Legal Risk Analysis for Sea Level Rise Adaptation Strategies in San Diego: Executive Summary
Author
David Roche, Teresa Chan, Rebecca Kihslinger
Date Released
June 2017
Legal Risk Analysis for Sea Level Rise Adaptation Strategies in San Diego: Execu

Sea level rise raises significant legal questions for local governments, especially in California. On the one hand, taking action could decrease risk to the community, but increase litigation risk from aggrieved property owners or public interest groups, depending on the nature of the action. On the other hand, a local government could decide not to act, exposing people and infrastructure to excess risk, while potentially exposing itself to litigation if the lack of action causes harm to individuals or public trust property. Risk is thus unavoidable.

Legal Risk Analysis for Sea Level Rise Adaptation Strategies in San Diego
Author
David Roche, Teresa Chan, Rebecca Kihslinger
Date Released
June 2017
Legal Risk Analysis for Sea Level Rise Adaptation Strategies in San Diego

Adapting to sea level rise raises significant legal questions for local governments, especially in California. On the one hand, taking action could decrease risk to the community, but increase litigation risk from aggrieved property owners or public interest groups, depending on the nature of the action. On the other hand, a local government could decide not to act, exposing people and infrastructure to excess risk, while potentially exposing itself to litigation if the lack of action causes harm to individuals or public trust property. Risk is thus unavoidable.

ELI Model Law for Implementing the Nationally Determined Contributions Submitted Under the Paris Agreement Through Domestic Legislation

The Paris Climate Agreement contemplates a global climate outcome based on the aggregated contributions of individual countries. As such, the Agreement's success will depend entirely on what happens around the world at the national level. Achieving an important national policy most often begins with lawmaking. This is no less true here. Indeed, without legislation that enshrines a country's Paris contributions as national policy and law and propels those contributions forward through a law-based implementation mechanism, meaningful forward movement will prove elusive.

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