Category: Climate Change
ADPF708 / Climate Fund. What to expect from Brazil’s first public hearing on climate policy?
Maria Antonia Tigre & Alex Goodman This week, on September 21 and 22, 2020, the Brazilian Supreme Federal Court (STF) will hold the country’s first public hearing on environmental and climate policy. The hearing, on Case ADPF 708 (previously ADO60), has the goal of producing an official report on the state of Brazil’s environmental policy. In calling…
A Breathtaking View of the Kidron Valley
by Richard Laster[1] & Dan Livney[2] “Jerusalem: A port city, on the edge of eternity”.[3] When Yehuda Amichai wrote these lines, he did not envision Jerusalem as a “port city” overlooking twenty-five million cubic meters of raw sewage in the Kidron Valley. [4] But that is how the citizens of Jerusalem view the Palestinian Authority,…
Climate Change in the Anthropocene
GNHRE Europe held a workshop on Climate Justice in the Anthropocene on 2-3 May 2019 at the International Institute for the Sociology of Law in Oñati, Spain. The workshop was conceived, initiated and coordinated by Sam Adelman and Luis Kotze, and attended by several GNHRE members. Over two days, participants from all over the world…
Urgenda Climate Change Judgment Survives Appeal in the Netherlands
By Jonathan Verschuuren This blog post was originally published on the Tilburg University Environmental Law Blog Today, the Higher Court in the Dutch city of The Hague rendered its judgement in the Urgenda case. As explained here, in 2015, the District Court decided that the Dutch State acted negligently and therefore unlawfully towards the environmental NGO…
Blog: Climate Change Law, Litigation and Governance
By Dr. Sam Adelman with assistance from Sanjeeb Hossain A workshop titled Climate Change Law, Litigation and Governance was held at the University of Warwick on February 18, 2018. The workshop was organised jointly by the Centre for Law, Regulation and Governance of the Global Economy (GLOBE) at Warwick Law School, the School of Law,…
