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Standing For Rivers, Mountains - And Trees - In The Anthropocene, David Takacs
Standing For Rivers, Mountains - And Trees - In The Anthropocene, David Takacs
Faculty Scholarship
In his well-known article, Should Trees Have Standing?—Toward Legal Rights for Natural Objects, Professor Christopher Stone proposed that courts grant nonhuman entities standing as plaintiffs so their interests may directly represented in court. In this Article, I review Stone’s ideas about standing and our relationship with the natural environment and describe the current, burgeoning, widespread trend toward granting not just standing, but legal rights and legal personhood to rivers, mountains, and other natural entities. I analyze the ways in which courts and legislatures in New Zealand, Australia, Colombia, and elsewhere are addressing concerns similar to Stone’s with expansive, even radical …
Debt-For-Development Exchanges: Using External Debt To Mitigate Environmental Damage In Developing Countries, Steven Freeland, Ross P. Buckley
Debt-For-Development Exchanges: Using External Debt To Mitigate Environmental Damage In Developing Countries, Steven Freeland, Ross P. Buckley
UC Law Environmental Journal
This article analyzes the conception, evolution and recent development of debt-for-nature exchange techniques. It explores how the lessons of the early, problematic exchanges have been learned and how the highly successful exchanges conducted recently in Madagascar, Egypt, and Kenya have been structured. It assesses the possibility of the Clean Development Mechanism under the Kyoto Protocol being tapped as a source of ongoing funding for projects, and concludes by arguing that, given the various benefits exchanges offer both donors and recipients, these techniques have been underutilized and deserve more careful consideration.
Carbon Intensity Standards: A Distraction And A Danger To Real Action On Climate Change, Andrew Greene
Carbon Intensity Standards: A Distraction And A Danger To Real Action On Climate Change, Andrew Greene
UC Law Environmental Journal
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