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Using State Law Before The Glaciers Thaw: Climate Torts After Bp V. Baltimore, Jillian Mayer
Using State Law Before The Glaciers Thaw: Climate Torts After Bp V. Baltimore, Jillian Mayer
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
We are living in the beginning stages of Earth’s sixth mass extinction. Since the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century, the burning of fossil fuels has released huge quantities of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gasses (“GHGs”) into the atmosphere. The increased concentration of GHGs causes the atmosphere to retain more heat. Consequently, ecosystems and weather patterns shift and change faster than most plants, animals, and human societies can adapt. Climate change threatens global peace, crashes economies, and creates humanitarian crises.
The Paris Agreement And Global Climate Litigation After The Trump Withdrawal, David Hunter
The Paris Agreement And Global Climate Litigation After The Trump Withdrawal, David Hunter
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
The article addresses the emergence of cases in many countries around the world that are addressing climate change by enforcing, or at least referring to, the Paris Agreement.