Energy and Climate Law

DECEMBER 8, 2020

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. As a result, the Conseil d’Etat requested the government to justify how the reduction path to 2030 can be respected without stricter measures.

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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). The rules governing written proceedings are quite flexible. But a lot has changed since then.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

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. Thus, the reasons must relate to psychology or political science, not philosophy. In many countries, including the U.S,

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The UNFCC Paris Agreement , for example, proposed that the global community would work together to limit the Earth’s temperature warming by 1.5°C It’s also worth noting that climate goals have historically been established when political and fossil fuel industry power was central to how negotiations operate.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 24, 2023

Spearheaded by the Republic of Vanuatu, they want the court to clarify how existing International Law can strengthen governmental action on climate change, protect public health and the environment, and save the save the Paris Agreement.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

It’s a privilege to be here representing the Union of Concerned Scientists with my colleagues, peers from other NGOs and wider civil society and government and private sector leaders from around the globe. The blue zone at COP27 holds negotiation rooms, along with the official plenary space where political leaders meet and make decisions.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 4, 2022

Now the reports driven by these resolutions are beginning to roll in, and while they certainly provide some insight into the fossil fuel industry’s investment in political influence, a sleight of hand is preventing investors from seeing the companies’ full strategy. The company spent $6 million to lobby federal and state governments in 2020.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Many recent scientific reports—including from the IPCC , UNEP and the IEA —show that we are fast running out of time to make the steep cuts in heat-trapping emissions that would keep the Paris Agreement temperature targets within reach. Yet global fossil fuel production and use continue to expand. It’s not going to be easy.

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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. How will governments deal with private startups if they continue to perform unscientific, unregulated experiments? A weather balloon.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 18, 2024

This indicates that not only democracy but also litigation to compel governments to reduce GHG emissions is fraught with obstacles. Despite these crucial nuances in the “ terms of the treaty ”, the Court refers to the UNFCCC and the Paris Agreement as “international commitments undertaken by the member States” (para.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 8, 2023

Moreover, it is important for regional or national governments to prioritize meeting the targets set by the Paris Agreement, supporting cities in their efforts. This target has been incorporated into the National Climate Agreement, a binding law that ensures political commitment to implementation.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 22, 2023

The world—and more specifically national governments, especially the richest nations and corporate interests—should concede that it is not feasible for us to make it on foot, but we still have lots of options to make it. And this last warning leads to enough momentum to get out the door and we make the bell. degrees Celsius (2.7

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

This sucro-politics was overtaken by carbo-politics, where the work was done by coal, and then more recently by the petro-politics of oil. In each case, the source of wealth and power shaped politics in profound ways. And that means that “petro-state decomposition must be our primary political objective.”

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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. Two of the events involved striking decisions in lawsuits in other countries involving fossil fuels.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 17, 2021

This election is a can’t-miss opportunity to elect a government bold, intelligent, responsible and compassionate enough to ensure that this pandemic recovery also helps solve the dire ecological and social justice crises we face,” said Megan Leslie, President & CEO of WWF Canada and “One Earth One Vote” spokesperson.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 23, 2023

Modeling has shown that if the United States is going to live up to its Paris Agreement targets aimed at limiting global warming to 1.5 The bottom line: There’s still a long way to go, and the clean energy transition must move quicker than it has been—despite the fossil fuel industry’s self-serving claims to the contrary.

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HumanNature

MARCH 11, 2024

Student in the Department of Economics at Colorado State University As the urgent need to take tough action towards climate mitigation and sustainability gathers pressure, for most major power-holders today, including the markets, institutions, government agencies, media and countries, environmentalism has perhaps become the biggest fashion fad.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Moreover, with this strategic litigation, the Czech Republic joins the list of countries where citizens are challenging governments’ overall responses to climate change. In April 2021, a group of Czech citizens filed a case against the national government for its inaction on climate change. On the claim against the government.

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Environmental Europe

JULY 1, 2020

The EU is facing a key challenge in climate and energy governance. It has agreed to address climate change under the Paris Agreement , and put forward increasingly ambitious policy targets for 2020, 2030 and 2050. Multilevel Coordination in EU Energy Policy: A New Type of “harder” Soft Governance?’, Knodt, Michèle (2019).

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Preparation, both in inter-sessional meetings and in diplomatic efforts by the Egyptian host government, was weak. There was no progress on getting national governments to state stronger ambitions in their NDCs, in the additional specification of global targets, or even in non-binding language regarding intentions to cut fossil fuels.

