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Compilation of International Authorities Supporting Specific Measures to Combat Climate Change Published by Columbia Law School Center for Climate Change Law
Posted on 13 Sep 2013 by Columbia Law - Sabin Center for Climate Change Law

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... Read More

Sustainable Development and the Brazilian Judge
Posted on 1 Dec 2015 by Columbia Law - Sabin Center for Climate Change Law

By Gabriel Wedy, Visiting Scholar, Brazilian Judge, and Law Professor at ESMAFE/RS* The approval of 17 goals and 169 targets for sustainable development by the United Nations Conference on Post-2015 Development Agenda is unquestionably an advance... Read More

CDP Announces Climate Change Reporting Changes for 2015
Posted on 5 May 2015 by Foley & Lardner LLP

The following post is provided by our guest author, Karen Lutz from TRC Environmental Corporation. Karen can be reached at klutz@trcsolutions.com . CDP, an international nonprofit organization that provides a global system for measuring, reporting... Read More

Ceres and a Series of Serious Thoughts About the NAIC Climate Disclosures - A Three Part Series
Posted on 24 Oct 2011 by J. Wylie Donald

Ceres released last month the first analysis of the insurer climate change disclosures submitted to state regulators pursuant to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners rule. The report is eye-opening. The authors have combed through the disclosures... Read More

UNFCCC makes major step towards incentivising wetland restoration
Posted on 18 Jun 2010 by Malcolm Dowden

By Malcolm Dowden, Solicitor and Environmental Law Consultant Despite widespread disappointment at the outcome of last year’s climate change summit in Copenhagen, quiet but significant progress has been made on issues such as reducing emissions... Read More