Posted on July 29th, 2011 by Rónán Kennedy
Something that can make for a good class is a debate. Here are two articles with different views on the sentencing of Tim DeChristopher (who bid on oil and gas leases as a form of protest):
Climate protester DeChristopher gets 2-year sentence
DeChristopher’s Sentence Warranted
This case, and the issues it raises, might make for a good starting [...]
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Posted on April 6th, 2011 by Rónán Kennedy
The role of science in the formulation of law and policy is an interesting issue. One might think that it should be a straightforward one, but the reality is made more complex by human irrationality. On the Environmental Law Prof Blog, Lesley McAllister talks about how she gets students to think about these issues.
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Posted on December 8th, 2010 by Rónán Kennedy
Population Action International have put together an interactive mapping application showing the likely impact of climate change globally and regionally, with a number of variables to play with. There is a focus on the need for family planning, but it is a useful tool for getting students to think through what climate change may mean [...]
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Posted on November 12th, 2010 by Rónán Kennedy
For those who are interested in the second-order impacts of the production of bio-fuels, the Institute for European Environmental Policy has produced a report entitled “Anticipated Indirect Land Use Change Associated with Expanded Use of Biofuels and Bioliquids in the EU – An Analysis of the National Renewable Energy Action Plans”, which examines the consequences [...]
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Posted on September 21st, 2010 by Rónán Kennedy
Papers from the 2nd UNITAR-Yale Conference on Environmental Governance and Democracy: Strengthening Institutions to Address Climate Change and Advance a Green Economy are available for download. The conference brought together practitioners, scholars and policy-makers from countries and organizations all over the world and the papers contain many useful insights.
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Posted on July 29th, 2010 by Rónán Kennedy
For those seeking to take a comparative approach to teaching climate law, there are reports from countries around the globe (along with a wealth of similar material) available as part of the Web site for the XVIIIth International Congress of Comparative Law . This could serve as a starting point for a series of presentations, [...]
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Posted on July 6th, 2010 by Rónán Kennedy
In order to properly understand climate change law, it is important to understand the science on which the policy is based. If the science is incomplete, compromised or confused, the resulting policy is also likely to be low quality. In recent times, there have been a number of interesting articles about how interest groups (both [...]
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Posted on June 9th, 2010 by Rónán Kennedy
There’s an interesting story in today’s Irish Times about how figures for forests sinks may be less than accurate
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