Conflict of Laws

OCTOBER 9, 2021

Formulated by the United Nations in 2015, they form the core of the 2030 Agenda and aim to enable people worldwide to live in dignity while respecting the earth’s ecological limit. In Public Law, including International Law, SGDs have already established themselves as a subject of research.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Guest Commentary: An Unexpected Success for Czech Climate Litigation. Czech Republic ) and ordered the Czech Republic’s ministries to take specific measures to reach a 55% GHG emissions reduction by 2030 (in comparison with the 1990 level). Eva Balounová *. Introduction. R ), which was created in 2019 to bring this case. On standing.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 8, 2022

The post also illustrates the positive impact the reform is likely to have on climate litigation initiatives in Italy. Adopting a comparative perspective, we draw on constitutional frameworks and recent climate litigation cases in other European jurisdictions. What does the reform bring about?

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 16, 2022

Legislative instruments play a critical role in empowering governments to take urgent and strategic actions to mitigate and adapt to climate change and can significantly impact the growth of climate litigation in a particular jurisdiction. The Future of Climate Change Litigation in Nigeria. In Gbemre v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 12, 2022

The first week of July 2022 brought on several major developments in climate litigation in the Netherlands, with possibly significant ramifications for a new type of global climate litigation. This “splash” of misleading advertisement cases (rather than a “wave”) seems to be a fairly new phenomenon in climate litigation.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Czech Republic , ordering the Czech government to create a more ambitious emissions reduction plan based on its obligations under the Paris Agreement ( Press Release of Czech Climate Litigation ). Courts, litigants, and scholars have taken various approaches to fill this gap.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The case is the latest on a growing climate litigation trend in Brazil. Through the Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) published in 2016, Brazil committed to reducing GHG emissions by 37% by 2025 and by 43% by 2030 as compared to a 2005 baseline. The Case in Context: Related climate litigation cases. In PSB et al.

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JURIST

JULY 12, 2022

” Holcim responded to the suit, saying , “We significantly reduced our footprint over the last decade and will cut it further by 2030.” ” The post Indonesia island residents sue Swiss company for climate change effects appeared first on JURIST - News.

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JURIST

JUNE 17, 2021

The Norwegian lawsuit is the latest in an emerging branch of international climate change-related litigation. In May, a Hague court ordered Royal Dutch Shell to cut its carbon emissions 45 percent by 2030. That same day, a court in Uganda heard its first human rights case regarding climate change impacts.

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Conflict of Laws

MAY 26, 2021

As was briefly announced earlier on this blog , on 29 January 2021, the Dutch Court of Appeal in The Hague gave a ruling in a long-standing litigation launched by four Nigerian farmers and the Dutch Milieudefensie. Climate change and related human rights litigation is undoubtedly of increasing importance in private international law.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

MAY 6, 2022

According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, employment of paralegals and legal assistants is projected to grow 12 percent from 2020 to 2030, faster than the average for all occupations. Throughout her 30-year career, she has worked in litigation, from the private law firm to the governmental sector, civil and criminal.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MAY 10, 2021

The judgment, in German, and an unofficial English translation, along with other documents, are available on the Sabin Center’s Non-US Climate Litigation Database, here.) Germany’s Federal Climate Change Act requires a 55% gradual reduction of German GHGs by 2030 and a reduction of 80-95% by 2050, compared to 1990. Background.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 18, 2021

RELDI represented Win With Wind in litigation before the PSC to advocate for the project. Following the 2019 adoption of the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, a minimum of 70% of statewide electric generation must be supplied by renewable energy by 2030, and 100% must be derived from zero-emission sources by 2040.

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Conflict of Laws

JULY 21, 2023

Costa Rica has been a pioneer in the inclusion of markers of transnational access to justice in its annual reporting on SDG 16, and a leader in the region in relation to the work of judicial authorities in connection with the UN Agenda 2030.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 4, 2021

RELDI represented Friends of Flint Mine Solar in litigation before the Siting Board and before a New York State Supreme Court to advocate for the project. New York State critically needs solar energy. The state cannot meet its statutorily mandated renewable energy targets without scaling up solar energy capacity.

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Conflict of Laws

MAY 19, 2021

These professionals will offer you theoretical and practical insights into commercial law, private international law and transnational litigation. trillion dollars in consumer spending by 2030. Relevance for investment. Africa’s population is approximately one billion people, and its growing population is expected to reach nearly 2.2

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 2, 2022

and global climate litigation movement. Moreover, the case in Puerto Rico comes after recent litigation successes in Europe and elsewhere around the world, with courts holding governments and companies accountable for climate harms. climate litigation brought by cities and other subnational jurisdictions is still rare.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. Climate Litigation Chart (Update #92): FEATURED CASE. and non-U.S. Here are the additions to the U.S. 24, 2016).

