This Week on Legal Planet

New climate change policy report from Berkeley Law released in Copenhagen.

Dec 16 CEQA thresholds of significance for greenhouse gas emissions: a strange but good process
Way back in the old days, before 2006 and AB 32 (California’s landmark law limiting greenhouse gas emissions statewide), the California Environmental… [read more]

Dec 15 COP15: Human Rights Inform Climate Change Policy
Attention to human rights can strengthen climate change policies. That’s why we’re in Copenhagen this week: to lobby for the adoption of a human rights… [read more]

Dec 14 Overall impressions of COP/MOP: World Governance for the Climate-as-Artifact

Deep in the bowels of COP15, in a temporary, metal-walled conference room nestled like a shipping container into a vast temporary hangar housing national… [read more]

Dec 12 Addressing Climate Change: Is there a special role for the private sector?
Since the first day of this COP, I have been on a waiting list to attend a tour of an offshore wind power farm, hosted by an initiative promoting wind… [read more]

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