Mexican President Felipe Calderon has signed a climate change bill that will introduce sweeping environmental reform. The bill requires the country to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 30 percent by 2020, requires 35 percent of...
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The Mexican legislature passed a sweeping climate change bill on Thursday 128-10 in the Chamber of Deputies and unanimously in the Senate . The bill requires the country to reduce carbon dioxide...
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) on Wednesday upheld an EU law forcing foreign airlines using EU airports to pay fees for greenhouse gas emissions . The finding that the...
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Curtis Doebbler of Webster University and the Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations, both in Geneva, Switzerland, says that there is significant evidence that the Clean Development Mechanism of the Kyoto Protocol violates international law...
Canadian Minister of the Environment Peter Kent announced Monday that Canada will withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, making it the first country to do so. The treaty was signed...
UN climate change conference yields commitment to negotiate legally-binding initiatives
Delegates from 194 countries at the Durban UN Climate Change Conference in South Africa agreed on Sunday to negotiate global initiatives that would eventually force countries to take legally-binding action in order to slow the pace of...
JURIST Guest Columnist Hua Wang, Northwestern University School of Law Class of 2012, writes on the need for policies that combine market incentives with outright prohibitions to achieve enforcement and compliance with international environmental regimes...A regulatory framework allows countries to...
The European Union on Tuesday insisted that it will enforce its new cap-and-trade law on airline emissions for flights traveling to and from Europe despite strong opposition from the US. The new legislation,...
EU court advisor supports pollution fines against foreign airlines
The EU Court of Justice (ECJ) advocate general Juliane Kokott on Thursday issued an opinion stating that an EU law forcing foreign airlines using EU airports to pay fees for greenhouse gas emissions is lawful ....
Security Council declares global warming threat to international security
The UN Security Council on Wednesday made their first official statement implicating climate change as a serious threat to world peace and security. At the urging of Germany, which released a Concept Note to...