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Full-Text Articles in Oil, Gas, and Mineral Law
Innovative Regulatory And Financial Parameters For Advancing Carbon Capture And Storage Technologies, Zen Makuch, Slavina Georgieva & Behdeen Oraee-Mirzamani
Innovative Regulatory And Financial Parameters For Advancing Carbon Capture And Storage Technologies, Zen Makuch, Slavina Georgieva & Behdeen Oraee-Mirzamani
Fordham Environmental Law Review
No abstract provided.
Lessons From Renewable Energy Diffusion For Carbon Dioxide Removal Development, Anthony E. Chavez
Lessons From Renewable Energy Diffusion For Carbon Dioxide Removal Development, Anthony E. Chavez
Fordham Environmental Law Review
No abstract provided.
Regaining Control Over The Climate Change Narrative: How To Stop Right-Wing Populism From Eroding Rule Of Law In The Climate Struggle In India, Binit Agrawal
Fordham Environmental Law Review
No abstract provided.
Textiles As A Source Of Microfiber Pollution And Potential Solutions, Lea M. Elston
Textiles As A Source Of Microfiber Pollution And Potential Solutions, Lea M. Elston
Fordham Environmental Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Comet Framework: Greenhouse Gas Data Transparency To Enable The Success Of Eu Climate Policy, Martin Dietrich Brauch, Solina Kennedy
The Comet Framework: Greenhouse Gas Data Transparency To Enable The Success Of Eu Climate Policy, Martin Dietrich Brauch, Solina Kennedy
Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment Staff Publications
To further and fully understand how to plan for the decarbonization of mining value chains, we need better data on carbon and other greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. However, neither consumers, corporates, or financial institutions know the embodied emissions in the products they produce or sell. While methods like life-cycle analysis and environmental product declarations exist, none use a verifiable, comparable, or widely adopted emissions reporting framework capable of sending supply chain signals.
To truly reform material supply chains, new solutions for markets, capital, and policy are required. COMET (the Coalition on Materials Emissions Transparency)—an alliance launched at Davos in January …
Free, Prior And Informed Consent: Addressing Political Realities To Improve Impact, Tehtena Mebratu-Tsegaye, Leila Kazemi
Free, Prior And Informed Consent: Addressing Political Realities To Improve Impact, Tehtena Mebratu-Tsegaye, Leila Kazemi
Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment Staff Publications
Indigenous and Tribal peoples’ right to free, prior and informed consent (FPIC) has transformative potential. Yet, there is a considerable gap between the theory and what happens in practice. Global actors supporting recognition of FPIC and effective prior consultation processes usually focus on normative standards and best practices. They concentrate much less on addressing the political challenges and opportunities that shape how these processes unfold.
With funding from the Ford Foundation, we looked at the politics of FPIC in Latin America, analyzing how the power and interests of the key players–across governments, companies and indigenous peoples–can determine the fate of …
Table Of Contents, Seattle University Law Review
Table Of Contents, Seattle University Law Review
Seattle University Law Review
Table of Contents
Equipping The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation For The Low-Carbon Transition: How Are Other National Oil Companies Adapting?, Perrine Toledano, Martin Dietrich Brauch, Tehtena Mebratu-Tsegaye, Francisco Javier Pardinas Favela
Equipping The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation For The Low-Carbon Transition: How Are Other National Oil Companies Adapting?, Perrine Toledano, Martin Dietrich Brauch, Tehtena Mebratu-Tsegaye, Francisco Javier Pardinas Favela
Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment Staff Publications
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation’s (NNPC) persistent governance challenges have both hampered Nigeria’s oil sector development and deprived the country of public resources. The oil, climate, and COVID-19 crises and the ramp-up of the low-carbon transition exacerbate this reality, with the national oil company (NOC) delivering sub-optimal returns to its stakeholders.
