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- The “Emissions Shell Game” – the Production Gap and why we need to Keep it in the Ground
A shell game is where people move shells (or cups, or whatever) around on a table, with an object under just one of them – you have to pick the shell that has the pea under it. The key is that “it is almost always a confidence trick used to perpetrate fraud.” And that is accomplished by having you … Read more »
- Climate Justice Desserts: The UNGA is the Climate Justice Forum to Address the Prosecution of Heads of State for Climate Crime
(reposted with permission from https://law.lclark.edu/live/blogs/189-climate-justice-desserts-the-unga-is-the-climate, originally posted on April 20, 2022) Introduction – International justice out of balance A handful of states have gained incredible wealth and power while causing climate change, an … Read more »
- Climate Crime at the ICC – Environmental Justice through the Looking Glass
(reposted with permission from https://law.lclark.edu/live/blogs/177-climate-crime-at-the-icc-environmental-justice, originally posted on January 13, 2022) It is a fact, as well as a universally accepted view, that climate change has been caused primarily by western nations while poor and already di … Read more »
- IPCC AR6 WGII – the good news? Pushing for justice works.
Many people saw the February 28, 2022, IPCC report, IPCC AR6 WGII, Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability (IPCC AR6 WGII), as bad news, but in my view the bad news already happened. The bad news is – we are almost out of time, and we are already feeling impacts which will only g … Read more »
- European climate litigation successes: France (x2) and Ireland
There have been three major climate litigation victories in Europe in the last few months – two in France and one in Ireland. The cases are important nationally, but also internationally, as they set another example of nation-states being held accountable for a failure to meet climate targets. What … Read more »