Sabin Center for Climate Change Law

09/11/2024

⭕ 🌏 ‼️ The is looking forward to hosting a number of Climate Week NYC 2024 events on wide ranging topics, including renewable energy impacts, marine carbon dioxide removal, international & U.S. climate litigation and much more. Check out our current list of events: https://buff.ly/3AJOXGo

06/27/2024

🔎 Our work spans many areas: 🌏 ⚖️ , Legal 🛣️ to , 🏙️ climate policies, climate💸, accelerating the transition, ⚖️ for negative emissions, international law, 🔦 Promoting , land use law & more: https://buff.ly/3HpTKgb

06/27/2024

🚨🚚🏙️Today, the Sabin Center published a new report on “Cities, E-commerce & Public Health” in which author & Director of the Cities Climate Law Initiative Amy Turner lays out 3 legal pathways to limiting freight .

Blog ➡️https://i.mtr.cool/aicwogtbut
Report is available ⤵️
https://i.mtr.cool/innrhuufij

06/26/2024

📌🌥️⚖️Check out the Center and Center on Global Energy Policy's Carbon Dioxide Removal Law database that provides materials related to removal and carbon and use.
Learn more: https://i.mtr.cool/bsksrqaeax

06/26/2024

🚨🌏 📈 The Sabin Center published two NEW reports on the connection between , health impacts, and State obligations under .
Blog post ➡️https://i.mtr.cool/alztrvdgwj
Full papers:
1️⃣ https://i.mtr.cool/kpclqafrmi 2️⃣https://i.mtr.cool/ydujhmxulj

Key findings of state responsibilities:
🩹Protect health and well-being of migrants and displaced people
🌏Mitigate climate change
⚖️Uphold refugee and human rights law
✅Guarantee non-discriminatory access to resources

06/25/2024

☀️🌬️📰"If we can overcome some of these local obstacles, the market is right for really significant growth of [renewables]," Jacob Elkin was quoted in an article about US reliance on fossil fuels during heat waves. Read here ⤵️

The transition to clean energy has been slow in the United States, one of the world's top oil-producing nations. But as extreme weather events strike more often, Americans are looking for more government action on clean energy – something would-be president Trump plans to roll back.

06/25/2024

🌍📚 Join the Sabin Center's Peer Review Network of Global Climate Litigation – a fast growing network of global scholars and practitioners who work to ensure our Global Climate Litigation database is accurate and comprehensive.

Check out the network!
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06/24/2024

🚨🌍 📈 The Sabin Center publishes two NEW reports on the connection between , health impacts, and State obligations under .
Blog post ➡️https://i.mtr.cool/bgjfitygkn
Full papers:
1️⃣ https://i.mtr.cool/poymtthctg
2️⃣ https://i.mtr.cool/ijkpsmzqlr

06/24/2024

🛢️🗞️“That could deprive the oil companies of one of the four votes they need for the Court to take the case, and one of the five votes they need to win,” said Michael Gerrard in a New York Times article about Justice Alito’s recusal from the Honolulu v Sunoco big oil case. Read it here ➡️https://i.mtr.cool/rijkqcuwrs

The Supreme Court may soon decide the fate of dozens of cases brought by cities and states that seek to hold fossil fuel companies accountable.

06/24/2024

🔎💵🌊Check out the NEW entry on the Sabin Center and Environmental Defense Fund National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration announces $60M to advance a climate-ready workforce for coastal and great lake states, Tribes, and Territories. ➡️

NOAA announced $60 million to advance a climate-ready workforce for coastal and Great Lake states, Tribes, and Territories.

06/21/2024

🏖️🌊“Florida is one of the most vulnerable states in the country. All of South is at great peril from level rise,” said our Faculty Director Michael Gerrard: https://i.mtr.cool/ygripjdizk

Republican governors are going out of their way to avoid the reality of climate change and its impact on their state’s citizens. Some have decided to deal with the problem by removing the words “cl…

06/21/2024

⚖️🏢📑Today, the Sabin Center filed an amicus brief, emphasizing the important role that local governments play in reducing GHG emissions statewide, and the chilling effect that a lack of certainty about preemption by the CLCPA could have on local . Read about the brief ⤵️

Sabin Center Files Amicus Brief Supporting New York City’s Motion to Appeal in Local Law 97 Case