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Revisiting Transnational Corporations And Extractive Industries: Climate Justice, Feminism, And State Sovereignty, Sara Seck
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This Article explicitly examines the relationship between climate justice, gender, and transnational fossil fuel extractive industries by drawing upon feminist theoretical insights. First, I provide an overview of the differential impacts of climate change on women and briefly review insights from select international legal scholars who have considered gender and climate change. Second, I describe the Philippines climate petition, a novel attempt to seek an investigation into the accountability of transnational fossil fuel companies for climate harms. Third, I examine three sets of issues arising in the Philippines climate petition and draw explicitly upon Karen Knop’s Re/Statements: Feminism and State …
From Smokes To Smokestacks: Lessons From Tobacco For The Future Of Climate Change Liability, Martin Zp Olszynski, Sharon Mascher, Meinhard Doelle
From Smokes To Smokestacks: Lessons From Tobacco For The Future Of Climate Change Liability, Martin Zp Olszynski, Sharon Mascher, Meinhard Doelle
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In this article, we imagine a future Canada (circa 2030) wherein the world has managed to avoid the worst climate change but nevertheless has begun to experience considerable warming. Governments of all levels, but especially provincial ones, are incurring unprecedented costs to mitigate the effects of climate change and to adapt to new and uncertain climatic regimes. We then consider how legislatures might respond to these challenges. In our view, the answer may lie in the unprecedented story of tobacco liability, and especially the promulgation in the late 1990s of provincial legislation specifically designed to enable provinces to recover the …
Ea Expert Panel Report: Reflections On Canada's Proposed Next Generation Assessment Process, Meinhard Doelle, A. John Sinclair
Ea Expert Panel Report: Reflections On Canada's Proposed Next Generation Assessment Process, Meinhard Doelle, A. John Sinclair
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In this paper, we share our preliminary reflections on the Expert Panel Report on the reform of the federal environmental assessment process. The report, entitled: Building Common Ground: A New Vision for Impact Assessment in Canada, was released by Minister McKenna on April 5, 2017. The report is the result of an open and thorough public engagement process that heard from a large number of Canadians with a keen interest in EA. The Expert Panel Report offers a blueprint broadly consistent with proposals for next generation federal assessment. Some elements will require further thought, and much of the critical detail …
Nova Scotia's Cap & Trade System: A Modest Proposal, Meinhard Doelle
Nova Scotia's Cap & Trade System: A Modest Proposal, Meinhard Doelle
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The government of Nova Scotia has just released a discussion paper on its proposed Cap and Trade (C&T) System for provincial GHG emission reductions. The C&T system is a key component of Nova Scotia’s contribution to Canada’s overall effort to implement the Paris Climate Agreement in line with the Pan Canadian Framework on Climate Change. This article summarizes the key elements of the proposed system, identified shortcomings and proposes a way forward for Nova Scotia.
The Paris Climate Agreement – Assessment Of Strengths And Weaknesses, Meinhard Doelle
The Paris Climate Agreement – Assessment Of Strengths And Weaknesses, Meinhard Doelle
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This paper provides an overview of the core elements of the Paris Climate Agreement and offers an assessment of its key strength and weaknesses. The paper concludes with thoughts on what is required for its effective implementation.
The Lower Churchill Panel Review: Sustainability Assessment Under Legislative Constraints, Meinhard Doelle
The Lower Churchill Panel Review: Sustainability Assessment Under Legislative Constraints, Meinhard Doelle
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This paper reviews the experience of applying a sustainability framework in the assessment of the Lower Churchill Hydroelectric project in Labrador, Canada. In it's 2011 report, the Joint Review Panel proposed a decision-making framework for determining whether and how the project would make a net contribution to sustainability. In its framework, the panel considered the distribution of environmental, social, and economic impacts, benefits, risks and uncertainties.
Ea Expert Panel Report: A Preliminary Assessment Of Canada's Proposed New Federal Assessment Process, Meinhard Doelle
Ea Expert Panel Report: A Preliminary Assessment Of Canada's Proposed New Federal Assessment Process, Meinhard Doelle
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The paper offers an overview and assessment of the key recommendations of the EA Expert Panel's report on the reform of the federal environmental assessment process in Canada. The paper covers the proposed application of the process, the process and institutions, the proposed approach to jurisdictional cooperation, the scope, the role of regional and strategic assessments, public participation, the role of indigenous peoples, and follow up and compliance. The paper concludes that the report offers a very useful blueprint for reform, but that many details have yet to be worked out.
Looking Up, Down, And Sideways: Reconceiving Cumulative Effects Assessment As A Mindset, A. John Sinclair, Meinhard Doelle, Peter Duinker
Looking Up, Down, And Sideways: Reconceiving Cumulative Effects Assessment As A Mindset, A. John Sinclair, Meinhard Doelle, Peter Duinker
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Despite all the effort that has gone into defining, researching and establishing best practices for cumulative effects assessment (CEA), understanding remains weak and practice wanting. At one extreme of implementation, CEA can be described as merely an irritant to the completion of a project-specific environmental assessment (EA). At the other extreme, the conceptual view is that all effects in EA should be deemed cumulative unless demonstrated otherwise. Our purpose here is to consider how we might reconceive CEA as a mindset that is at the heart of absolutely every assessment of valued ecosystem component (VEC) to ensure that we understand …