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Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Cadwalader Climate - July 2024 #3

This week, we discuss the first settlement between a state and a group of young plaintiffs who claimed that their government’s inadequate climate policies violated their constitutional right to a healthy environment. We...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

IOSCO Launches a Consultation on Compliance and Voluntary Carbon Markets Design

In November 2022, the International Organization of Securities Commissions (“IOSCO”) published two reports − one on Compliance Carbon Markets (“CCMs”) and one on Voluntary Carbon Markets (“VCMs”). IOSCO continues to seek...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Legislature v. Inslee… Again: New Washington Climate Laws Unsettled by Separation of Powers Disputes

On Monday, December 20, 2021, for the second time in three years, the Washington State Legislature sued Governor Inslee over his line-item vetoes related to climate change policy. ...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Golden State Forges Ahead With Sweeping Climate Change Regulatory Regime

With federal climate change regulations facing an uncertain future, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) recently released a far-reaching new plan to reduce the state’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions 40 percent below...more

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

B.C.’s Updated Climate Action Plan: What You Need to Know, What’s in, and What’s Been Left Out

The B.C. government recently released the much anticipated Climate Leadership Plan (Plan), which updates the 2008 Climate Action Plan (2008 Plan) and responds to the government-appointed Climate Leadership Team’s (Panel) 32...more

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Ontario Announces Five-Year Climate Change Action Plan

On June 8, 2016, the Ontario government (Government) released a five-year Climate Change Action Plan (Action Plan), which builds on the Government’s Climate Change Strategy released in November 2015, that set the long-term...more

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Ontario Announces Climate Change Mitigation and Low Carbon Economy Act and the Cap-and-Trade Program Regulations

The Ontario government (Government) has taken significant steps in its fight against climate change by introducing two significant pieces of climate change legislation: - The Climate Change Mitigation and Low Carbon...more

K&L Gates LLP

EU votes in favour of temporarily withholding the sale of 900 million EU allowances from the EU carbon scheme

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On July 3, 2013 the members of the European Parliament voted 344-311 in favour of a one-off intervention in the market to withhold the sale of 900 million EU allowances over the next few years (with the intent to return them...more

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