Teaching Climate Change Law & Policy

Earthscan, the UK publisher of so many excellent environmental books that would probably never see the light of day otherwise, has launched a series of webcasts on important environmental issues, with Earthscan authors serving as the presenters. The first of these, Carbon Markets and Climate Change Mitigation, is now available. The webcast includes presentations by [...]

Filed under: Pedagogy | 285No Comments »http://www.teachingclimatelaw.org/2009/09/30/new-webcast-on-state-of-carbon-markets/New+Webcast+on+State+of+Carbon+Markets2009-10-01+04%3A20%3A47Dr.+Wil+Burns

This posting is a book recommendation by Itzhak Kornfeld, Faculty of Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem: Going after the big sources as EPA seeks to do, per its new proposed rule is obsurd.  However more absurd is the fact that senators are parsing out quasi-legal options, most of which are long-term, e.g., Lindsay Graham and [...]

Filed under: Uncategorized | 283No Comments »http://www.teachingclimatelaw.org/2009/09/30/new-book-on-role-of-renewable-energy-in-addressing-cc/New+book+on+role+of+renewable+energy+in+addressing+CC2009-10-01+04%3A06%3A34Dr.+Wil+Burns

If you’re looking for some excellent online lectures on climate change law for your students, check out Law 2723: Climate Change Law & Policy, a course taught by Cymie Payne and Daniel Farber of UC Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law in 2008. The site contains all of the lectures (in audio and video formats) [...]

Filed under: Pedagogy | 281No Comments »http://www.teachingclimatelaw.org/2009/09/30/climate-change-law-course-in-a-box/Climate+Change+Law+Course+in+a+Box%212009-10-01+03%3A41%3A43Dr.+Wil+Burns

Here are links to some pertinent materials for the U.S. EPA’s announcement today of its proposed rule to tailor the major source applicability thresholds for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions under the Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) and title V programs of the Clean Air Act (CAA or Act) and to set a PSD significance level [...]

Filed under: Climate Change Law | 278No Comments »http://www.teachingclimatelaw.org/2009/09/30/documents-for-u-s-epas-proposed-rulemaking-for-ghgs-under-the-clean-air-act/Documents+for+U.S.+EPA%27s+Proposed+Rulemaking+for+GHGs+under+the+Clean+Air+Act2009-09-30+22%3A39%3A48Dr.+Wil+Burns

THE ARKLETON TRUST The Old Golf House, Rectory Road, Streatley, Berks, RG8 9QA England Tel:  +33 450472892   Fax:  + 44 0870 288 4783 Email:  arkleton@arkletontrust.co.uk       Rural Community Adaptation to Climate Change Mapping Project – Asia   The Arkleton Trust in cooperation with the International Climate Change Information Programme (ICCIP) offer one final [...]

Filed under: Uncategorized | 276No Comments »http://www.teachingclimatelaw.org/2009/09/30/arkleton-trust-opportunity/Arkleton+Trust+Opportunity2009-09-30+15%3A25%3A21Dr.+Wil+Burns

UNEP’s newly released Climate Change Science Compendium 2009 is an excellent, if not sobering, potential student reading on current and potential impacts of climate change. The Compendium serves as an update of our current state of climate knowledge from the 4th Assessemnt Report in 2007. It reinforces a theme that I often emphasize to my [...]

Filed under: Climate Change Science | 274No Comments »http://www.teachingclimatelaw.org/2009/09/29/new-unep-science-compendium-study/New+UNEP+Science+Compendium+Study2009-09-29+18%3A49%3A20Dr.+Wil+Burns

When introducing climate change issues and politics in both domestic and international environmental law classes, I have found segments from two PBS Frontline episodes useful to set context.  Both videos are available online in convenient “chapters” to facilitate use of brief (6 to 12 minute) segments that can be worked into a lecture or discussion.  The [...]

Filed under: Pedagogy | 270No Comments »http://www.teachingclimatelaw.org/2009/09/23/pbs-frontline-videos-for-setting-context/PBS+Frontline+Videos+For+Setting+Context+2009-09-24+03%3A58%3A21Andrew+Long

An interesting analysis has been just published by the Atmospheric Pollution and Economic Development Program of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Austria: Wagner & Amann, Analysis of the Proposals for GHG Reductions in 2020 Made by UNFCCC Annex I Countries by Mid-August 2009 (2009). This could be an excellent reading for students [...]

Filed under: Climate Change Law | 253No Comments »http://www.teachingclimatelaw.org/2009/09/23/new-iiasa-analysis-of-adequacy-of-annex-i-party-commitments/New+IIASA+Analysis+of+Adequacy+of+Annex+I+Party+Commitments2009-09-23+17%3A47%3A30Dr.+Wil+Burns

  From Professor Eban Goodstein at Bard College, New York: Dear Colleagues and Friends, Unchecked, global warming will reach a catastrophic 10 degrees F during the lifetime of today’s students. That is the grim conclusion of recent studies by MIT and the UKs Hadley Centre. Is it too late to “save the planet?” This Wednesday [...]

Filed under: Uncategorized | 262No Comments »http://www.teachingclimatelaw.org/2009/09/23/national-teach-in-conference-calls/National+Teach-In+Conference+Calls2009-09-23+16%3A44%3A54Dr.+Wil+Burns

The 2d Circuit’s decision in Connecticut v. American Electrical Power, reversing a district court decision that dismissed an acton by state attorneys general seeking damages associated with climate change under a theory of common law public nuisance, is available here.  There will undoubtedly be a number of good legal analyses of the case in the next few weeks. [...]

Filed under: Climate Change Law | 255No Comments »http://www.teachingclimatelaw.org/2009/09/22/connecticut-v-aep/Connecticut+v.+AEP2009-09-22+21%3A55%3A30Dr.+Wil+Burns