Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Political and social science must come to the fore to help develop effective responses to tipping events. This means redoubling efforts to cut emissions, and reliably constrain temperature rises, not gambling on speculative technological interventions to cool the planet. The missing knowledge is not primarily natural science.

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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). The GCC emphasises that technological developments and new scientific insights have to be taken into account. A swift political reaction. However, adopting a 1.5C to avoid passing the 1.5C

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

There may also be requirements on what technologies must be used for mitigation such as the use of catalytic converters in cars that used older lead fuel (6). One of the best examples of control or elimination is the global legislation in the 1980s to limit CFC emissions that were damaging the ozone layer (5).

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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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Environmental Progress

MARCH 11, 2021

25] And that amount does not include the costs associated with local and state political opposition. 31] Many energy experts are enthusiastic about solar panels, but new information has called the social and ethical value of the technology into question. trillion. [25] 30] By contrast, today’s energy system requires just 0.5

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 8, 2025

In a series of posts (beginning here , and ending here ) last month, I outlined an approach to climate policy that emphasizes the role of subsidies in building political support and technological progress for climate policy.

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