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MAY 3, 2024

The UK High Court ruled Friday that the Government’s climate strategy is inadequate and therefore violates the UK Climate Change Act 2008. The ruling comes nearly two years after a previous High Court judgment ordered the Government to strengthen its net zero strategy to bring it in line with the Climate Change Act.

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JANUARY 25, 2022

The Supreme Court of Pakistan swore in Ayesha Malik Monday as its first woman Justice. Chief Justice Gulzar Ahmed administered the oath to Justice Malik at a ceremony held within the premises of the Supreme Court with several judges, lawyers and Law and Justice Commission officials in attendance.

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OCTOBER 18, 2021

The court gave a deadline of December 31, 2022, for damage compensation. After a series of hearings, the court issued an order on February 3, 2021. In the order, the court recognized that France’s inaction had caused ecological damage and awarded the plaintiffs a sum of €1 as moral damages.

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JUNE 17, 2021

A group of Norwegian climate activists on Tuesday formally requested that the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) review Norway’s plans for expanded Arctic oil and gas extraction, arguing that their “rights to life and private and family life are directly affected by climate change.” The case was then dismissed on appeal.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Three Portuguese environmental groups, Ultimo Recurso, Quercus and Sciaeno, filed a legal action in court Monday against the Portuguese government in response to the perceived lack of effort to enact legislation created to tackle climate change. Landmark cases include Milieudefensie v.

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JULY 2, 2021

The Council—which provides legal advice to the executive and acts as the Supreme Court for Administrative Justice—agreed on three important matters. France assigned itself an even more ambitious goal of 40 percent reduction by 2030, compared to 1990 levels. First, France is exceeding its emissions budgets.

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AUGUST 15, 2021

.” The announcement follows an order from the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja that Shell must pay the settlement within 21 days. Justice Ahmed Mohammed ruled against Shell’s request that the money be paid to the court, further ordering that the payment must go directly to the Ogoni peoples’ lawyer, Lucius Nwosa.

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JANUARY 15, 2023

Earlier in the week, a German regional court upheld an earlier ruling to clear the village, which is in the brown-coal district of the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The agreement was presented to the public in October 2022 and, among other things, is setting out to bring RWE’s exit from coal forward by eight years to 2030.

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JANUARY 16, 2025

trillion per year by 2030 advocated by African nations and other proponents of climate justice. As emphasized during International Court of Justice hearings on climate obligations , illicit financial flows and weak tax regimes hinder low-income nations’ ability to build climate resilience.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Last month, X announced that it would cease operations in Brazil, citing “ censorship orders ” from Supreme Federal Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes. As president of the Superior Electoral Court, Moraoes barred Bolsonaro from running for office until 2030, citing his attempts to undermine Brazil’s electoral process.

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MARCH 6, 2025

On November 26, 2024, the Supreme Administrative Court of the Czech Republic dismissed the countrys first strategic climate case ( Klimatick aloba R v. Czech Republic ), finding that the European Union (EU)s commitment to reduce emissions by 55 percent by 2030 is a collective obligation, not an individual one for Czechia.

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AUGUST 29, 2024

The Constitutional Court of South Korea ruled on Thursday concerning the constitutionality of several key provisions related to the nation’s greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction targets, impacting the future of the country’s climate policy. South Korea is aiming for carbon neutrality by 2050.

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JULY 7, 2023

Environmental and legal organizations Friends of the Earth , Client Earth and Good Law Project filed their claim against UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Carbon Budget Delivery Plan with the High Court. The High Court held that the government’s previous policies were insufficient, failing to show how their targets would be met.

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DECEMBER 2, 2023

The Berlin-Brandenburg Higher Administrative Court held Thursday that the German Government violated federal climate change law by failing to reach annual targets. The court found that the groups were successful in their claims. Environmental NGOs Deutsche Umwelthilfe and BUND brought the claim to court.

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DECEMBER 19, 2024

While the court addressed multiple issues, I want to focus here on the damages analysis - particularly regarding comparable licenses and apportionment. Under this agreement, Nu Mark paid Fontem a $43 million lump sum for rights to practice Fontem's patents through 2030. Patent Nos. 10,299,517, 10,485,269, and 10,492,541.

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AUGUST 14, 2023

Last Wednesday Poland challenged the legality of two major EU legal acts that are part of the “Fit for 55” package currently before the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). That will most likely be a matter for the next legislature which will prove to be crucial in the pursuit of the 2030 and 2050 targets.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

On June 20, 2023, the Spanish Supreme Court handed down its final ruling in the case of Greenpeace v. However, the Supreme Court found that the Spanish Government had complied with the Paris Agreement and the EU legislation. Under Annex 1 of the EU Regulation, by 2030, Spain must have reduced its GHG emissions by 37.7%

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MAY 7, 2021

The bill itself aims to introduce new measures to aid France in reaching its target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions to 40 percent compared to the 1990 levels by 2030. The bill was approved by a 332-77 margin by the lower house where President Emmanuel Macron has a working majority.

