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No Reason To Wait: Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions Through The Clean Air Act, William Snape Jun 2009

No Reason To Wait: Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions Through The Clean Air Act, William Snape

Newsletters & Other Publications

In the United States, the legal and policy response to global warming has always lagged far behind the urgency of the problem as articulated by scientists and borne out in the real world. In the past five years, this mismatch has reached frightening proportions, with Arctic sea ice and glaciers rapidly retreating, rising and acidifying seas, stronger storms, more frequent and intense droughts and heat waves, looming species extinction and the climate related-deaths of 300,000 people each year. Leading scientists warn that atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have likely already exceeded safe levels and must therefore be reduced in the next …


Environmental Law Research Guide, Ripple Weistling Jan 2009

Environmental Law Research Guide, Ripple Weistling

Way2Search! Topical Instruction Series

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Environmental Legal Research, Ripple Weistling Jan 2009

Environmental Legal Research, Ripple Weistling

Way2Search! Topical Instruction Series

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The Role Of International Forums In The Advancement Of Sustainable Development, Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger Jan 2009

The Role Of International Forums In The Advancement Of Sustainable Development, Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

Climate advocates are increasingly raising specific climate change concerns before domestic courts, human rights tribunals, international commissions and other national and international decisionmaking bodies. Win or lose, these litigation strategies are significantly changing and enhancing the public dialogue around climate change. This article discusses the awareness-building impacts of climate litigation as well as related impacts such strategies may have on the development of climate law and policy. The article argues that litigation's focus on specific victims facing immediate threats from climate change has increased the political will to address climate change both internationally and nationally. It has also shifted the …


Environmental Litigation Standing After Massachusetts V. Epa: Center For Biological Diversity V. Epa , Andy Hosaido Jan 2009

Environmental Litigation Standing After Massachusetts V. Epa: Center For Biological Diversity V. Epa , Andy Hosaido

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

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Case Study: Climate Change Adaptation Planning Guidance For Local Governments In The United States, Edna Sussman Jan 2009

Case Study: Climate Change Adaptation Planning Guidance For Local Governments In The United States, Edna Sussman

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

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Volume 9 Issue 2, Sustainable Development Law & Policy Jan 2009

Volume 9 Issue 2, Sustainable Development Law & Policy

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

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Mongolia: A Case For Economic Diversification In The Face Of A Changing Climate, Nathan Borgford-Parnell Jan 2009

Mongolia: A Case For Economic Diversification In The Face Of A Changing Climate, Nathan Borgford-Parnell

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

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Intellectual Property Rights To Enhance International Clean Tech Transfers, Anastasia Lewandoski Jan 2009

Intellectual Property Rights To Enhance International Clean Tech Transfers, Anastasia Lewandoski

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

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Healthy Planet, Healthy People: Integrating Global Health Into The International Response To Climate Change, Lindsay Wiley Jan 2009

Healthy Planet, Healthy People: Integrating Global Health Into The International Response To Climate Change, Lindsay Wiley

Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals

The potentially groundbreaking negotiations currently underway on the international response to climate change and national implementation of commitments under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) include a number of hotly contested issues: (1) what degree of climate change is acceptable as a basis for emissions targets, (2) to what extent and in what ways climate change mitigation should incorporate emissions reductions or increased sinks for developing countries, (3) whether the legal regime governing mitigation can take advantage of the huge mitigation potential of changed practices in the land use and agricultural sectors, (4) how adaptation should be …


International Climate Negotiations: Opportunities And Challenges For The Obama Administration, David Hunter Jan 2009

International Climate Negotiations: Opportunities And Challenges For The Obama Administration, David Hunter

Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals

This article is a discussion of the international dimensions of climate change policy facing the newly-elected Obama Administration, focusing on the Kyoto Protocol and subsequent Bali Road Map and Bali Action Plan. The Bali Action Plan set out a framework for negotiating a post-Kyoto agreement with binding commitments on all parties. The agreement is due to be finalized at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) meeting in Copenhagen in December 2009, leaving the Obama Administration less than a year to shape its international climate policy and promote that policy effectively in the international negotiations.

