Should nature have rights? Join our discussion on 18 January with top legal experts Flora Curtis Paul Powlesland Environmental Law F.’s Emma Montlake Jérémie Gilbert and Joana Setzer
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International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea IUCN African Union COSIS on Climate Change and International Law Center for International Environmental Law ClientEarth - Anwälte der Erde 🕊 Seb Duyck - @duycks.bsky.social 🌍⚖️ Sidley Austin LLP The African Union Vanuatu UN IUCN-WCEL (World Commission on Environmental Law) Christina Voigt Cymie Tara Davenport 36/IUCN-WCEL (World Commission on Environmental Law) Christina Voigt Sets out normative parameters when carrying out their legal obligations under the Paris Agreement. Art 4 of PA can be read as a due diligence-obligation. This is a standard of conduct that states take all measures necessary to ⬆️ their ambition.

⚖ 🌊🌐 #ClimateJustice pleadings at Intern'al Tribunal on Law of Sea:
NGOs & 🇺🇳 #HumanRights experts cldnt intervene orally during this month's hearings
🗣In 🧵below, some key arguments laid out in several of their written interventions🗣
#ITLOSAO #ITLOSCase31

Final session of our Key Essentials - Sustainable Development Goals and the Law online course with fantastic guest speakers Erick J. Kassongo and Fabiano de Andrade Correa - Lucy Cavendish College Hughes Hall CISDL

This new General Comment is excellent. It centers the voices of children; explains how a range of children's rights depend on a healthy environment; endorses the human right to a healthy environment implicit in the Convention; and sets out clear obligations of States. Well done!

#Law and #Governance are tools at the disposal of the policymakers to limit global warming to 1.5 C and comply with the #ParisAgreement . We need to build #legalcapacity and adapt our governance models to respond to the threats caused by #climatechange .

Learn how results-based climate finance can drive broader climate interventions needed to achieve mitigation targets.

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A year ago, UNGA recognized the human right to a healthy environment. Today @AJILUnbound publishes a symposium on the right with essays by Philip Alston, Carmen Gonzalez, Hélène Tigroudja, Maria Antonia Tigre, Rosemary Mwanza Dr. Rosemary Mwanza & Professor Louis Kotzé. A link & description follow. 1/10

Take that in. Then try wrapping your head around the fact that we’re only seeing the beginning of a destabilising planet, while remembering that GHG emissions are still rising and the companies largely causing this are making record profits.

A bit concerning, don’t you think?

Some climate change deniers are complaining about the coloring of this map.

-'Why is almost everything yellow, red and white?'
-'Why do you use scary colors?'

40 Mkm² of ocean being almost completely above average is not something I like to see either.

I too, miss blue.

++BREAKING++

18 ministers from the 'High Ambition Coalition' group of nations have issued a letter calling for 'an urgent phase out from fossil fuels'...

'We must peak GHG
emissions by 2025 at the latest and reduce them by 43% by 2030 compared to 2019 levels'

#COP28

Brazil is a #nature powerhouse, being the most biodiverse country in the world and home to the largest share of the #Amazon rainforest, among other important ecosystems. In this regard, environmental protection and sustainability i…lnkd.in/d94rAPsT lnkd.in/d2HtSqws

Exciting news! The Climate Law and Governance Initiative is now accepting submissions for the 2023 Global Climate Law and Governance Essay Competition. Winners will be announced at an awards ceremony during COP28 in Dubai, UAE.

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A fantastic opportunity to join the Climate Law and Governance community with your own session or as a sponsor - we cannot wait to include you alongside COP28 UAE with our local partner universities. CISDL CEENRG

#Earthday2023 . I usually talk about legal issues, but this time I want to share a TV show I just finished watching, by coincidence, last night - the most interesting and thought provoking I've seen in a long while.

Extrapolations…lnkd.in/dSPfGRfA lnkd.in/dVX-nEKG

Im happy to share that I am starting a new position as Senior Legal Counsel with the The World Bank.

I'll be working with the International and Environmental Law Practice in particular on climate change and land matters, engaging on project and operation…lnkd.in/dzj9wgp7

#Environmentalcrime negatively impacts economies, health and safety, & undermines efforts undertaken by States to protect the env. and promote the #ruleoflaw .

Bjørn Berge today opened the negotiations on a 🆕🌍treaty on the protection of the environment through #criminallaw .

This week, the HR Council adopted a crucial resolution marking the shift from recognition to implementation of the human right to a healthy environment. In this thread, I describe its main elements, as well as the US reluctance to embrace the right. 1/15 ap.ohchr.org/documents/dpag…

🔥🎇historic moment!
🇺🇳UN General Assembly adopts *by consensus* resolution requesting ⚖️ International Court of Justice to clarify States' obligations re. to climate
📌This is a recognition by all States that legal obligations extend beyond the #ParisAgreement
#ClimateJustice