Teaching Climate & Energy Law & PolicyThe international peer-reviewed journal Global Health Action, publishes today a series of papers on “Climate change impacts on working people”. The series primarily looks at the effects of heat exposures, but also non-heat related consequences. The full text of all articles is free to access: www.globalhealthaction.net
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The Earth Negotiations Bulletin notes that for some, the CBD COP-10 in Nagoya “marked the re-birth of environmental multilateralism” and suggests it “exorcise the ghost of Copenhagen.” Unfortunately, Nagoya’s successes, while significant, do not resonate that profoundly.
The 10th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity in Nagoya produced a “package” of results, [...]
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For the final installment of this series of posts on the 12th Annual Northeast Florida Environmental Summit, I’d like to highlight the presentation by Dr. Stephen Leatherman (see also here), titled “Oil Spills & Hurricanes.” While not strictly a legal presentation, Dr. Leatherman’s talk provides an engaging expert’s perspective on the potential for a combination of [...]
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Applications are invited for two fellowships in climate change law at Columbia Law School’s Center for Climate Change Law. For both, the salary will be $60,000/year plus benefits. Applicants must have received a J.D. degree within three years prior to the beginning of the Fellowship. Strong academic qualifications and background in environmental law and policy [...]
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Instructors who use climate change negotiation simulations in class should take a look at the Ad hoc group for the modelling and assessment of contributions of climate change (MATCH) site. The site was constructed by a group of researchers to assess assumptions underlying Brazilian proposals for emissions reductions during the negotiations for the Kyoto Protocol. [...]
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FYI. I have always found this to be a valuable resource for lecture materials.
Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) is pleased to announce that a series of IGES publications for the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and
Joint Implementation (JI) under the United Nations Framework Convention on
Climate Change (UNFCCC) has been updated.
New Updates (Updated to November 2010):
IGES [...]
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The UNEP Risø Centre is pleased to announce the 2010 issue of its Carbon Market Perspectives: Pathways for Implementing REDD+: Experiences from Carbon Markets and Communities.
This year, the publication reflects the current experiences about implementing REDD+ activities at project and community levels and goes beyond opportunities afforded by the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) by including [...]
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The U.S. EPA released a memo yesterday stating that insufficient monitoring methods and nascent environmental data exists – therefore will not regulate OA under CWA 303(d) and will not be establishing TMDL’s at this time. Due to
seasonal and regional fluctuations in pH, the EPA has determined that most states have insufficient data to find that [...]
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Dear Colleagues,
I am writing to let you know about two opportunities with application deadlines of November 22:
- Teaching about Complex Systems Using STELLA- a one day workshop in association with the AGU meeting
- Visiting Workshops offered by the Building Strong Geoscience Departments project.
Details and links are below. I hope that these are of interest.
Cathy
1. The Cutting [...]
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One very important aspect of climate change law and policy that receives too little attention is the role of insurance as a driver of behavior, including solutions to climate change risks and impacts. Professor Sean Hecht provided a very cogent analysis of the topic at the 2010 Northeast Florida Environmental Summit in a presentation titled The Role of Insurance [...]
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