The article addresses …


Editors' Note, Lisa Novins, Addie Haughey Jan 2009

Editors' Note, Lisa Novins, Addie Haughey

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

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An Overview Of This Issue: Climate Change In 2009, Perry Wallace Jan 2009

An Overview Of This Issue: Climate Change In 2009, Perry Wallace

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

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About Sdlp Jan 2009

About Sdlp

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

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Resolving The Climate Wars, Alan D. Hecht Jan 2009

Resolving The Climate Wars, Alan D. Hecht

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

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Pozna´N Climate Conference 2008, Kyle Ingram, Matt Irwin Jan 2009

Pozna´N Climate Conference 2008, Kyle Ingram, Matt Irwin

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

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Human Rights And Climate Change: Shifting The Burden To The State?, Anne Parsons Jan 2009

Human Rights And Climate Change: Shifting The Burden To The State?, Anne Parsons

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

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Could Litigation Help Torres Strait Islanders Deal With Climate Impacts?, Donna Green, Kirsty Ruddock Jan 2009

Could Litigation Help Torres Strait Islanders Deal With Climate Impacts?, Donna Green, Kirsty Ruddock

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

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Is The Endangered Species Act The Right Place To Set U.S. Climate Change Policy?, Chris Logan Jan 2009

Is The Endangered Species Act The Right Place To Set U.S. Climate Change Policy?, Chris Logan

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

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What Happens In Vegas. . . Needs Legislative Backup, Ursula Kazarian Jan 2009

What Happens In Vegas. . . Needs Legislative Backup, Ursula Kazarian

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

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Planning For Adaptation To Climate Change: Landmark Cases From Australia, Jacqueline Peel, Lee Godden Jan 2009

Planning For Adaptation To Climate Change: Landmark Cases From Australia, Jacqueline Peel, Lee Godden

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

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Dirty Fuel Incentives In The Bailout Bill, Rand Robins, Janet M. Hager Jan 2009

Dirty Fuel Incentives In The Bailout Bill, Rand Robins, Janet M. Hager

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

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European Union Coherence In Unfc Negotiations Under The New Treaty Of Lisbon (Reform Treaty), Stavros Afionis Jan 2009

European Union Coherence In Unfc Negotiations Under The New Treaty Of Lisbon (Reform Treaty), Stavros Afionis

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

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Creating A U.S. Carbon Market, Alex Hoover Jan 2009

Creating A U.S. Carbon Market, Alex Hoover

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

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Climate Change, Energy, And Sustainable Development In South Africa: Developing The African Continent At The Crossroads, Edson L. Meyer, Kola O. Odeku Jan 2009

Climate Change, Energy, And Sustainable Development In South Africa: Developing The African Continent At The Crossroads, Edson L. Meyer, Kola O. Odeku

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

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The World Bank Clean Technology Fund: Friend Or Foe To The Unfccc?, Addie Haughey Jan 2009

The World Bank Clean Technology Fund: Friend Or Foe To The Unfccc?, Addie Haughey

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

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Litigation Update: Winter V. Nrdc, Inc., Natalie Dillree Jan 2009

Litigation Update: Winter V. Nrdc, Inc., Natalie Dillree

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

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Book Review: Six Degrees: Our Future On A Hotter Planet By Mark Lynas, Matthew Padilla Jan 2009

Book Review: Six Degrees: Our Future On A Hotter Planet By Mark Lynas, Matthew Padilla

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

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Editors' Note, Lisa Novins, Addie Haughey Jan 2009

Editors' Note, Lisa Novins, Addie Haughey

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

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Perspective: Technology Transfer And Human Rights: Joining Up The Dots, Stephen Humphreys Jan 2009

Perspective: Technology Transfer And Human Rights: Joining Up The Dots, Stephen Humphreys

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

No abstract provided.