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

By 2030, Colombia aims to reduce its emissions by 51% in all sectors and achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. For example, the court order in the Future Generations case, regarded as Colombia’s highest-profile climate litigation case, has yet to be fulfilled five years after the decision. of the national total.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

In this commentary, we recall the background of the case, provide context to the Tribunal’s decision, and shed light on the case’s takeaways for global climate litigation. The Tribunal’s use of Aarhus to broadly interpret standing is a promising development for climate litigation in other States parties to this Convention.

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Conflict of Laws

JANUARY 30, 2024

Midori NARAZAKI, Climate Change Litigation and Private International Law: Review of the Hague District Court’s Judgment against Royal Dutch Shell Abstract: This paper analyzes a landmark decision by the District Court of The Hague on May 26, 2021, ordering Royal Dutch Shell to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 45% by 2030.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 11, 2022

Therefore, the opinion may have likely influenced a settlement between the litigants the next day. NGOs are campaigning for the closure of the complex by 2030. The funds aim to aid the achievement of the EU’s climate targets by 2030 and climate neutrality by 2050 in line with the Paris Agreement (JT Regulation, Articles 1-2).

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 14, 2021

On September 20, 2021, the German environmental organization Deutsche Umwelthilfe (DUH) filed two actions against the automakers BMW and Mercedes-Benz for refusing to tighten their carbon emissions target and stop producing fossil fuel fuel-emitting cars by 2030 ( DUH v. BMW and DUH v. Mercedes-Benz ). BMW and DUH v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 22, 2021

Climate litigation using the rights of nature. Only a few rights of nature cases explicitly relate to climate change, according to the Global Climate Litigation Report: 2020 Status Review by the United Nations Environment Programme with support from Columbia University’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law. Can we reach this goal?

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Indonesia’s 2030 target projects that its energy emissions will increase above 2010 levels by 268%; waste emissions will increase by 236%; industrial process emissions will increase by 93%; agricultural emissions will increase by 8%; and forestry emissions will increase by 5%. Millions of Indonesians cautiously await its decision.

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LexForti

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The blue economy would reinforce and strengthen the efforts of the Indian government as it strives to achieve the SDGs of hunger and poverty eradication along with sustainable use of marine resources by 2030. All the above laws and statutes were not according to the prevailing Indian System.

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The Fashion Law

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Coca-Cola, for instance, landed on the receiving end of litigation earlier this year related to its ESG claims, including aspirational ones, such as how it aims to “make 100% of our packaging recyclable globally by 2025,” and that “part of our sustainability plan is to help collect and recycle a bottle or can for every one we sell globally by 2030.”

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JANUARY 22, 2024

Department of Energy has stated that, in order to meet growing clean electricity demands, the United States must expand its transmission systems by 60% by 2030 and upwards of 300% by 2050. One obstacle to meeting these targets is the ability of states to block interstate transmission projects.

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Broadcast Law Blog

JULY 21, 2022

The CRB last year set the royalty rates for the period 2021 through 2025 (see our article here) and will start its next proceeding to set those rates for 2026-2030 in early 2024. For commercial radio and TV, SESAC rates are also subject to consideration by an arbitration panel set up as part of a settlement of antitrust litigation.

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Attorney at Work

DECEMBER 7, 2021

It’s not hard to see why freelancers could represent 80% of the global workforce by 2030. If you are a litigator and need someone to draft motions, then you want to make sure the person is a persuasive and strong writer. Despite this, it’s still possible to land yourself in a freelancing nightmare if you don’t hire correctly.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 15, 2023

While the SEC’s climate disclosure rules are pending, and will probably face litigation when final, regulations from other agencies and jurisdictions are likely to affect U.S. Sanctions – This is where regimes are most likely to vary.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. On November 23, GM announced that it was withdrawing from the litigation. By Margaret Barry and Korey Silverman-Roati.

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Conflict of Laws

APRIL 12, 2023

In 2021, the Hague District Court ordered Shell to reduce both its own carbon emissions and end-use emissions by 45% by 2030 in relation to the 2019 figures. Furthermore, BNP also stated its regret in the advocacy groups choosing litigation over dialogue and that it was not able to stop all fossil-fuel financing right away.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

EU Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen and US President Joe Biden made a joint announcement of a pledge to cut global methane emissions 30% by 2030, relative to 2020 levels. More than 100 countries p ledged to end and reverse deforestation by 2030. Global Methane Pledge. More of this difficult but important work is needed.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Climate litigation in Germany has achieved another major victory. The program is intended to ensure compliance with the annual emission targets for the building and transportation sectors for the years 2024 to 2030. On November 30, 2023, the Higher Administrative Court Berlin-Brandenburg ruled in DUH and BUND v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JUNE 16, 2021

Over the last year Brazil has seen numerous innovative climate litigation claims filed that have questioned the country’s climate policies and general effects of activities on climate change. (I The Amazon rainforest, the country’s not-so-secret weapon to mitigate climate change, features prominently in the litigation.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Ministers have expressed their hope that this legislation will incentivize companies involved in driverless car development to offer commercial services to the public by 2030. This reform aims to bring about a fairer balance and discourage frivolous litigation within the realms of media law.

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