Law Columbia

APRIL 4, 2024

National governments are the most important systemic actors in the governance of climate action, primarily because they are the only actors with the ability to adopt economy-wide decarbonization measures. Over 80 government framework cases have been filed around the world, using a wide variety of legal and factual arguments.

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Clean Energy Law

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Green , and James Bee On 18 December 2023, the UK government announced a proposal for a new carbon border adjustment mechanism (UK CBAM). The UK ETS puts a price on greenhouse gases emitted by domestic producers, through a “cap-and-trade” system, in which total carbon emissions and allowances under the scheme are capped.

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Greenbuilding Law

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Governments across the United States are for the first time regulating greenhouse gas emissions. This entirely new and emergent body of law in response to climate change is bursting onto the scene in 2024 and businesses are beginning to monetize it as a new revenue stream. Moreover, at least 195 countries (.

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Greenbuilding Law

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Earlier this year, the EPA issued a notice of proposed rulemaking that would amend provisions in its Greenhouse Gas Reporting Rule altering data collection including expanding the confidentiality of data collected. Then last month, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed the Delete Act overhauling the State’s data broker law.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

The California Legislature recently enacted, and Governor Gavin Newsom last week signed into law, two major housing reform measures. SB 9 and SB 10 represent California’s most transformative new housing laws in decades, and are a belated but welcome legislative response to the state’s longstanding housing crisis.

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Manning Law

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Yesterday, the Canadian Government introduced legislation, the Canadian Net-Zero Emissions Accountability Act , to achieve Canada’s goal of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. The Act will do the following: Legally bind the Government to a process to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. Read Bill C-12 at this link: [link].

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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). But in-ocean research could implicate various international and domestic laws that might affect whether, when, where, and how projects take place. seaweed) for carbon storage.

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Greenbuilding Law

APRIL 17, 2022

With legislation that became law last week, without the Governor’s signature, Maryland has enacted the most rigorous state law in the country reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and otherwise addressing ESG stewardship including climate change. only days from now). only days from now).

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

As more local governments in California and around the country develop robust climate action plans–and as federal action to reduce emissions remains unpredictable as ever–it is increasingly clear that local strategies will be a key driver of decarbonization and resilience. . 30), which voters statewide rejected.

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Legal Planet

MAY 9, 2022

As of 2021, 30 emissions trading systems were in force globally, covering 16 – 17 % of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. As a compromise, California law (AB 398) has limited offsets to 4% of compliance obligations for the 2021-2025 period and capped the offsets without in-state benefits that can be utilized for compliance. .

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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 and Environment

MAY 23, 2023

The federal government has enacted a slew of policies meant to lower the cost of clean hydrogen and address other market pressures. The federal government is beginning to roll out many of those critical programs. Those policies invest significantly in developing clean hydrogen at scale. kilograms CO 2 e per kg of hydrogen.

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Greenbuilding Law

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

The country that is home to some of the most iconic buildings erected by humankind, from the Eiffel Tower to the Notre Dame Cathedral and the Palace of Versailles is failing its current inhabitants and decimating residential real estate with deeply flawed greenhouse gas emissions standards for rental properties. worse than G).

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Greenbuilding Law

AUGUST 7, 2022

As governments enact mandatory greenhouse gas emission laws and as businesses voluntarily make “net zero” pledges, we are increasingly working with organizations, first to understand and calculate their GHG emissions, then to implement strategies for efficacious yet frictionless reductions. Air conditioning and refrigeration.

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Legal Planet

MAY 16, 2023

In the past two years, however, the things have started trending upward after years of inaction by conservative governments. As in the US, Australia’s climate policy was long a victim of a lengthy period of divided government and political upheaval. As in the United States, state governments made some effort to pick up the slack.

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Manning Law

JUNE 15, 2022

Under most emissions trading systems, regulated industries, which fail to meet their greenhouse gas emission target must make up the shortfall either with a punitive payment or by purchasing emissions trading credits. Manning Environmental Law is a Canadian law firm based in Toronto, Ontario.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 2, 2023

The prospect of climate interventions, particularly SAI, might offer large reductions in climate-change risks that are not possible through emissions cuts, adaptations, or atmospheric removals alone, but also raise serious new uncertainties, risks, and governance challenges. This may be on the cusp of changing, but it hasn’t yet.).

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Greenbuilding Law

MAY 1, 2022

With the federal government and state of Maryland each having announced within days of each other, the mandated disclosure of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, we have received, maybe not surprising, many calls in the last two weeks inquiring “what are GHGs?” greenhouse gas emissions from human activities. emission trends.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Achieving climate goals requires significant investments in clean energy, transportation, and other climate technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and remove carbon from the atmosphere.

