Signature Topics - Climate Change

Expert Legal Group Proposes Crime of ‘Ecocide’ for ICC

Author: 
Olivia Beech

A group of legal experts, in a collaborative effort to confront environmental destruction, have

French Appellate Court Considers Environment in Asylum Claim

Author: 
Justine N. Stefanelli

Toward the end of 2020, the cour administrative d'appel de Bordeaux (administrative court of appeals in Bordeaux) issued a judgment on an asylum claim that substantively took environmental pollutio

U.S. Withdrawal from Paris Climate Agreement Effective Today

Author: 
Joseph McGuire

The U.S. has officially left the Paris Climate Agreement.