal asserts jurisdiction (on jurisdiction, see here and here) , there is still much to uncover. However, ITLOS is not responsible for implementing the UNFCCC or the Paris Agreement.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Likewise, the country has started to implement programs to mitigate GHG emissions and to promote REDD+ projects , all intending to achieve climate-related goals. Colombia ’s Legal Climate Framework Colombia’s climate change laws are extensive and align with its open commitment to fight climate change and its devastating effects.

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Law Columbia

MAY 8, 2024

Lawyers, bar associations, and law societies have an important but not fully recognized role to play in achieving the net zero goal in the Paris Agreement. Climate Change as an Increasingly Common Feature of Law Practice Climate change is no longer an issue of concern only to environmental and energy lawyers.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

When thinking about global emissions, don’t picture an individual—point your finger at powerful corporations, specifically the 88 companies that are largely responsible for climate change. It can, and must, start now to meet the 2015 Paris Agreement goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degree C target within reach.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 28, 2024

Union of India (2024) is groundbreaking as it both recognizes environmental rights as absolute and fundamental, and offers a constitutional protection from the adverse effects of climate change under Articles 14 and 21 of the Constitution of India ( Constitution ).

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

As regular readers of this blog know, I am currently attending COP22 – the 22 nd Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) – in Marrakech. Much of the focus is on implementing the Paris Agreement , the landmark climate deal reached last year at COP21.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

When they converge on Glasgow this fall to rekindle pivotal global climate negotiations that were dampened during the pandemic, diplomats and government ministers will confront a world much changed since their last convention. Some have taken to calling the UN’s 26th climate convention the “adaptation convention.”.

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Energy and Climate Law

DECEMBER 8, 2020

This ruling was released in the context of a surge in climate litigation cases in France and all over world. For France, the “Affaire du Siècle” case was filed in the Administrative Court of Paris in May 2019 by four NGOs against the government for its failure to act on climate change.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 27, 2021

In that time climate change has gone from being a fringe issue to a global priority. President of the summit is the physicist and politician Alok Sharma MP , who previously served as business secretary in the UK government. C above pre-industrial levels within the next two decades. James McKenzie.

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HumanNature

APRIL 10, 2023

But this simplified pathway misses a key step in cloud formation–and one that could help us combat climate change. The Paris Agreement is an international treaty adopted at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in 2015, with the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 °C C temperature target.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 22, 2023

Both extreme heat and wildfires are directly linked to climate change. Since local and state governments are on the frontlines of paying for worsening wildfires, they should also be on the leading edge of holding fossil fuel companies accountable. The Guardian writes that 2023 will be a watershed year for climate litigation.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Guest Commentary: Indonesian Human Rights Commission’s first human rights complaint on the impacts of climate change. Indonesia’s climate change context. Climate change is already causing widespread environmental impacts in Indonesia. By Margaretha Quina and Mae Manupipatpong*.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

If policymakers can reduce short-term, high-impact heat-trapping gases such as methane we can limit warming and keep the Paris Agreement goals within reach. Of course, we also will have to make sharp cuts in CO2 emissions, the main driver of climate change. The planet has already warmed 1.1 degrees C by 2100.

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Environmental Europe

JULY 12, 2017

What is needed to make the Paris Agreement a success? But if there is no system to ensure that they are monitored and evaluated, the agreement will have very shaky legs. But if there is no system to ensure that they are monitored and evaluated, the agreement will have very shaky legs.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

I’ve just arrived in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, for the 27 th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change—the UN’s annual global climate conference, aka COP27. My UCS colleagues and I are here because global climate policy must be informed by and aligned with the latest science.

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Law Columbia

JULY 1, 2022

In Duarte Agostinho , six Portuguese youth filed a complaint against 33 countries alleging that the respondents violated petitioners’ human rights by failing to take sufficient action on climate change and requested EU member countries to take more ambitious domestic action. In PSB et al.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 26, 2022

The ruling was a landmark for climate litigation, demonstrating the potential power of the courts to help ensure a just climate future. In the year since, there have been even more important advances in climate litigation seeking to hold companies and governments accountable for climate harms.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 10, 2023

The fossil fuel industry is the problem, not the solution Despite their well-funded campaigns to convince us otherwise, here are five reasons why we need to be skeptical about fossil fuel industry engagement in global climate policy. Let’s start with the obvious: the burning of fossil fuels is the main driver of climate change.

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E2 Law Blog

MAY 7, 2021

April 2021 saw two major developments in climate change legislation in the EU and in Germany. These developments confirm that the goal of fulfilling the Paris Agreement and achieving climate neutrality by 2050 at the latest will increasingly shape EU and German law-making for the foreseeable future.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2021

As a government delegate, I have been involved in the UN climate negotiation process since 2017 to uphold Bangladesh’s and the Least Developed Countries (LDC) Group’s position. Article 6 is central to the Paris Agreement , and to make the Agreement fully operational these issues needed to be resolved.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

However, several analyses—including a recent one by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)—have concluded that the IRA, even when coupled with the bipartisan infrastructure act and other federal and state climate policies, will not be enough to meet US carbon emission reduction goals. trillion in avoided climate change-related damages.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Climate Finance is the Litmus Test for COP29 COP29 has been dubbed the “climate finance COP”. When countries signed the Paris Agreement back in 2015, they agreed to centre equity in how we tackle the climate crisis. This is a matter of justice, not charity. The next round is due in February 2025.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

We’ve been hearing a lot lately about geoengineering – the various scientific theories and governance ideas that could eventually lead to technological interventions to help cool the planet. Take this recent CNN story titled “Supporters of a controversial climate solution say it could be key. A weather balloon. If we overshoot the 1.5

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The 27 th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP27) in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, ended last Sunday, November 20, 1.5 Climate change related harms that are not avoided by adaptation are referred to as loss and damage. She writes here in her personal capacity. .

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Organizations delivered petitions to the Prime Minister’s Office today, asking that the federal government follow through on its COP26 promise to implement a strong, ambitious cap on oil and gas emissions . The federal government has still not released any details about how they plan on accomplishing their COP26 commitments.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 4, 2021

A federal court in Australia ruled that the government had a “duty of care” toward its young people to protect them from climate change. The judge used the Paris Agreement as the benchmark for setting the company’s obligations. This shareholder revolt seems to have been unprecedented in the company’s history.

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