Staying on top of the legal and policy developments in the climate change arena is no small task. As a special service to our members, the Environmental Law Institute provides a series of monthly conference calls with national experts on climate law and policy to keep you up to date and to answer your questions.
Topics addressed in this month's call:
- Discussion of the new Executive Branch report on climate impacts
- Status of Juliana case
- Decision halting Keystone XL Pipeline
- Pacific Coast Federal of Fishermen's Associations suit against oil companies
- Decision allowing litigation to proceed concerning motor vehicle standards
- Roundup of state and city announcements on carbon mitigation, including DC's new policy
- What's happening at the COP
- Adaptation updates, including some positive steps and some rollbacks of climate leadership in Alaska
- Corporate response to Poland meeting (open letter from 50 multinationals)
- IPCC, Lancet and US Report
- ELI's new environmental paradigm
Speakers:
Vicki Arroyo, Executive Director, Climate Center, Georgetown University
Sally Fisk, Assistant General Counsel, Pfizer
Michael B. Gerrard, Professor, Columbia Law School; Director, Sabin Center for Climate Change Law
Robert Sussman, Principal, Sussman & Associates
Materials:
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