Climate Law & Liability Archives - Inside Climate News https://insideclimatenews.org/topic/climate-law-liability/ Pulitzer Prize-winning, nonpartisan reporting on the biggest crisis facing our planet. Wed, 29 Nov 2023 22:37:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.1 https://insideclimatenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-favicon-32x32.png Climate Law & Liability Archives - Inside Climate News https://insideclimatenews.org/topic/climate-law-liability/ 32 32 At COP28, the United States Will Stress an End to Fossil Emissions, Not Fuels https://insideclimatenews.org/news/29112023/at-cop28-the-united-states-will-stress-an-end-to-fossil-emissions-not-fuels/ Wed, 29 Nov 2023 22:37:37 +0000 https://insideclimatenews.org/?p=75478 The Biden administration faces increasing international and domestic political pressure to endorse near-term cuts in coal, oil and natural gas.

President Joe Biden will not attend the climate talks that commence this week in Dubai, but the conflict that has come to define his policy on the planetary crisis will be front and center.

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A New Law Regulating the Cosmetics Industry Expands the FDA’s Power But Fails to Ban Toxic Chemicals in Beauty Products https://insideclimatenews.org/news/27112023/dereliction-of-beauty-part-two/ Mon, 27 Nov 2023 10:00:00 +0000 https://insideclimatenews.org/?p=75398 The Modernization of Cosmetics Regulation Act empowers the FDA to recall harmful cosmetics. Advocates want to know why manufacturers still don’t have to prove their products are safe before they’re sold to millions of consumers.

Dereliction of Beauty: Second in a series on how lax regulation of beauty care products victimizes women of color.

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The EU Overhauls Its Law Covering Environmental Crimes, Banning Specific Acts and Increasing Penalties https://insideclimatenews.org/news/23112023/eu-sets-new-environmental-crimes-ecocide/ Thu, 23 Nov 2023 10:00:00 +0000 https://insideclimatenews.org/?p=75383 The European Parliament is expected to approve the new directive early next year. It’s not clear whether the emission of greenhouse gasses at certain levels could constitute crimes.

The European Union will ban environmental destruction tantamount to “ecocide,” outlawing acts that destroy or cause substantial damage to ecosystems. 

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Environmental Justice a Key Theme Throughout Biden’s National Climate Assessment https://insideclimatenews.org/news/14112023/biden-national-climate-asssessment-environmental-justiice/ Tue, 14 Nov 2023 10:00:00 +0000 https://insideclimatenews.org/?p=75071 The report finds that societal factors, including historic racism, have shaped the climate reality for many communities of color. It also details the impacts of climate change on Indigenous people, public health and agriculture.

WASHINGTON—Whether it’s the likelihood of living in a flood zone, lacking access to parks or having fewer resources to recover from a destructive storm, the consequences of climate change are not experienced equally in the United States. That’s a key message from some of the nation’s leading climate scientists, public health experts and economists in a landmark federal report released Tuesday.

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This Week in Nairobi, Nations Gather for a Third Round of Talks on an International Plastics Treaty, Focusing on Its Scope and Ambition https://insideclimatenews.org/news/13112023/talks-plastic-treaty-advanced-recycling/ Mon, 13 Nov 2023 10:00:00 +0000 https://insideclimatenews.org/?p=75050 Led by the EU, some nations are pushing for binding provisions to restrain and reduce the consumption and production of plastics. The U.S. has staked out a middle ground, calling for provisions to reduce plastic pollution while embracing industry’s call for advanced plastics recycling.

Delegates from more than 175 countries are gathered in Nairobi to advance a potential diplomatic solution to a global plastic pollution crisis amid a growing awareness of the effect of plastic on the environment and human health.

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After a Last-Minute Challenge to New Loss and Damage Deal, U.S. Joins Global Consensus Ahead of COP28 https://insideclimatenews.org/news/10112023/us-loss-and-damage-cop-28/ Fri, 10 Nov 2023 19:43:53 +0000 https://insideclimatenews.org/?p=75039 Latest U.S. actions fit a long pattern of ambivalence, and even disruption, at key moments during 30 years of climate talks.

Despite some last-minute wavering over specific words and the placement of commas in a key document, a State Department official said on Wednesday that the U.S. now welcomes new United Nations guidelines to set up a loss and damage fund, a key issue going into the global COP28 climate talks in Dubai.

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Deep Rifts at UN Loss and Damage Talks Cast a Shadow on Upcoming Climate Conference https://insideclimatenews.org/news/03112023/loss-and-damage-talks-cast-shadow-on-climate-conference/ Fri, 03 Nov 2023 11:00:00 +0000 https://insideclimatenews.org/?p=74926 Developing countries oppose the U.S.-led plan for the World Bank to host the new climate fund, and question the credibility of developed countries that have failed to deliver on other climate promises.

Climate negotiators from rich, industrialized nations and poor countries devastated by global warming are starting one last make-or-break meeting Friday to finalize plans for a new fund to help developing countries pay for climate-related losses and damages that they have done very little to cause. The stalemate thus far in the negotiations shows there is still a wide gap between the climate aid developed countries have long promised and what they are ready to deliver. 

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Q&A: Rich and Poor Nations Have One More Chance to Come to Terms Over a Climate Change ‘Loss and Damage’ Fund https://insideclimatenews.org/news/28102023/cop27-cop28-loss-damage-fund-disagreement/ Sat, 28 Oct 2023 09:00:00 +0000 https://insideclimatenews.org/?p=74766 Heading into COP28 in Dubai, the U.S. and other developed countries want the fund run by the World Bank. Developing nations see the bank as an exploiting force and want the fund to have greater independence.

From our collaborating partner “Living on Earth,” public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by Managing Producer Jenni Doering with Bob Berwyn Reid of The Allegheny Front.

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How Climate Change Drives Conflict and War Crimes Around the Globe https://insideclimatenews.org/news/26102023/how-climate-change-drives-conflict-and-war-crimes-around-the-globe/ Thu, 26 Oct 2023 09:00:00 +0000 https://insideclimatenews.org/?p=74741 Human rights advocates want the International Criminal Court to begin gathering evidence on the way climate-amplified extreme weather, heat, drought and flooding are driving armed conflict, crimes against humanity and war crimes.

This story has been updated.

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Most Countries are Falling Short of Their Promises to Stop Cutting Down the World’s Trees https://insideclimatenews.org/news/23102023/world-losing-millions-acres-forest-annually/ Tue, 24 Oct 2023 01:04:05 +0000 https://insideclimatenews.org/?p=74692 An annual report evaluating pledges to stop deforestation takes clear aim at financial institutions for supporting agricultural companies with ties to forest loss.

Despite the urgency behind global pledges to stop cutting down trees and damaging forests, the world lost tens of millions of acres of woodlands in 2022, veering well off track from meeting targets to halt deforestation and reversing modest progress from the previous year.

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