The country will likely have to pay over $30 million to an American litigation firm because it wanted to protect its environment from harmful seabed mining. Published October 21, 2024 By Jen Moore, Associate Fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies, Ellen Moore, Making Clean Energy Clean campaign manager at Earthworks, and Carla García Zendejas, … Read More.
Published August 5, 2024 By Patrick Boyle, Corporate Accountability Attorney at the Center for International Environmental Law, and Charles Slidders, Senior Attorney, Financial Strategies at the Center for International Environmental Law. The US Supreme Court recently issued decisions in four cases that could profoundly weaken the administrative state, foreshadowing widespread dysfunction for federal agencies and the … Read More.
Published June 27, 2024 By Upasana Khatri, Senior Attorney at the Center for International Environmental Law, and Joie Chowdhury, Senior Attorney, Climate Litigation and Accountability at the Center for International Environmental Law. On May 21, 2024, the court for the world’s oceans became the first international court to declare that States have a legal duty to … Read More.
Today, there are three climate advisory proceedings underway before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (Inter-American Court), the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS), and the International Court of Justice (ICJ), each of which has been asked to clarify States’ climate obligations.