Given all the garbage that we have to deal with nowadays, you might have missed the prospect of actual, non-metaphorical garbage this week: to virtually no one’s surprise, UN negotiations over an international plastics treaty collapsed this week. It’s easy to make jokes referencing The Graduate – and in fact I will – but this … Continue reading "Garbage In, Garbage Out, Garbage Everywhere"| Legal Planet
My UCLA colleagues Ted Parson, JP Escudero and I just returned from Baku. Most of our work there related to side talks on advancing methane regulation (and our UCLA project on that topic), but we also got a sense of how the central negotiations were unfolding. As the New York Times and others are reporting, … Continue reading "What’s Making this COP Especially Difficult?"| Legal Planet
Carbon border adjustment mechanisms are increasingly the talk of Washington. UCLA Law’s Kimberly Clausing explains the options.| Legal Planet
Trump not only wants to roll back all federal climate policies; he also wants to ramp up fossil fuel production through the roof. A true climate arsonist.| Legal Planet