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MARCH 5, 2021

A European Union court ruled Thursday that the UK was in breach of the bloc’s air pollution limit by failing to fulfil its obligations under the combined provisions of Article 13(1) and of Annex XI to Directive No 2008/50/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 May 2008 on ambient air quality and cleaner air for Europe.

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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

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

In the 2018 case, the plaintiffs were found not to have standing because their interest in not suffering damage from climate change was not considered an individual interest to be protected (see Japanese Courts Admit the Operation of New Coal-Fired Power Plants in Kobe for more discussion).

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DECEMBER 12, 2024

Introduction On November 12, 2024, the Dutch Court of Appeal in The Hague issued its eagerly awaited appeals judgment in Milieudefensie (Friends of the Earth Netherlands) and others v. The applicants sought an injunction declaring that Shell is legally bound to reduce its carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 45% below 2019 levels by 2030.

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JANUARY 24, 2025

On January 10, 2025, the Irish High Court decided in Coolglass Windfarm Limited v. The Court noted that if climate goals take precedence over visual impacts [as had been found in a previous case of Nagle View Turbine Aware Group v.

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APRIL 4, 2024

Next week’s judgments from the European Court of Human Rights in its first climate cases will be another significant factor to shape this field – so watch this space for more analysis to come! This includes, for example, the climate case brought by Korean young people before the Constitutional Court of Korea, which is pictured above.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Following their arrest, the protesters were kept in police custody and were subsequently arraigned before the Accra circuit court where they were remanded for 12 days awaiting their judgment. Notably, the Police had been informed of the protest more than a month in advance as required by law.

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AUGUST 6, 2024

” The five supporters of Just Stop Oil appeared Tuesday morning in Manchester Magistrates’ Court and were charged with intentionally or recklessly causing public nuisance. This followed a number of arrests made on Monday near Manchester Airport, with another man being arrested in Birmingham.

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APRIL 26, 2024

The amendment passed a day after the Federal Constitutional Court rejected a lawmaker’s objection to the amended bill. Consequently, the court declared the claim inadmissible and rejected an interim injunction. He claimed there was insufficient time for lawmakers to find out about these amendments to the law.

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MAY 10, 2024

The recent rulings on climate change by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) are—as others have pointed out in this blog symposium —both “historic and unprecedented” for various reasons, not least regarding the question of reparation for climate change-related harm. A Missed Opportunity or the First of Many Decisions to Come?

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APRIL 24, 2025

Credit: Christine Olsson/TT On February 19, 2025, the Swedish Supreme Court dismissed the Aurora case ( Anton Foley and others v Sweden ), the first systemic climate change case brought in Sweden. It sheds light on how national courts may interpret KlimaSeniorinnen , particularly on separation of powers.

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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. Paralegals and legal assistants held about 345,600 jobs in 2020. Federal Government 5%. TIP: A great resource for finding federal jobs is USAJobs.gov.

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MAY 28, 2021

The historic judgment rendered by the District Court of the Hague on May 26, 2021 represents a new understanding of corporate liability in regards to the risk of harm caused by their contribution to climate change. The court confirmed standing interests of NGOs representing Dutch public interests (§4.2.2.). by Iva Lea Aurer*.

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DECEMBER 12, 2023

On November 30, 2023, the Higher Administrative Court Berlin-Brandenburg ruled in DUH and BUND v. 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 the merits as well, the court ruled in favor of the plaintiffs.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2024

As previously discussed on this blog, the SEC adopted a climate disclosure rule in March, but that rule is currently suspended pending ongoing court review, and its fate is uncertain given the upcoming transition. Why is that important?

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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. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania issued a decision on December 6, 2023 in Transource Pa. Transource Pa. Defrank The U.S.

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MARCH 11, 2025

Copyright ICJ/CIJ/Frank van Beek This blog post is Part 2 of a three-part series highlighting the main legal arguments presented during the hearings of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the advisory opinion request related to States obligations regarding climate change.

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MAY 10, 2021

On April 29, 2021 the German Constitutional Court (the Bundesverfassungsgericht, or GCC) rendered a ground-breaking judgment, requiring the German government to establish specific plans to achieve its mid-century greenhouse gas emissions goal. (An To achieve the 2030 target the law determines the permissible emissions for various sectors.

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APRIL 9, 2024

In a transformative moment for European and global climate litigation, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled today that the state has a positive duty to adopt, and effectively implement in practice, regulations and measures capable of mitigating the existing and potentially irreversible future effects of climate change.

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