Sentences with phrase «international environmental law»

The link between the environment and human rights has been the subject of many «soft law» instruments of international environmental law.

While his approach is centered within international environmental law, he draws from diverse disciplines, including international relations and economics.

An easier case to make, notes Donald Goldberg of the Center for International Environmental Law in Washington, D.C., will simply be warming.

International law is clear about responsibility for preventing future hazardous waste, but ambiguous about who is liable for waste already discarded, said Jessica Green, a political scientist specializing in international environmental law at New York University who was not connected to the study.

(or LUST Canadian Style) American Bar Association International Environmental Law Committee Newsletter Vol.

Chairman, Committee on International Environmental Law of The Association of the Bar of the City of New York (1997 — 2000)

It will also promote international environmental law, «including something like a Geneva Convention for the environment».

A proposal for bringing international environmental law under one legally binding treaty at the United Nations will be up for a preliminary vote later this week at the U.N. General Assembly.

To prepare for the negotiations two classes «The Road to Copenhagen» and «Advanced International Environmental Law Seminar» were offered for the first time.

Many also took an advanced tutorial in international environmental law with Ken Cline.

Over the years, the International Program has set many important precedents that have strengthened international environmental law and made it a tool for citizen action.

As a law student at the University of Kansas (KU), my studies have focused on international law, and my passion for international environmental law led me to OCT..

Common but differentiated responsibilities (CBDR), principle of international environmental law establishing that all states are responsible for addressing global environmental destruction yet not equally responsible.

«International environmental law largely lacks efficient tools in matters of sustainable development and mitigation of global warming; there are simply very limited enforcement mechanisms available to put force behind the words of its international conventions», Ms. Magnusson said in her statement during the session Reforming the International Investment Agreements Regime

There are print publications such as European Commercial Cases, International Environmental Law Reports, International Labour Law Reports (also in the Foreign & International Law Resources Database in HeinOnline).

Professor Alan Boyle is a specialist in public international law, especially international environmental law, law of the sea, international law - making and international litigation.

Represented the Republic of Nicaragua before the International Court of Justice in the Case Concerning Certain Activities Carried Out by Nicaragua in the Border Area (Costa Rica v. Nicaragua) in a dispute with Costa Rica over territorial sovereignty and allegations regarding breach of international environmental law in relation to dredging of the San Juan River.

«It all goes to the matter of credibility,» said Colares, who teaches courses on international environmental law.

He holds a PhD in International Environmental Law from the University of Wales - Cardiff School of Law.

Carroll Muffett, president of the center for International Environmental Law, said the combined interest in pressuring Exxon highlights the gravity of the situation.

Documents housed at the University of California, San Francisco, and analyzed in recent months by the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), a Washington, D.C. - based advocacy group, show that the oil and tobacco industries have been linked for decades.

And that's the answer: By and large, no one's on the job,» says Daryl Ditz, a senior policy adviser at the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) in Washington, D.C.

But David Azoulay, managing attorney for the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) in Geneva, Switzerland, says that the global ban is a good step.

Leaked TTIP Documents Expose Chemical Industry's Toxic Agenda A report published Monday by the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) and ClientEarth shows how a leaked proposal from chemical lobbying groups could damage future protective legislation on toxic chemicals.

A report published Monday by the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) and ClientEarth shows how a leaked proposal from chemical lobbying groups could damage future protective legislation on toxic chemicals.

«This proposal illustrates two huge and interrelated problems with TTIP,» said Baskut Tuncak, staff attorney for the Center for International Environmental Law.

The dumpsite has been in existence for over thirty years in contrary to the international environmental laws, which requires closure of the dumpsites that have been in usage after ten to fifteen years.The City Council of Nairobi established the dumpsite in the mid 1970s over a disused quarry in the then sparsely populated outskirts of Nairobi.

«We could be locking in decades of expanded plastics production at precisely the time the world is realizing we should use far less of it,» said Carroll Muffett, president of the US Center for International Environmental Law, which has analyzed the plastic industry.

He previously served as the Director of the Energy Policy & Climate program at Johns Hopkins University in Washington, DC He is also the former President of the Association for Environmental Studies & Sciences, and former Co-Chair of the International Environmental Law interest group of the American Society of International Law, and Chair of the International Wildlife Law Interest group of the Society.

This is all in international environmental law.

Prior to joining WRI, Niranjali directed the Climate & Energy Program at the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL).

in International Environmental Law and International Organizations from American University's Washington College of Law.

He is Editor of the journal Review of European, Comparative and International Environmental Law (RECIEL), Associate Editor of the Carbon & Climate Law Review (CCLR), and sits on the Editorial Board of International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics.

Exxon and other fossil fuel companies could face «a huge universe of potential plaintiffs» in civil liability suits in coming years, said Carroll Muffett, a lawyer who is president and CEO of the Center for International Environmental Law, with offices in Washington and Geneva.

Pawa is also on the board of the Center for International Environmental Law, the group responsible for the Smoke & Fumes website, which alleges the fossil fuel industry used the «tobacco playbook» to sow doubt about climate change.

ERI is also representing Carroll Muffett, President and CEO of the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) and a leading actor in the campaign against oil and gas companies, as he fights to avoid turning over documents detailing his collusion with government officials and other activists.