Legal Planet
SEPTEMBER 23, 2024
Political and social science must come to the fore to help develop effective responses to tipping events. Conventional governance toolkits offer few if any tools designed for problems involving non-linear relationships and huge time-lags between cause and effect. The missing knowledge is not primarily natural science.
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.
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Law Columbia
MAY 10, 2021
is politically insufficiently ambitious, but such a choice remains within the significant discretion of the legislature (¶¶159-162). Last but not least: the precautionary principle requires that potentially colossal damage be averted. A swift political reaction. However, adopting a 1.5C to avoid passing the 1.5C
Legal Planet
DECEMBER 2, 2024
Representational sovereignty is the right of Indigenous peoples and other marginalized groups to control how their stories are told and to have a voice in how they are represented in the public sphere—whether in the media or in political decision-making processes.
Legal Planet
MAY 19, 2024
These latest political misadventures by Governor DeSantis are equal parts ostrich-like, head-in-the-sand behavior; straight out of the Flat Earth Society playbook; and reminiscent of Mad Magazine’s/Alfred E. All in an effort to score some cheap political points rather than serve Floridians’ long-term interests and welfare.
Environmental Science
SEPTEMBER 7, 2018
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. Laws here apply to surface water such as rivers, lakes and oceans, floodwater and ice meltwater, groundwater and the water table.
Vermont Law
APRIL 9, 2025
Originally intended, as the name suggests, to protect investments in politically unstable nations, this mechanism has morphed into a tool for corporations to challenge national policies (including environmental protections) in international arbitration tribunals against sovereign nations.
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