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Articles 1 - 14 of 14
Full-Text Articles in Environmental Law
The Effect Of Allowing Pollution Offsets With Imperfect Enforcement, Hilary A. Sigman, Howard F. Chang
The Effect Of Allowing Pollution Offsets With Imperfect Enforcement, Hilary A. Sigman, Howard F. Chang
All Faculty Scholarship
Several pollution control regimes, including climate change policies, allow polluters in one sector subject to an emissions cap to offset excessive emissions in that sector with pollution abatement in another sector. The government may often find it more costly to verify offset claims than to verify compliance with emissions caps, and concerns about difficulties in enforcement may lead regulators to restrict the use of offsets. In this paper, we demonstrate that allowing offsets may increase pollution abatement and reduce illegal pollution, even if the government has a fixed enforcement budget. We explore the circumstances that may make it preferable to …
Climate Change, Streamflows, And Water Management Implications In The Upper Rio Grande Watershed, Brian H. Hurd
Climate Change, Streamflows, And Water Management Implications In The Upper Rio Grande Watershed, Brian H. Hurd
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No abstract provided.
Sec Opens The Door For Climate Change-Related Shareholder Proposals And Disclosure Requirements, With Potential New Liabilites For Public Companies, Matthew P. Allen, Eric M. Jamison, Mark J. Bennett
Sec Opens The Door For Climate Change-Related Shareholder Proposals And Disclosure Requirements, With Potential New Liabilites For Public Companies, Matthew P. Allen, Eric M. Jamison, Mark J. Bennett
Eric Jamison
The 2009 proxy season saw a record number of shareholder resolutions related to climate change that were directed at a range of industries, including automotive, finance, building, oil, and power generation. Investors are increasingly seeking information from publicly held companies regarding their relative risk position to climate change. Shareholder resolutions seek information about greenhouse gas emissions, energy usage, and go as far as seeking emissions reduction targets. Shareholders are even requesting that financial institutions and banks adopt resolutions limiting or eliminating their lending and investment relationships with companies that present environmental risk. Historically, companies were generally entitled to exclude environmental …
Ahistorical Indians And Reservation Resources, Ezra Rosser
Ahistorical Indians And Reservation Resources, Ezra Rosser
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
The article is an in-depth exploration of the impacts of an Indian tribe's decision to pursue an environmentally destructive form of economic development. The history of Navajo Nation's coal leasing provides the background for the tribe's recent proposal to build a coal-fired power plant and the controversies surrounding the proposal and the environmental review process.
Mitigation/Adaptation And Health: Health Policymaking In The Global Response To Climate Change And Implications For Other Upstream Determinants, Lindsay Wiley
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
No abstract provided.
The Copenhagen Accord And The Future Of The International Climate Change Regime, Francesco Sindico
The Copenhagen Accord And The Future Of The International Climate Change Regime, Francesco Sindico
Francesco Sindico
This paper analyses the environmental integrity, the nature and the political relevance of the Copenhagen Accord. According to the first two parameters, the Copenhagen Accord is not satisfactory. From a political point of view the conclusion is slightly different, albeit not positive. This paper concludes arguing that after the Copenhagen Conference the future of the international climate change legal regime is likely to be more fragmented, the Accord being one further piece of the global carbon puzzle.
China In Context: Energy, Water, And Climate Cooperation, Prof. Elizabeth Burleson
China In Context: Energy, Water, And Climate Cooperation, Prof. Elizabeth Burleson
Prof. Elizabeth Burleson
Climate resilient communities can be achieved with the support of global research, development, deployment, and diffusion of environmentally sound low GHG emission technologies and processes. Technology cooperation should lower emissions remaining mindful of biodiversity, ecosystem services and livelihoods. China and the United States need to respond effectively to both economic and climate crises and can do so in part by cooperating on environmentally sound technology that transforms the global use of energy.
Collaborative Community-Based Natural Resource Management, Prof. Elizabeth Burleson
Collaborative Community-Based Natural Resource Management, Prof. Elizabeth Burleson
Prof. Elizabeth Burleson
This article analyzes the importance of increasing civil society actor access to and influence in international legal and policy negotiations, drawing from academic scholarship on governance, conservation and environmental sustainability, natural resource management, observations of civil society actors, and the authors’ experiences as participants in international environmental negotiations.
Hot Points Special Edition Climate Change, Eric Jamison
Hot Points Special Edition Climate Change, Eric Jamison
Eric Jamison
Hot Points Special Edition Climate Change focuses on legal developments related to the emerging trends in climate law and policy.
Human Rights Implications For The Climate Negotiations, David Hunter
Human Rights Implications For The Climate Negotiations, David Hunter
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
Symposium: The Confluence of Human Rights and the EnvironmentINTRODUCTION: According to John Holdren, the Science Advisor to President Obama, humanity can only respond to climate change in three ways. We can mitigate climate change, for example by reducing greenhouse gas emissions; we can adapt to climate change, for example by defending our coastlines; or we can suffer from climate change. Given current emission levels and projected climate change impacts, we are inevitably going to do some of all three. A human rights approach, the subject of this Article, puts the focus on those who will suffer from climate change, in …
Implications Of The Copenhagen Accord For Global Climate Change, David Hunter
Implications Of The Copenhagen Accord For Global Climate Change, David Hunter
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
No abstract provided.
The Copenhagen Climate Talks: The End Of The Road For The Unfcc Or A Step Forward In The Evolution Of The Regime, Meinhard Doelle
The Copenhagen Climate Talks: The End Of The Road For The Unfcc Or A Step Forward In The Evolution Of The Regime, Meinhard Doelle
Articles, Book Chapters, & Popular Press
This paper offers an overview of the key outcomes of the 2009 climate negotiations in Copenhagen and consider their implications for the evolution of the UN Climate Regime.
The Legacy Of The Climate Talks In Copenhagen: Hopenhagen Or Brokenhagen?, Meinhard Doelle
The Legacy Of The Climate Talks In Copenhagen: Hopenhagen Or Brokenhagen?, Meinhard Doelle
Articles, Book Chapters, & Popular Press
This article explores the implications of the Copenhagen climate talks in December 2009 for the future of the international climate change regime.
Early Experience With The Kyoto Compliance System: Possible Lessons For Mea Compliance System Design, Meinhard Doelle, Meinhard Doelle
Early Experience With The Kyoto Compliance System: Possible Lessons For Mea Compliance System Design, Meinhard Doelle, Meinhard Doelle
Articles, Book Chapters, & Popular Press
Regardless of the future of the Kyoto compliance system, much of its work will continue to be important both for the climate change regime and for other MEAs. While it is impossible to make accurate predictions about the substance of the climate change regime after 2012, it is nevertheless important to reflect on the experience with the Kyoto compliance system to date for MEA compliance generally. Adjustments to the Kyoto compliance system necessitated by post 2012 changes to the substantive obligations can, of course, only be considered once those changes are known. The central question posed in this article is …