In February 2025, the South Korean government promised a long-term plan to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050, whereas previous plans were limited to 2030. In this post, I examine how a court case considering the United Nations (UN) Framework Convention on Climate Change influenced this shift. The Constitutional Court’s ruling in D.H. Kim et al … Read more
Ana Carcau (master’s student in European Union Law at the School of Law of University of Minho) In early 2025, Greenpeace International initiated legal proceedings before Dutch courts seeking compensation for all the damages and costs suffered from a series of abusive lawsuits filed against it by the US-based fossil fuel pipeline company, Energy Transfer.[1] … Read more
In July 2024, I wrote, together with Chhaya Bharwaj, that the execution of the first climate mitigation judgment of the European Court of Human Rights, Verein KlimaSeniorinnen v. Switzerland, was a space to watch. This was because the Court found, for the first time, that the lack of an adequate legislative framework to mitigate the … Read more
Montana’s Supreme Court upheld a landmark climate ruling that said the state was violating residents’ constitutional right to a clean environment by permitting oil, gas and coal projects without regard for global warming. The justices, in a 6-1 ruling, rejected the state’s argument that greenhouse gases released from Montana fossil fuel projects are minuscule on … Read more
Image by M. H. from Pixabay In the first part of this post on the Kneschke vs. LAION decision by the German Hamburg Regional Court (“Court”), we explored the Court’s key findings regarding the operational step in a generative AI model, and the decision on the exceptions for scientific research text and data mining (“TDM”) … Read more