JURIST

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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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 23, 2021

A look back at significant decisions in climate litigation in 2021. 2021 was a significant year for climate litigation, with several decisions worldwide providing a fresh look at stakeholder responsibility for climate change. A first decision in climate litigation against private actors. By Maria Antonia Tigre.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Guest Commentary: An Unexpected Success for Czech Climate Litigation. On June 15, 2022, the Prague Municipal Court, a first instance administrative court, decided in favor of the plaintiffs in the first Czech strategic climate case ( Klimatická žaloba ?R Eva Balounová *. Introduction. Background to the claim.

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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? 179/2019 ).

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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

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. The ACC’s reasoning, detailed below and in the writ, will likely inform the court’s reasoning in the FossielVrij case.

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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

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

On June 15, 2022, the Municipal Court of Prague sided with a Czech climate NGO in Klimatická žaloba ČR v. 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 ). By Will Donaldson*.

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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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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

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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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 1, 2021

On October 26, 2021, Observatório do Clima (OC), a network of 71 civil society organizations, filed a class action at the federal court of Amazonas against the Environmental Ministry and Brazilian government ( Laboratório do Observatório do Clima v. The case is the latest on a growing climate litigation trend in Brazil. In PSB et al.

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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. 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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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

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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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 2, 2022

On November 22, 2022, sixteen municipalities of Puerto Rico filed a lawsuit in the federal district court in Puerto Rico seeking to hold coal, oil, and gas companies liable for losses resulting from storms during the 2017 hurricane season and ongoing economic losses since that time. and global climate litigation movement.

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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. Among other topics, they will discuss the questions of jurisdiction, choice of court agreements, foreign currency obligations, and recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments.

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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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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. Pritzker , Nos.

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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. This mechanism is intended solely to force compliance with a specific obligation or duty established by a law or administrative act, as stated by the Constitutional Court (see judgment C-157 of 1998 ). of the national total.

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Conflict of Laws

JANUARY 30, 2024

It outlines trends, legislative changes, and Supreme Court precedents since 1996, with a focus on judgments involving the United States and China. The study examines European court decisions, domestic legislation, and international projects aimed at stabilizing the legal status of such children.

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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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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 22, 2021

According to the “Rights of Nature” doctrine, an ecosystem is entitled to legal personhood status and as such, has the right to defend itself in a court of law against harms, including environmental degradation caused by a specific development project or even by climate change. The Provincial Justice Court of Loja ruled in favor of the river.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 11, 2022

One of the most interesting environmental legal disputes in the European Union was recently settled between the Czech Republic and Poland before the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ( Case C-121/21). The CJEU granted the interim measures by Order of the Vice-President of the Court of 21 May 2021. billion for 2021-2027.

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LexForti

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The jurisdiction for trial and adjudication of cases related to Shipping and Admiralty Acts in India was vested in the High Courts at Madras, Bombay, and Calcutta. Even during the post-independence period in India, the jurisdiction of Admiralty Courts of India was still with the colonial powers. In the case of M. Elisabeth v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MAY 8, 2024

A climate-conscious approach demands, first, actively identifying the intersections between the issues of the legal problem or dispute and climate change issues and, second, giving advice and litigating or resolving the legal problem or dispute in ways that meaningfully address the climate change issues.

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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

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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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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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. Federal Court Found Flaws in New Climate Change Analysis for Wyoming Oil and Gas Leases. and non-U.S. FEATURED CASE.

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Conflict of Laws

APRIL 12, 2023

In case the company does not comply with its vigilance obligations, a court can issue a formal notice, ordering the company to comply with la Loi de Vigilance. It is important here to highlight that the plaintiffs took Shell to the Dutch courts based on the environmental damage caused in the Netherlands, due to Shell’s operations worldwide.

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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. Scope 3 would be required only if the emissions are “material”. Sanctions – This is where regimes are most likely to vary.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Climate litigation in Germany has achieved another major victory. 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.

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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

Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 The Sentencing Bill aims to introduce stricter measures for the most heinous criminals. Any breach of these suspended sentences by repeat offenders would result in a return to court and the possibility of serving the full term in jail.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JUNE 2, 2021

Climate litigation is now established as a critical part of domestic climate governance regimes. While domestic climate litigation is still the most notorious form of climate-related dispute resolution, arbitration and mediation are becoming important means of resolving climate-related disputes. ISDS claims as climate litigation.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 20, 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. Federal Court in Rhode Island Allowed Failure-to-Adapt Claims to Proceed. and non-U.S. FEATURED CASE.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MAY 10, 2023

It is also counter to his administration’s goal of halving economy-wide greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and reaching net zero emissions by 2050. If a lease is producing or “known to contain valuable deposits of oil or gas,” it can only be cancelled “by court order.” Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Marathon Oil Co.

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