Law and Environment

APRIL 12, 2022

At the same time, the “precautionary principle” is not a sound basis for regulations. As Cass Sunstein has noted , the precautionary principle provides help only if we blind ourselves to many aspects of risk-related situations and focus on a narrow subset of what is at stake. first appeared on Law and the Environment.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 13, 2021

That we cannot turn this back is the reason why the precautionary principle should be applied to the climate crisis. Just look at the ranges expected by the year 2300, in the right-hand panel of the first image above.

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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. Following their logic, we might be able to get a handle on plastic pollution by the year 3000.

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Nanotech

JULY 15, 2022

As a result, it is important to highlight safety-relevant aspects at an early stage and to identify potential risks in accordance with the precautionary principle. The dossier notes that novel materials and/or new functionalities are also associated with uncertainties regarding human health and the environment.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

A tipping point is a system threshold beyond which change becomes self-perpetuating until a qualitatively different stable state is reached. For example a rainforest turns into a grassland, or an ice sheet melts completely. Such shifts are non-linear, and practically irreversible.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

11 GC26), with due regard to the precautionary principle (IV. Argentina et al. ). In 2021, the CRC dismissed the complaints since the petitioners had failed to exhaust domestic legal remedies at the national level. . §11

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 20, 2023

This is consistent with the precautionary principle that underlies much international environmental law. There is, however, an alternative reading of the precautionary principle that could justify pursuing ocean CDR despite the risks it presents.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

And other principles of international law will work to ensure that any measure is sensitive the different contributions parties have made to climate change, views any uncertainties through the lens of the precautionary principle, and respects fundamental rights of all.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 15, 2024

RESERVE YOUR SPOT AT THIS EVENT Friday, April 26, 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM at the National Arts Centre (Ottawa), Toxic Chemicals in Plastics, Public Health and the Precautionary Principle: With a focus on plastic additives of concern and their impacts on health and well-being, this free interactive session will feature leading scientists, environmental (..)

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Law Columbia

APRIL 22, 2021

As part of its consideration, the court emphasized the need for the government to uphold the precautionary principle of protecting the rights to life, sustainability, and dignity of communities surrounding the project areas.

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Law Columbia

JULY 24, 2025

Other principles, such as the principles of sustainable development, common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities (CBDR-RC), equity, intergenerational equity, and the precautionary principle are also applicable (para. 162-171).

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 18, 2024

Hosted by Environmental Defence Contact: Lauren Thomas, media@environmentaldefence.ca Talk: Plastic Pollution on the Frontlines: Stories from Turtle Island Wednesday, April 24 from 12:00 – 2:00 pm Hosted by Environmental Defence Contact: Lauren Thomas, media@environmentaldefence.ca Panel: Toxic Chemicals in Plastics, Public Health and the (..)

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Acoel

JUNE 3, 2021

Parties to the agreement agree to be guided by 11 principles, including the principles of non-regression and progressive realization, the preventative principle, the precautionary principle, and the principle of intergenerational equity.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 24, 2023

Despite this limitation, Judge Wolfrum noted in his separate opinion that the precautionary approach is enshrined in Article 194(2) of UNCLOS as customary international law ( p.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 18, 2024

Hosted by Environmental Defence Contact: Lauren Thomas, media@environmentaldefence.ca Talk: Plastic Pollution on the Frontlines: Stories from Turtle Island Wednesday, April 24 from 12:00 – 2:00 pm Hosted by Environmental Defence Contact: Lauren Thomas, media@environmentaldefence.ca Panel: Toxic Chemicals in Plastics, Public Health and the (..)

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 11, 2022

Since the dispute ended with a settlement and the withdrawal of the complaint, it is unknown whether the CJEU would have shared the AG’s opinion. 71-72 ).

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Law Columbia

MAY 10, 2021

Last but not least: the precautionary principle requires that potentially colossal damage be averted. In many countries, such as the Small Island States, Bangladesh, and the Philippines, adaptation is not the answer. If possible at all, these countries do not have the funds to take the necessary measures. to avoid passing the 1.5C

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Dario Piselli

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

In recent years, and with growing intensity since the adoption of the Paris Agreement, the concept of environmental health has emerged as a fundamental prism through which to analyse the complex interplay between global health and environmental law.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Since 1981, cost-benefit analysis (CBA) has been at the core of the rule making process. OIRA, the so-called “regulatory czar” in the White House, must approve every significant regulation based on a review of its CBA. But CBA has had a major blind spot.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Precautionary Principle : Often a hot topic and subject to furious debate, this international standard promotes the concept through The Rio Declaration that to protect an environment, a precautionary approach must be applied according to their capability.

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Legal Planet

MAY 19, 2024

(credit: PBI Actuarial Consultants) Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, in coordination with an equally myopic and partisan Florida Legislature, has approved new state legislation ( HB 1645 ) that eliminates the term “climate change” from numerous existing Florida statutes that former Republican Governor Charlie Crist signed into law in 2008. (..)

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Environmental Progress

MARCH 11, 2021

Neidell, Shinsuke Uchida, and Marcella Veronesi, “Be Cautious with the Precautionary Principle: Evidence from Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident” (Working Paper 26395, National Bureau for Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, MA, October 2019), [link] [25] Breakthrough Energy Sciences, “Modeling Clean Energy for the U.S.,”

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Following the precautionary principle, citizens have the right to be concerned about the quality of their environment and do not have to wait for climate conditions so unfavorable that they do not allow their basic needs of life to be met. The court defined the right to a favorable environment (included in the Czech constitution, art.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 21, 2022

The finding relied on (i) the reasonable foreseeability of the risk of death or personal injury through heat waves or bushfires, (ii) the precautionary principle, (iii) the special vulnerability of the children, (iv) their reliance on the Minister for protection, and (v) their innocence.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Petitioners allege that respondents have failed to prevent foreseeable human rights harms caused by climate change by making insufficient reductions to greenhouse gas emissions.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Supreme Court of Mexico Rejected Ethanol Fuel Content Hike, Citing Precautionary Principle and Right to a Healthy Environment. The Court concluded that the precautionary principle and the right to a healthy environment require consideration of ethanol’s environmental risks, including its contributions to greenhouse gas emissions.

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Environmental Europe

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Layzer contends that US Conservatives have thus “created a storyline that undermines the environmental narrative by discrediting environmentalists and furnishing a principled basis for disputing their claims”. [2] 2] Examples of such principled opposition include calling for the respect for property rights (v.

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