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Small island nations to testify before international tribunal seeking advice on obligations to reduce marine pollution

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Island nations are facing threatening circumstances with respect to food, energy and infrastructure from sea-level rise and climate change. Island nations are facing threatening circumstances with respect to food, energy and infrastructure from sea-level rise and climate change. Other members include Niue, Palau, St.

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Chile’s Lithium Boom: A Green Revolution or Environmental Ruin?

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Lithium has become a cornerstone of the global energy transition, powering technologies central to decarbonization efforts, such as electric vehicle batteries and large-scale renewable energy storage. At stake is a fundamental question: is Chile genuinely building a sustainable future, or simply rebranding extractivism in green terms?

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Finding Light in Dark Places: Specific Obligations for Climate Change and Ocean Acidification Mitigation

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The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (the Tribunal, ITLOS) established the gravity of this question by stating that “climate change represents an existential threat and raises human rights concerns” (para. 29, citing the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, article 31).

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Tech Industry Coming to Terms with Water Consumption

Intelligize Blog

As the crypto industry has aged, we’ve learned more about the environmental impact of bitcoin mining – chiefly that it is an extraordinarily resource-intensive endeavor. China is experimenting with a unique solution to the problem: a first-of-its-kind underwater data center. We should probably add cryptocurrency to that list as well.

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Navigating the Intersection of Climate Change and the Law of the Sea: Exploring the ITLOS Advisory Opinion’s Substantive Content

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Despite the ongoing debate on whether ITLOS has jurisdiction to issue an advisory opinion on climate change, if the Tribunal asserts jurisdiction (on jurisdiction, see here and here) , there is still much to uncover. These rules are, in effect, binding norms incorporated into UNCLOS.

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The Sand Shortage, and Why It Matters

LegalReader

Human beings are using sand faster than nature can make more of it. The sand shortage will affect all of us, but will we adapt?

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Arbitration-Favored Policy Has its Boundary: Case Study and Takeaways for China

Conflict of Laws

candidate at the University of Macau, a trainee lawyer in Mainland China). (This post is written by Chen Zhi, a Ph.D. While the decision of Morgan v. Sundance Inc. Summary of the Fact. Nonetheless, the Court of Appeal of the Eighth Circuit had adopted the requirement for waiver based on the “federal policy favoring arbitration”.