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Introductory Remarks by Judith Levine

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 December 2019

Judith Levine*
Affiliation:
Permanent Court of Arbitration.

Extract

Less than twenty-four hours ago, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) released its “State of the Climate Report,” which the UN secretary-general described as “yet another wake-up call for ambitious and urgent climate action.” The report shows climate change is making extreme weather events more frequent and severe and it sets out record highs in global temperatures, sea levels, and greenhouse gas concentrations. Secretary-General Guterres noted the report proves that climate change is moving faster than our efforts to address it, and called for a Climate Action summit in September, instructing leaders: “Don't come with a speech, come with a plan.”

Type
Litigating Climate Change: New Legal Challenges
Copyright
Copyright © 2019 by The American Society of International Law

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Footnotes

This panel was convened at 9:00 a.m., Friday, March 29, 2019, by its moderator, Judith Levine of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, who introduced the panelists: Michael Gerrard of Columbia Law School; Kristin Casper of Greenpeace International; and Paula Henin of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.

References

1 WMO Statement on the State of the Global Climate in 2018, WMO-No. 1233 (Mar. 28, 2019), at https://library.wmo.int/doc_num.php?explnum_id=5789.

2 Press Conference, Secretary-General António Guterres, WMO Statement on the State of the Global Climate, UN Doc. SG/SM/19519 (Mar. 28, 2019), at https://www.un.org/press/en/2019/sgsm19519.doc.htm.

3 Urgenda Foundation v. The Netherlands [2015] HAZA C/09/00456689 (Dist. Ct. The Hague June 24, 2015, aff'd in The Netherlands v. Urgenda Found., Case No. 200.178.245/01 (The Hague Ct. App. Oct. 9, 2018)).

4 Gloucester Resources Limited v. Minister for Planning [2019] NSWLEC 7.