Climate Change Politics Precautionary Principle 
Legal Planet
DECEMBER 2, 2024
A new chapter of global climate accountability has hopefully begun, as the International Court of Justice (ICJ) prepares to issue an advisory opinion on the Obligations of States in respect of Climate Change. Hearings for that opinion began today with over 100 countries and other parties presenting over two weeks. L to R: Ms.
Legal Planet
SEPTEMBER 23, 2024
Existing global environmental governance institutions – even those designed to address climate change – are ill-equipped for such challenges. Political and social science must come to the fore to help develop effective responses to tipping events. Their impacts are distant in time and space from their causes.
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Law Columbia
MARCH 21, 2022
However, despite allowing the Minister’s appeal, the Court rejected the Minister’s argument that the primary judge made findings based on evidence of climate change that were unfounded. The decision has significant implications for future climate litigation claims in Australia.
Law Columbia
MAY 10, 2021
The judgment, in German, and an unofficial English translation, along with other documents, are available on the Sabin Center’s Non-US Climate Litigation Database, here.) Germany’s Federal Climate Change Act requires a 55% gradual reduction of German GHGs by 2030 and a reduction of 80-95% by 2050, compared to 1990. Background.
Enviromental Defense
MARCH 17, 2023
It’s called the Precautionary Principle and it’s widely accepted in environmental law in Canada and well beyond. She pointed out that Big Plastic’s interpretation of the Precautionary Principle would make it meaningless. They say that federal regulation of plastics is merely political. But it’s not, either.
Environmental Science
SEPTEMBER 7, 2018
Climate change : The process by which the climate changes due to “forcings”. As water and water runoff does not respect political boundaries, international laws on conservation and use are common and applied, especially where there is shared use and responsibility or competing claims to it.
Legal Planet
MAY 19, 2024
(credit: PBI Actuarial Consultants) Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, in coordination with an equally myopic and partisan Florida Legislature, has approved new state legislation ( HB 1645 ) that eliminates the term “climate change” from numerous existing Florida statutes that former Republican Governor Charlie Crist signed into law in 2008.
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