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Climate Change Conference Concluded (Dec. 24, 2008) by Wendy Zeldin
The 14th session of the Conference of the Parties to the Climate Change Convention (COP 14) – the highest decision-making body of this U.N. Convention – ...
Topic: Environment
Jurisdiction: United Nations
Supreme Court Overturns Order Limiting Navy Sonar Training Exercises (Nov. 21, 2008) by Luis Acosta
On November 12, 2008, the United States Supreme Court reversed a lower court's order placing conditions on the U.S. Navy's training exercises using sonar, finding that ...
Topic: Environment
Jurisdiction: United States
Agreement on Migratory Birds of Prey (Oct. 29, 2008) by Constance Johnson
Twenty-eight nations have signed a United Nations-backed memorandum of understanding to protect migratory birds of prey in Africa, Europe, and Asia. The agreement, signed in Abu ...
Topic: Environment
Jurisdiction: United Nations
Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Oct. 27, 2008) by Lisa White
The Climate Change (Emissions Trading) Amendment Act 2008 recently received royal assent. This legislation introduces a greenhouse gas emissions trading scheme under which participants (large emitters ...
Topic: Environment
Jurisdiction: New Zealand
Bills Prohibiting Gas Flaring and Establishing Desertification Control Commission (Oct. 14, 2008) by Hanibal Goitom
On October 7, 2008, the Nigerian Senate debated a bill that if passed would outlaw the flaring of natural gas. The bill requires the Minister of ...
Topic: Environment
Jurisdiction: Nigeria
Law on Environmental Liability (Oct. 07, 2008) by Nicole Atwill
Law 2008-757 of August 1, 2008, on environmental liability, transposes Directive 2004/35/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of April 21, 2004, on the ...
Topic: Environment
Jurisdiction: France
Detention to Be Applied for Discharging Pollutants (Sep. 25, 2008) by Laney Zhang
On August 6, 2008, China's Ministry of Environmental Protection posted on its official website a notice to circulate the Opinion on Application of Administrative Detention for ...
Topic: Environment
Jurisdiction: China
Regulations on Recycling Electronic Waste (Sep. 05, 2008) by Wendy Zeldin
On August 20, 2008, after years of debate on the issue, China's State Council (Cabinet) Standing Committee approved in principle the draft Regulations on the Administration ...
Topic: Environment
Jurisdiction: China
EU Emissions Trading System to Join U.N. Carbon Credit Registry by End of 2008 (Sep. 04, 2008) by Theresa Papademetriou
The European Union's Emissions Trading Scheme, which was established in 2005 to meet the EU's Kyoto Protocol commitments to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, enables companies to ...
Topic: Environment
Jurisdiction: European Union
Proposal to Amend Regulation on Ozone-Depleting Substances (Sep. 04, 2008) by Theresa Papademetriou
The 1985 Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer and the ensuing Montreal Protocol of 1987 on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer require ...
Topic: Environment
Jurisdiction: European Union
Bill Amending the Organic Law of the Environment (Jul. 02, 2008) by Dante Figueroa
On June 5, 2008, Chile's President Michelle Bachelet sent Congress a bill amending the Organic Law of the Environment (Law 19,300 of 1994). The bill creates ...
Topic: Environment
Jurisdiction: Chile
Carbon Trading Agreement (Jul. 02, 2008) by Lisa White
On June 13, 2008, Australia and Indonesia signed a new Indonesia - Australia Forest Carbon Partnership to support emerging ...
Topic: Environment
Jurisdiction: Australia / Indonesia
Emissions Trading Scheme and Airlines (Jul. 02, 2008) by Theresa Papademetriou
A plan on emissions trading, known as the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), has been in force in the European Union since 1995. Based on Directive 2003/87/EC, ...
Topic: Environment
Jurisdiction: European Union
New Hazardous Waste Strategy (Jun. 02, 2008) by Wendy Zeldin
On April 21, 2008, Norway's Pollution Control Authority (Statens forurensningstilsyn, or SFT) announced that it is considering amending chapter 11 of the Waste Regulations (930/2004) “to ...
Topic: Environment
Jurisdiction: Norway
Carbon Sequestration Project Announced (May. 02, 2008) by Stephen Clarke
Canada's western province of Saskatchewan is already the site of the world's largest demonstration or experimental project for injecting and storing carbon dioxide in underground oil ...
Topic: Environment
Jurisdiction: Canada
Environmental Automobile Tax (Apr. 02, 2008) by Edith Palmer
On February 29, 2008, Austria promulgated a law entitled Environmental Act 2007 (BUNDESGESETZBLATT (BGBl) I No. 46/2008). This law makes the tax burden on passenger cars ...
Topic: Environment
Jurisdiction: Austria
Carbon Credit Plan for Rainforest (Mar. 02, 2008) by Wendy Zeldin
On February 7, 2008, a project to save Indonesia's Ulu Masen rainforest in Aceh Province, by using carbon trading markets to help villages preserve trees, was ...
Topic: Environment
Jurisdiction: Indonesia
Water Pollution Prevention Law Amended (Mar. 02, 2008) by Wendy Zeldin
On February 28, 2008, the Standing Committee of China's National People's Congress approved amendments to the Law on Prevention of Water Pollution. Under the revised Law, ...
Topic: Environment
Jurisdiction: China
Plan to Reduce Ocean Dumping (Mar. 02, 2008) by Sayuri Umeda
South Korea dumped 2.02 million cubic meters of sewage from livestock farms, 1.71 million cubic meters of leftover food, and 1.61 million cubic meters of urban ...
Topic: Environment
Jurisdiction: South Korea
EPA Regulations on Power Plant Mercury Emissions Stuck Down (Feb. 02, 2008) by Gary Robinson
On February 8, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit invalidated two rules promulgated by the Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") concerning electric ...
Topic: Environment
Jurisdiction: United States
Last updated: 12/24/2008