Other NOCs have taken meaningful steps to become players in the low-carbon energy transition domestically or internationally – for example, Saudi Arabia’s Saudi Aramco, Norway’s Equinor, Brazil’s Petrobras, Malaysia’s Petronas, and Algeria’s Sonatrach. These NOCs can serve as sources of inspiration for NNPC. These five NOCs have also undergone …
Mining And The Sdgs: A 2020 Status Update, Responsible Mining Foundation, Columbia Center On Sustainable Investment
Mining And The Sdgs: A 2020 Status Update, Responsible Mining Foundation, Columbia Center On Sustainable Investment
Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment Staff Publications
In September 2015, the UN member states agreed on a set of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which represent the global agenda for equitable, socially inclusive, and environmentally sustainable economic development until 2030. Mining companies have the potential to become leading partners in achieving the SDGs. Through their direct operations, mining companies can generate profits, employment, and economic growth in low-income countries. And through partnerships with government and civil society, mining companies can ensure that benefits of mining extend beyond the life of the mine itself, so that the mining industry has a positive impact on the natural environment, climate …
Getting The Most Out Of Extractive Industries Transparency: How A More Explicit Treatment Of Political Considerations Could Strengthen The Impact Of Transparency Efforts, Columbia Center On Sustainable Investment
Getting The Most Out Of Extractive Industries Transparency: How A More Explicit Treatment Of Political Considerations Could Strengthen The Impact Of Transparency Efforts, Columbia Center On Sustainable Investment
Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment Staff Publications
Work on transparency in the extractive industries (EI) has achieved important successes over the last two decades. For example, significant commitments to disclosure have been secured, the volume of publicly available information about critical activities has increased considerably, and norms around certain information being in the public domain have been established. There is also a growing library of use cases for this information. Nonetheless, important work remains to be done to translate these efforts into impact.
Political context is crucial to determining the fate of transparency efforts. Therefore, grappling with political context more effectively will also be key to unlocking …
Incorporating Free, Prior And Informed Consent (Fpic) Into Investment Approval Processes, Kelly Dudine, Sam Szoke-Burke
Incorporating Free, Prior And Informed Consent (Fpic) Into Investment Approval Processes, Kelly Dudine, Sam Szoke-Burke
Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment Staff Publications
Investment approval processes are the gateway through which governments set the agenda for their country’s investment environment. Yet too often these processes fail to incorporate meaningful requirements regarding participation in decision-making by Indigenous and other affected communities, increasing the risk of under-performing and conflict-ridden investments.
Enabling meaningful participation by rights holders and obtaining and maintaining their Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) throughout different investment approval processes can help governments to fulfill their legal obligations, mitigate financial and political risk, and, ultimately, attract more sustainable land-based investments.
Featuring concrete guidance and drawing on case studies from Kenya, Liberia, Mexico, Peru, …
Don’T Throw Caution To The Wind: In The Green Energy Transition, Not All Critical Minerals Will Be Goldmines, Perrine Toledano, Martin Dietrich Brauch, Solina Kennedy, Howard Mann
Don’T Throw Caution To The Wind: In The Green Energy Transition, Not All Critical Minerals Will Be Goldmines, Perrine Toledano, Martin Dietrich Brauch, Solina Kennedy, Howard Mann
Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment Staff Publications
The green energy transition will be exceedingly mineral intensive. Manufacturing solar panels, wind turbine and batteries to power cleaner energies is set to significantly increase the demand for co-called “critical” minerals. Such a forecast prompts high expectations in mineral-rich countries and suggests promising opportunities for developing countries.
However, the projects to increase the primary extraction of critical minerals rest on bullish forecasts and uncertain terrain due to a number of factors explored in the paper that threaten to leave these investments obsolete and economically stranded.
Governments, international actors, and mining advocates seeking to optimize the value of green energy mineral …
Mechanisms For Consultation And Free, Prior And Informed Consent In The Negotiation Of Investment Contracts, Sam Szoke-Burke, Kaitlin Y. Cordes
Mechanisms For Consultation And Free, Prior And Informed Consent In The Negotiation Of Investment Contracts, Sam Szoke-Burke, Kaitlin Y. Cordes
Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment Staff Publications
Investor-state contracts are regularly used in low-and middle-income countries to grant concessions for land-based and natural resource investments, such as agricultural, extractive industry, forestry, or renewable energy projects. These contracts are rarely negotiated in the presence of, or with meaningful input from, the people who risk being adversely affected by the project. This practice will usually risk violating requirements for meaningful consultation, and, where applicable, free, prior and informed consent (FPIC), and is particularly concerning when the investor-state contract gives the investor company rights to lands or resources over which local communities have legitimate claims.
