Law Columbia

OCTOBER 12, 2021

After the adoption of the Paris Agreement, which included a notable recognition of the human rights dimensions of climate change, courts have seen a rights turn in climate litigation. The rise of rights-based climate litigation. In Shrestha v.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Bolsonaro pointed out that other countries had been allowed to manage their natural resources with little outside interference, even if there were adverse environmental consequences, and specifically referenced the history of developed nations like Germany and France. effectively implement[ing] the Paris Agreement on Climate Change.”.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 16, 2021

The Amazon rainforest, the country’s not-so-secret weapon to mitigate climate change, features prominently in the litigation. The petition also relies on the international climate change framework (the UNFCCC and the Paris Agreement, which have both been incorporated in Brazilian law). I wrote about some of those here and here.)

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 2, 2022

At the beginning of COP 27, the Rainforest Action Network, in a report endorsed by many environmental groups, found that Bank of America, J.P. BP, Shell, Aramco and two Texas oil and gas companies, Pioneer Natural Resources and Diamondback Energy, all received between $23 billion and $31 billion in financing.

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