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Environmental Europe

JULY 29, 2020

For a long time, most people thought it to be a very technical exercise of low politics, but our new work demonstrates that this is no longer the case. Especially in the wake of the 2015 Paris Agreement, policy monitoring and review has become the core way in which the international community seeks to reach climate targets.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

While every UN member state would need to agree to the new agreement (if reached in Glasgow) which would replace the Paris Agreement , the landmark deal agreed in Paris in 2015, it really depends on a handful of countries. But if we are just talking about progress from the Paris Agreement then success will be more likely.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 17, 2024

and Cuban governments could help to drive renewable energy development in the island nation, in a manner that benefits the Cuban people as well as the interests of people throughout the region. The report also explores how a bilateral dialogue between the U.S. Since 2000, Venezuela has been Cuba’s primary source of imported oil.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 1, 2021

On October 26, 2021, Observatório do Clima (OC), a network of 71 civil society organizations, filed a class action at the federal court of Amazonas against the Environmental Ministry and Brazilian government ( Laboratório do Observatório do Clima v. Omissions from the Brazilian government on climate policy. o C global warming scenario.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 6, 2022

As the IPCC working group II report put it, many communities are running up against hard and soft limits to adaptation—the hard limits being physical and the soft ones being a lack of resources and political will. Source: IPCC Working Group II Report, AR6.

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Energy and Climate Law

JUNE 26, 2020

The European Council defines the EU's overall political direction and consits of heads of state or government of the 27 EU member states, the European Council President and the President of the European Commission. However, this shall only be done `after a thorough impact assessment´( p.18

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2022

Geopolitical conflicts and internal political turmoil within OPEC member nations and other oil producing countries can all end up affecting the global supply and price of crude oil. Small disruptions in supply can be covered by selling oil that is stored by private companies or held by the government in the strategic petroleum reserve.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 27, 2021

President of the summit is the physicist and politician Alok Sharma MP , who previously served as business secretary in the UK government. In the run-up to COP26, the UK has been working behind the scenes with every nation to reach agreement on how to tackle climate change. Global goals. James McKenzie.

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Vermont Law

JUNE 1, 2016

. : Parties to the UNFCCC gathered over the last two weeks for their mid-year meeting in Bonn, Germany to attempt to translate the recent treaties into substantive government policies. The Paris Agreement seized the center stage for at least a third of SB44’s agenda, given the number of. By Tracy Bach.

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Ocean Conservancy

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Collaboration among governments, private sector actors, international organizations and conservation stakeholders is pivotal to fully realizing opportunities of offshore wind and accelerating its responsible deployment.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2022

In the 2015 Paris Agreement , Article 8 acknowledged the importance of L&D and the accompanying decision 1/CP.21 After several years of deadlock, parties established a work program on L&D in 2012 (at COP17 in Durban), further formalized in 2013 as the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage (WIM).

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Law Columbia

MARCH 15, 2023

Background on Ocean CDR In the Paris Agreement , 193 countries, including the U.S., However, sections of the model legislation may be severed and work on their own, depending on the political choices involved. committed to “[h]olding the increase in global average temperatures to well below 2 o C” and ideally to 1.5

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Law Columbia

APRIL 8, 2022

Second, it could influence decisions by administrative and judicial bodies, for example with regard to the approval of specific projects, such as oil and gas infrastructure and undertakings not in line with the Paris Agreement (see Section 3 below). Rights-based climate litigation has been increasing substantially in recent years.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 19, 2023

News that the Pakistan government plans to secure financing and start construction on a long-stalled 300-megawatt coal-fired power plant in the port city of Gwadar has triggered a debate on the direction of the country’s energy sector. “We Electricity shortage is the biggest impediment to developing Gwadar,” he said.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 30, 2022

The week in February when Russia attacked Ukraine, government representatives and scientists from around the world were hard at work finalizing the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report on Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Multiple crises colliding with climate change.

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Law Columbia

MAY 10, 2021

On April 29, 2021 the German Constitutional Court (the Bundesverfassungsgericht, or GCC) rendered a ground-breaking judgment, requiring the German government to establish specific plans to achieve its mid-century greenhouse gas emissions goal. (An By Jaap Spier [1]. An English press release is available here. threshold must not be passed.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 23, 2021

In 2021, courts worldwide further defined governments’ and companies’ duty of care in relation to climate change, as well as a governments’ extraterritorial responsibility for climate harm. National courts advance climate mitigation pushing governments towards increased action. See an analysis of the decision here.

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