by Fiona Kinniburgh, Summer Intern Columbia Law School’s Center for Climate Change Law has prepared a Compilation of International Authorities Supporting Specific Measures to Combat Climate Change. The document has been compiled to show the authority found for various specific measures that will help combat climate change and its impacts. […]
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On August 21, CCCL released a new white paper that evaluates the legal workability and constitutionality of regulating imports into the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, or “RGGI” (for background on RGGI, the Northeastern states’ cap-and-trade program for carbon dioxide, see prior posts). RGGI is currently in an exciting period of […]
By Ifeoma Anunkor, Summer Legal Intern Carbon pollution harms the economy much more than the federal government previously estimated, according to the Interagency Working Group on Social Cost of Carbon. While researchers continue to look for ways to reduce carbon emissions without harming the economy, the new guidance on the […]
by Shelley Welton, Fellow Although President Obama’s climate change speech on Tuesday, June 25 was relatively vague about the details of how carbon emissions from existing power plants would be regulated, the memorandum he issued to the EPA on that same day provides a few more interesting details.
by Xiaotang Wang CCCL has posted a new working paper by Xiaotang Wang that examines China’s emerging carbon emissions trading program. As a part of the effort to curb its soaring carbon emissions and realize “green growth,” China officially approved pilot carbon emissions trading schemes in seven provinces and cities […]
Teresa Parejo Professor of Law Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain) Spain has recently adopted a potentially promising reform to its coastal law to update it in response to climate change threats. However, a close read suggests that the reform contains contradictions that illuminate a less-public minded purpose behind the […]
Following a Monday, June 10 meeting in a state proceeding considering Con Edison’s plans to spend a proposed $2 billion to update the electricity system in the wake of Superstorm Sandy, CCCL and several other environmental groups have issued a joint press release that highlights our suggestions for how to […]
A new white paper by CCCL Visiting Fellow Stéphanie Chuffart examines how to improve technology transfer under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Response to climate change will critically depend on the cost, performance, and availability of technologies that can lower emissions and help us mitigate and […]