Legal Planet

MAY 5, 2022

Mexico is also highly vulnerable to climate change. What’s the state of climate policy in Mexico? The climate issue has to be placed in the broader context of Mexico’s situation. Because of its geography, Mexico is vulnerable to climate impacts.

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Law Columbia

MAY 22, 2024

On May 21, 2024, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) delivered a long-awaited Advisory Opinion on climate change and international law. This marks the first time that an international tribunal has issued an advisory opinion on State obligations regarding climate change mitigation.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 4, 2024

Can the new advisory opinion interpreting the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) move us beyond the lethargy of unmet climate change policy needs ? By accepting the COSIS request, ITLOS boldly advanced the international law of climate change to take full account of its harmful impacts on the marine environment.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

It also wants to destroy environmental regulation, especially climate law. There’s no logical connection between a belief in authoritarian government, upholding traditional hierarchies, and views about protecting the environment or the reality of climate change. Project 2025 favors authoritarian presidential rule.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Despite all the work, all the dedication, of thousands of people around the world, there’s a good chance we’ll blow past the Paris Agreement’s targets. There would be value in slowing down climate change even if we can’t change how bad it will ultimately get. Suppose we do miss those targets?

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Climate Change Blawg

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Falls Behind Majority of the World in Reducing CO2 Emissions: The Case for Rejoining the Paris Agreement. appeared first on Climate Change Blawg: Climate Change Law Blogs, News & Insights. Note you can also download this article as a Word Document or PDF with full footnotes/endnotes below the post.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Trading in disinformation In its climate lobbying report, ExxonMobil deemed 52 associations “aligned” for acknowledging the risks of climate change, publicly backing the Paris Agreement goal of limiting average global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius and taking steps to reduce carbon emissions.

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Climate Change Blawg

DECEMBER 29, 2024

Today, Gav Ward, a legal futurist and digital strategist, steps into this lineage with […] The post The Next Nikola Tesla or Marie Curie of Climate Change Legal Innovation? Gav Ward Proposes Global Law Approach appeared first on Climate Change Blawg: Climate Change Law Blogs, News & Insights.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2023

They’re also hoping to circumnavigate efforts to hold them accountable for their contribution to climate change. Of course, the earth’s climate doesn’t care if emissions are less “intense” relative to another company or production chain. billion last week. 2023 will be a crucial juncture in a long, bumpy trip.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 16, 2022

This is in total opposition to the US commitment under the Paris Agreement to achieve a 50-52 percent emissions reduction below 2005 levels by 2030, and net-zero by 2050. These projections show that without additional policies or incentives, the US is very much in danger of not meeting our climate goals.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

In this case, environmental and human rights organizations, including Greenpeace and Oxfam (“the plaintiffs”), had taken legal action against the Government of Spain, alleging inadequate action on climate change. However, the Supreme Court found that the Spanish Government had complied with the Paris Agreement and the EU legislation.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Climate change is well understood in some ways, but it will set off a chain of reactions that we only partly understand. It’s also difficult to predict the future of ecosystems, future energy prices, technological changes, and a host of other factors relevant to environmental law.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 4, 2022

The Institute for Legal Reform, focused on tort reform, and the Chamber Litigation Center, which represents the Chamber in its many filings against environmental regulators and advocacy groups and has attacked climate accountability litigation , are both headed by the Chamber’s general counsel. The organization received between $2.5

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Even if the resolution is adopted, it would not be binding in the same way as a formal international agreement, but it could still impact how countries regulate marine 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

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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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Law Columbia

JUNE 15, 2024

On 21 May 2024, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) delivered its much anticipated Advisory Opinion on Climate Change. For instance, Yemen has signed and ratified UNCLOS, but not the Paris Agreement. This is evident from the treaties ITLOS refers to. Why is this important?

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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. Implications for China.

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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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Clean Energy Law

JUNE 23, 2021

With increasing pressure to fight climate change, scientists, and leaders agree that carbon capture, use, and storage (CCUS) is a cost-effective solution to meet emissions goals made under the Paris Agreement. .

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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2025

History of the Case Background to the Claim In April 2021, a group of plaintiffs led by the Czech Climate Litigation Association ( Klimatick aloba R ), and including a municipality and several individuals, filed a case against the central government of the Czech Republic and four subsidiary ministries for their inaction on climate change.

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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

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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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 15, 2021

That’s because the Canadian agency that is supposed to inform public and private sector decision-making on energy development and climate action continues to provide scenarios that are both unrealistic and pessimistic, and are lacking critical information, such as Canada’s expected greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs).

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 4, 2024

In part one of this series we introduced you to the huge role that the Canadian financial sector plays in exacerbating the climate crisis. Climate change could have some very significant negative impacts on the Canadian economy, and therefore your money. In this blog, we’ll discuss how climate change poses a risk to finance.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 18, 2021

In 2019 and again in 2020 , Shell found that CAPP was out of step with Shell’s principles because of lack of support for the Paris Agreement and climate policies such as carbon pricing. Here are three ways Shell’s climate principles are just greenwashing: . and Canada achieving net-zero emissions by 2050.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

In this blog post, we will briefly explain (i) the background of climate change laws in Colombia, (ii) the nature and reach of the ‘ Acción de Cumplimiento ,’ and (iii) the two judgments and their implications for climate action in Colombia. Decree 298 of 2016 on the National Climate Change System.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 20, 2022

At COP27 this November in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, a call to action to shift all capital for climate came into the spotlight. C) of the Paris Agreement has significant implications for how the global financial system works and will be a centrepiece of the coming years. C) of the Paris Agreement. Article 2.1(C)

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Law Columbia

JULY 1, 2022

While the United States Supreme Court yesterday delivered a major setback to the EPA’s ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions in West Virginia. EPA , courts in other countries this week have issued decisions that demonstrate that courts worldwide remain an important forum for the potential advancement of climate rights.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 25, 2024

Canada promised to cut its greenhouse gas emissions after the 2016 Paris Agreement. It was part of the global agreement where 195 countries all agreed to reduce their emissions, and Canada has set this promise into law. Why financial regulation? The government sets regulations to keep Canadians safe.

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 18, 2023

Canada finally has an all-star team ready to tackle the biggest gap in Canada’s climate plans: regulations that align Canada’s financial system with climate action. Canada’s financial system is under-regulated on climate change. We have the opportunity to create a safe climate and stable economy.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 24, 2022

Although Canadian financial institutions have taken baby steps to advance climate-aligned finance, regulations still lag behind international best practices. Canada’s financial sector continues to worsen the effects of climate change and create systemic financial risks.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 14, 2021

They are among the worst in the world, pumping $727 billion into fossil fuels since the Paris Agreement was signed, while scoring among the lowest on having policies to rectify this. Scotiabank CEO Brian Porter has also personally served as a cheerleader for oil interests, arguing for more pipelines and less regulation.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 1, 2022

This will be the first climate change case heard before the Supreme Court. Through May 2022, all existing climate litigation cases in Japan concern the construction or operation of coal-fired power plants and refer to citizens’ attempts to stop the use of coal. Japan’s climate change context. Civil law cases.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Two thirds (65 per cent) support the government passing new sustainable finance regulations in the financial sector, with more preferring mandatory than voluntary regulations. The desire for mandatory regulations is driven by skepticism that financial institutions would respect voluntary regulations.

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Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

If all politics are local, but greenhouse gases find their way into the atmosphere’s international space, how can the global community act collectively on climate change? The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) declared climate change a “common concern of mankind,” and committed 166 countries to tackling it.

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