Journal of Environmental Law & Litigation : Vol. 37 (2022)
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Item Open Access Climate Change Litigation: Determinations of the Supreme Court of Ireland on the National Mitigation Plan(University of Oregon School of Law, 2022-05-03) Van Wyk, SanitaThe case of Friends of the Irish Environment CLG v. the Government of Ireland, Ireland and the Attorney General was initially instituted in 2017 in the High Court of Ireland and finally decided by the Supreme Court of Ireland in 2020 as a matter of general public importance. The Applicant in this matter alleged that Ireland’s National Mitigation Plan violated the country’s Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 46 of 2015, the Constitution of Ireland, and the European Convention on Human Rights. The Supreme Court’s decision marks a rare occasion on which the highest court of a country decided that the government has a legal obligation to reform certain environmental policies in order to prevent dangerous climate change. Within the aforementioned framework, this Article explores Ireland’s National Mitigation Plan of 2017, the country’s Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act of 2015, and the related Amendment Bill of 2020. The main objective of this Article is to examine the validity of Ireland’s National Mitigation Plan of 2017, as framed by the Supreme Court.Item Open Access The Paradox of Change in the American West: Global Climate Destruction and the Reallocation of Urban Space and Priorities(University of Oregon School of Law, 2022-05-03) Sullivan, Edward J.; Tarlock, A. DanIn 2019, the authors published an article that surveyed the response of six urban areas in the western United States to global climate destruction (GCD). Our approach was primarily positive. We selected four markers—transportation, land use planning, infrastructure, and water and energy supply—to measure adaptation to the expected adverse impacts of GCD and to suggest best practices in each area. This Article complements the 2019 article by taking a normative approach. It asks the following question: given the magnitude of the expected adverse impacts, what should urban areas (i.e., states, regions, and cities) be doing to mitigate and adapt themselves to GCD? This Article focuses almost exclusively on urban areas in the American West, realizing that GCD will affect that region more severely than many other areas of the country, particularly with respect to the allocation of water resources.