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Greenbuilding Law

JANUARY 22, 2023

It would be one thing if this topic was only prospective, about leases to be entered into in the future, but the reality is there are very large numbers of existing leases including with renewal terms that are for premises that will be regulated by emergent greenhouse gas emission disclosure and reduction statutes, rules, and regulations.

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Greenbuilding Law

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

At a time when government is mandating building owners drastically reduce GHG emissions and plug loads account for as much as 50% of energy consumption in offices, when building occupants are put on an energy diet will charging smartphones be banned from the office? Given that more than 3.5 yes, the U.S.

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Greenbuilding Law

JANUARY 29, 2023

This blog post is a compilation of responses to the top 10 questions from our webinar last week, “ Does Your Lease Address New GHG Laws? ” The top 10 questions we received were: How does a building owner count its greenhouse gas emissions to report to the government under this new Maryland law ?

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Greenbuilding Law

AUGUST 20, 2023

Buildings are one of Colorado’s top five sources of greenhouse gas emissions. As directed by a state law enacted in 2021, as HB 1286, the Colorado Health Department’s Air Pollution Control Division developed the newly finalized standards. Last week, Colorado established mandatory energy performance standards for large buildings.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 22, 2022

On June 13, 2022, Chile published its Climate Change Framework Law (“the Climate Act”). It creates regulatory instruments, a new crosscutting governance, and opportunities for public participation. Governance. The Climate Act also creates important challenges and opportunities for Chile’s private sector.

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Legal Planet

JULY 17, 2023

Three decades earlier, a class project by five law students had led to a major win on standing, though a loss on the merits. No one really thought that Mendelsohn could win when he petitioned EPA to regulate greenhouse gases from new cars and trucks. In the end, however, they came on board, along with several state governments.

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Greenbuilding Law

JUNE 11, 2023

In the face of concerns over global climate change, finding effective solutions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions has become a pressing priority. Additionally, purchasing and retiring offsets in the marketplace voluntarily or to satisfy a government mandate is key to reducing the emissions footprint.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Colombia accounts for 0.4 % of the global greenhouse gas emissions (“GHG”). So far, the country has adopted several laws to strengthen the legal framework towards achieving these goals. Among the main legal statutes are: Law 164 of 1994 on the UNFCCC. Law 629 of 2000 on the Kyoto Protocol. of the national total.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

have long demonstrated leadership on climate change, with more than 170 of them having set targets to phase out fossil energy and many others committing to net zero greenhouse gas emissions. A new Sabin Center report, Cities Climate Law: A Legal Framework for Local Action in the U.S. , Cities around the U.S.

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Greenbuilding Law

DECEMBER 3, 2023

This post is adapted from a Client Alert to commercial real estate owners and tenants in those buildings in Maryland about the new regulations requiring that beginning January 1, 2024 greenhouse gas emission data be collected for reporting to the state government. How a building owner (i.e.,

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

It is 33 years now since the IPCC in its first report in 1990 concluded that it is “certain” that greenhouse gas emissions from human activities “will enhance the greenhouse effect, resulting on average in an additional warming of the Earth’s surface.”

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

.” The Times article focuses on the alarming intersection of three current environmental crises–water supply shortages, groundwater contamination, and excessive greenhouse gas emission levels–that threaten California and other states across the nation.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The global climate crisis requires immediate action, and we can start here at home in our Commonwealth, where we produce more than one percent of global greenhouse gases annually. The ERA is surprisingly not well known in government or by the public.

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Greenbuilding Law

DECEMBER 4, 2022

The Federal government is proposing the Federal Supplier Climate Risks and Resilience Rule , which will require major Federal contractors publicly disclose their greenhouse gas emissions and climate related financial risks and set emissions reduction targets. And doing so, will literally remake the US economy.

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 25, 2022

The case concerns the scope of the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from existing fossil fuel power plants under Section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act (CAA). Read the brief here.

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The Energy Law Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Within the first six weeks of 2022, both state and federal governments have taken steps toward offshore wind energy development off the coast of Louisiana. The Plan offers strategies and actions aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions in Louisiana. In addition to Action 1.3,

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Litigation against major corporate greenhouse gas (GHG) emitters has proven extremely tough. Even as successful cases against governments have blossomed, private suits face significant barriers. A civil law breakthrough came in 2021, with the ruling of a Dutch court against Shell.

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E2 Law Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Specifically, New York is statutorily required to achieve: An economy-wide 85% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050; 70% renewable energy consumption by 2030 followed by a 100% zero-emission electric system by 2040; and. 6,000 MW of solar by 2025, 9,000 MW of offshore wind by 2035, and 3,000 MW of energy storage by 2030.

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