📚 For more information about Held v. Montana from @SabinCenter’s legal experts, visit our webpage with updates on the latest articles about the pivotal climate trial win: https://climate.law.columbia.edu/news/sabin-center-staff-weigh-held-v-montana-case 🌍🔍 #ClimateLaw

🌱 Join us in shaping climate resilience in finance! The @SabinCenter is extending the deadline to apply for the ICRRL Fellowship to September 15. Contribute to climate risk efforts, engage in regulatory proceedings, & more. Apply here: https://climate.law.columbia.edu/content/jobs-internships-sabin-center
#JobOpportunity #ClimateLaw

📚 #FridayReads: Modelling Climate Litigation Risk for (Re)Insurers is toolkit by #climatelaw fellow Martin Lockman to help academics, attorneys, insurance practitioners, industry regulators model (re)insurer #climatelitigation risk. Learn more: https://blogs.law.columbia.edu/climatechange/2023/07/21/a-climate-adaptation-toolkit-for-the-insurance-industry/
Report: https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/sabin_climate_change/201/

🔎 Visit our & Environmental Defense Fund's #InflationReductionAct Tracker: https://iratracker.org
🌐 Database compiles information about #climatechange-related provisions
🎯 Tracker captures actions taken by federal agencies to implement the provisions
#resources #climatelaw

On April 14, 2023, Justice Vermette released her reasons in Mathur v. His Majesty the King in Right of Ontario, 2023 ONSC 2316 (Mathur), the #first #CharterChallenge in #Ontario against a #government actor for actions taken related to #ClimateChange to reach a #FullHearing on its merits in any #Canadian #court

https://www.osler.com/en/resources/regulations/2023/first-justiciable-climate-claim-in-ontario-mathur-v-ontario

#Canada #legal #CaseStudy #ecojustice #EnvironmentalLaw #ClimateLaw #ClimateJustice #CourtCase #Lawsuit #CanadianLaw

📰 New York Adopts Nation's Strongest Environmental Justice Law, by Michael B. Gerrard and Edward McTiernan, New York Law Journal: https://buff.ly/3M9ZuwF #NewYork #climatelaw #environmentaljustice #FridayReads

🔍 🗽 Check out our NY #ClimateLaw Trackers:

🎯 #NYC tracker monitors the progress in implementing laws like the Climate Mobilization Act: https://climate.law.columbia.edu/content/nyc-climate-law-tracker…
🎯 #NY tracker monitors the progress in implementing its #CLCPA, #EJ Law among others: https://climate.law.columbia.edu/content/new-york-state-climate-law-tracker

📰 New York Adopts Nation's Strongest Environmental Justice Law, by Michael B. Gerrrard and Edward McTiernan: https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/faculty_scholarship/3936/ (New York Law Journal) #climatelaw #NewYork #environmentaljustice

#FridayReads: Firms are very good at looking several quarters out, and increasingly capable of telling stories about their place in the stylized distant futures of climate economic models. They remain blind to the disorderly, divergent, and rapid social, economic, and policy changes just beyond the corporate horizon. Our senior fellow Ilmi Granoff breaks this down for us: https://blogs.law.columbia.edu/climatechange/2023/05/04/the-tragedy-on-the-financial-horizon-is-closer-than-you-think/ #climatefinance #climatelaw

🎥 Our senior fellow Amy Turner spoke with CBS News about New York’s new building #electrification law and what it means for cleaner and better buildings around the country: https://www.cbsnews.com/video/n-y-bans-natural-gas-stoves-in-new-buildings/ #cities #climatelaw

💼 🔎 Check out the#jobs & #Internship opportunities at the Sabin Center! We are seeking talented candidates for various positions, including for the Cities #ClimateLaw Initiative, the Climate Law & Finance Initiative and a climate communications intern: https://climate.law.columbia.edu/content/jobs-internships-sabin-center

📍 This week, our executive director Michael Burger & climate law fellow Martin Lockman are in London, where they wil be participating in discussions on climate-related liability risk exposures and opportunities for businesses: https://events.wtwco.com/event/faa48b77-1018-4cc7-a05f-559fb94fc249/summary?RefId=Summary #climaterisk #climatelaw #WTWClimate

#FridayReads: 📘: Global Climate Change and U.S. Law: Third Edition, by Michael Gerrard, Jody Freeman, and Michael Burger. Read up on recent developments of U.S. #climatelaw: #IRA, #WestVAvEPA decision & SEC's proposed climate disclosure rule: https://buff.ly/3YEAUZq

Our #climateattribution database is a repository of scientific information relevant to #climatelitigation & policy-making -- it contains 542 resources under 4 attribution themes:
✅#ClimateChange
✅Extreme Event
✅Impact
✅Source
https://buff.ly/3kjEgCC #climatelaw #resources

#FridayReads: 📘: Global Climate Change and U.S. Law: Third Edition, by Michael Gerrard, Jody Freeman, and Michael Burger. Read up on recent developments of U.S. #climatelaw: #IRA, #WestVAvEPA decision & SEC's proposed climate disclosure rule: https://www.americanbar.org/products/inv/book/427734122/

The #brief is available here: https://climate.law.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/content/docs/comments%20and%20legal%20briefs/State_of_Texas,_et_al_v._EPA,__122.pdf #climatelaw #climatelitigation

"This will be a landmark case for France and climate litigation worldwide for manifold reasons. First, the Law on the Duty of Vigilance aims to hold the corporation liable for the activities of its subsidiaries and its value chain participants worldwide. Indeed, in climate litigation, comparative law plays a prominent role: “big cases” serve as models to other jurisdictions."

#ClimateLaw
#ClimateLitigation

https://blogs.law.columbia.edu/climatechange/2023/03/03/french-ngos-target-banks-activities-contributing-to-climate-change/

"If launched at the right moment, with the right litigant and a strategic target, the results of litigation can be robust. One recent case from Australia — Bushfire Survivors for Climate Action Inc. v Environment Protection Authority – provides a good example."

#ClimateLaw
#ClimateLitigation

https://blogs.law.columbia.edu/climatechange/2023/02/27/after-judgment-australian-regulator-compelled-to-act-on-climate-following-successful-intervention/

NEW on our #ClimateLaw Blog: Our rapporteur for Australia, Bri Collins breaks down the significance of the judgement compelling Australia's environmental regulator, the Environmen Protection Authority -- to release a Climate Change Policy & Plan, as a response to the bushfires fuelled by unabated #climatechange: https://blogs.law.columbia.edu/climatechange/2023/02/27/after-judgment-australian-regulator-compelled-to-act-on-climate-following-successful-intervention/

#FridayReads: 📘: Global Climate Change and U.S. Law: Third Edition, by Michael Gerrard, Jody Freeman, and Michael Burger. Read up on recent developments of U.S. #climatelaw: #IRA, #WestVAvEPA decision & SEC's proposed climate disclosure rule: https://buff.ly/3YEAUZq