This article explores how consultation …
Best Practices In Data Driven Development Planning In Mining Regions, Nicolas Maennling, Josefina Correa
Best Practices In Data Driven Development Planning In Mining Regions, Nicolas Maennling, Josefina Correa
Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment Staff Publications
Strategic development planning has long been used by private and public sectors to guide actions that will lead to a determined goal in the medium- to long-term. The SDG framework has helped to create a common language of what development means, what the global objectives are by 2030, and how progress can be measured. With the world entering an era in which data is generated and used at an unprecedented scale, data and ICT systems should be used to better inform policy decision making and help evaluate progress to hold stakeholders accountable to their promises and performance. This report outlines …
Pakootas V. Teck Cominco Metals, Ltd., Connlan W. Whyte
Pakootas V. Teck Cominco Metals, Ltd., Connlan W. Whyte
Public Land & Resources Law Review
Throughout the twentieth century, Teck Cominco Metals leaked metal pollutants into the Upper Columbia River that ultimately entered the United States and the Colville Indian Reservation. In 2004, after almost a decade of working with the United States Environmental Protection Agency, the Colville Tribes initiated a citizen suit under CERCLA against Teck for damaging the ecosystem of the Upper Columbia River. In 2018, the Ninth Circuit affirmed judgment against Teck for recovery costs and attorney’s fees.
Space Governance 3.0, Brian R. Israel
Space Governance 3.0, Brian R. Israel
Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law
No abstract provided.
End Notes, Sustainable Development Law & Policy
End Notes, Sustainable Development Law & Policy
Sustainable Development Law & Policy
No abstract provided.
State Preemption And Single Use Plastics: Is National Intervention Necessary?, Ethan D. King
State Preemption And Single Use Plastics: Is National Intervention Necessary?, Ethan D. King
Sustainable Development Law & Policy
No abstract provided.
The Right To Legally Sourced Lumber? How The Effective Enforcement Of The Lacey Act Is A U.S. Human Rights Obligation And Critical To Preventing Abuse In The Illegal Logging Industry, Melanie Hess
Sustainable Development Law & Policy
No abstract provided.
An Ace Up Their Sleeve Or A House Of Cards: Can The Epa's Affordable Clean Energy Rule Withstand Chevron Deference?, Shannon Zaret
An Ace Up Their Sleeve Or A House Of Cards: Can The Epa's Affordable Clean Energy Rule Withstand Chevron Deference?, Shannon Zaret
Sustainable Development Law & Policy
No abstract provided.
Lake Erie Bill Of Rights Gets The Ax: Is Legal Personhood For Nature Dead In The Water?, Devon Alexandra Berman
Lake Erie Bill Of Rights Gets The Ax: Is Legal Personhood For Nature Dead In The Water?, Devon Alexandra Berman
Sustainable Development Law & Policy
No abstract provided.
The Use Of The Regular Militaries For Natural Disaster Assistance: Climate Change And The Increasing Need For Changes To The Laws In The United States, China, Japan, The Philippines, And Other Countries, Donald D.A. Schaefer
Sustainable Development Law & Policy
No abstract provided.
Editor's Note, Brianna Delduca, Hannah Gardenswartz
Editor's Note, Brianna Delduca, Hannah Gardenswartz
Sustainable Development Law & Policy
No abstract provided.
End Notes, Sustainable Development Law & Policy
End Notes, Sustainable Development Law & Policy
Sustainable Development Law & Policy
No abstract provided.
How Syria's Failure To Uphold The Kyoto Protocol And Paris Agreement Exacerbated The Effects Of Climate Change In The Levant, Nivea A. Ohri
How Syria's Failure To Uphold The Kyoto Protocol And Paris Agreement Exacerbated The Effects Of Climate Change In The Levant, Nivea A. Ohri
Sustainable Development Law & Policy
No abstract provided.
Continuing A Broad Application Of Section 9 Of The Esa To Prevent Future Mass Extinctions, Alicia Martinez
Continuing A Broad Application Of Section 9 Of The Esa To Prevent Future Mass Extinctions, Alicia Martinez
Sustainable Development Law & Policy
No abstract provided.
Does Importing Endangered Species' Body Parts Help Conservation? Discretion To Import Trophies Under The Trump Administration, Brianna Marie
Does Importing Endangered Species' Body Parts Help Conservation? Discretion To Import Trophies Under The Trump Administration, Brianna Marie
Sustainable Development Law & Policy
No abstract provided.
Ferc Ruling Undermines Energy Federalism And Arbitrarily Targets Mid-Atlantic Region Renewables, Philip Killeen
Ferc Ruling Undermines Energy Federalism And Arbitrarily Targets Mid-Atlantic Region Renewables, Philip Killeen
Sustainable Development Law & Policy
No abstract provided.
Jam V. Ifc: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back?, Nicholas Johnson
Jam V. Ifc: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back?, Nicholas Johnson
Sustainable Development Law & Policy
No abstract provided.
Can The Expansion Of 45q Effectively Spur Investment In Carbon Capture?, Shannon Zaret
Can The Expansion Of 45q Effectively Spur Investment In Carbon Capture?, Shannon Zaret
Sustainable Development Law & Policy
No abstract provided.