JURIST Guest Columnist Curtis Doebbler, professor of law at An-Najah National University in Nablus, Palestine, says that climate change will ravage the African continent if its leaders do not urgently assert their peoples' rights... Africa is the richest continent in...
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The General Court of the EU on Tuesday rejected a challenge to the EU's Emissions Trading Directive brought by Luxembourg-based Arcelor , the world's largest steel producer. The company sought both the...
The French Constitutional Council rejected a tax on carbon emissions Tuesday, stating there were too many exemptions for polluters in the plan. The tax, set to go into effect on January 1,...
No legally binding agreement on climate change reached at UN summit
While no legally binding agreement was reached at the conclusion of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP15) in Copenhagen, Denmark, 192 UN member countries agreed Saturday to take note of a non-binding Copenhagen Accord [text,...
Legally-binding climate treaty expected in 2010: UN Secretary-General
A legally-binding treaty on climate change should be ready in 2010, UN Secretary-General Ban-Ki Moon announced Monday during the 13th Session of the General Conference of the UN Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)...
EPA rules greenhouse gases threaten public health, environment
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced Monday a finding that greenhouse gases threaten public health and the environment. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson signed two separate findings Monday: that greenhouse gases "threaten...
The Australian Senate on Wednesday voted against legislation aimed at reducing carbon pollution. The Senate voted 41-33 against the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Bill 2009 and ten related bills that...
Legally binding agreement unlikely to emerge from climate summit: Obama
US President Barack Obama acknowledged Sunday that it is unlikely that the December UN Climate Change Conference (COP15) in Copenhagen, Denmark, will produce a legally binding agreement addressing global climate change. Deputy National Security Adviser...
Climate conference may not produce treaty: UN Secretary-General
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon attempted Tuesday to temper expectations for the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen set to take place in a month, saying that it might not result in a treaty. The...
Director of the UN secretary-generals Climate Change Support Team Janos Pasztor said Monday that a December UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark may not produce a treaty. Pasztor suggested that the success of the...
