Conflict of Laws

JUNE 13, 2022

Hans van Loon (Institut de Droit International) gave an overview of the relationship between Private International Law and the UN Sustainable Development Goals 2030. He outlined the challenge of reconciling economic development with sustainability and the contribution PIL can make towards this goal.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a district court decision that vacated the listing of the Beringia distinct population segment (DPS) of the Pacific bearded seal subspecies as “threatened” under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Climate Litigation Chart (Update #92): FEATURED CASE. Alaska Oil & Gas Association v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 21, 2022

greenhouse gas emissions by 50 to 52 percent below 2005 levels by 2030. greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent below 2005 levels by 2030. The analysis shows that, if transmission development continues at that rate through 2035, “[o]ver 80% of the potential emissions reductions delivered by [the] IRA in 2030 are lost.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JANUARY 13, 2021

UK Supreme Court Overturned an Appellate Court Decision, Allowing the Approval Process for a Third Runway at Heathrow International Airport to Move Forward. Minister of Environmental Affairs and Others (South Africa High Court). Spain (Supreme Court of Spain). Bureau of Land Management , No. 4:20-cv-00115 (D.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 20, 2020

ClientEarth demands that PGE close 11 of 12 coal units at Belchatow by 2030, and the last by 2035, while PGE’s existing schedule would close them by 2040 after existing reserves are depleted. Subsequent to the Supreme Court decision, the government of Nepal passed the Environment Protection Act of 2019 and the Forests Act of 2019.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JUNE 8, 2021

Justice Sotomayor dissented, writing that she believed the Court’s interpretation would allow defendants to “sidestep” the general bar on appellate review by “shoehorning” a civil rights or federal officer removal argument into their case for removal. Hague District Court Ordered Shell to Reduce Its Emissions 45% by 2030.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The Ninth Circuit said the new issuance of NWP 12 rendered the appeals moot and ordered the district court to dismiss the underlying claim. The Ninth Circuit declined, however, to take a position on whether the underlying cases were moot in their entirety and also declined to vacate any district court decisions.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MAY 7, 2021

DECISIONS AND SETTLEMENTS. Parties Voluntarily Dismissed Appeals of Federal Court Decision Requiring More Climate Change Analysis for Wyoming Oil and Gas Leases. Brazil submitted an updated NDC in 2020 that maintains a 43% emissions cut by 2030 goal, but raises Brazil’s estimated baseline emissions from 2005. filed Apr.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 4, 2021

After the developers terminated the Keystone XL pipeline project, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on July 16, 2021 dismissed for lack of jurisdiction an appeal of the district court’s denial of a motion for a preliminary injunction barring work on the pipeline. temperature target.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 2, 2021

The district court found the analysis of greenhouse gas and climate change impacts to be adequate but remanded for consideration of alternatives that did not involve leasing all nominated parcels. The conservation groups’ appeal of the district court decision is still pending, with the opening brief due on July 12.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 9, 2021

Ten families, including children, from Portugal, Germany, France, Italy, Romania, Kenya, Fiji, and the Swedish Sami Youth Association Sáminuorra, brought an action in 2018 in the EU General Court seeking to compel the EU to take more stringent greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reductions. Oral arguments were heard from March 16 to 26, 2021.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The banks pledge to develop interim 2030 GHG reduction targets as well. court decisions finding antitrust violations in connection with climate pledges. companies engaged in the fossil fuel business. And in fact, a recent Sierra Club report analyzing U.S. Thus far, there have not been any U.S.

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