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  • Sustainable Forest Landscapes

    Launch of Initiative for Sustainable Forest Landscapes in 2013 United States views on international law [1] in relation to Launch of Initiative for Sustainable Forest Landscapes: On November 20, 2013, in Warsaw, Poland, the United States joined in the launch of a new partnership, the […]

  • Sustainable Forest Landscapes

    Launch of Initiative for Sustainable Forest Landscapes in 2013 United States views on international law [1] in relation to Launch of Initiative for Sustainable Forest Landscapes: On November 20, 2013, in Warsaw, Poland, the United States joined in the launch of a new partnership, the […]

  • Environmental justice

    Environmental justice Environmental Justice By Bunyan Bryant The Meaning and Significance of Environmental Justice The concept of environmental justice has surfaced and taken shape over the last thirty years. The first time environmental justice hit the radar screen was in 1976 at a conference entitled: “Working for Environmental and Economic Justice and Jobs” sponsored by…

  • Environmental justice

    Environmental justice Environmental Justice By Bunyan Bryant The Meaning and Significance of Environmental Justice The concept of environmental justice has surfaced and taken shape over the last thirty years. The first time environmental justice hit the radar screen was in 1976 at a conference entitled: “Working for Environmental and Economic Justice and Jobs” sponsored by…

  • Kiruna Declaration

    Kiruna Declaration and “vision for the Arctic” Statement in 2013 United States views on international law [1] in relation to Kiruna Declaration and “vision for the Arctic” Statement: Also on May 15, 2013 at the Arctic Council ministerial, representatives of the Arctic […]

  • Kiruna Declaration

    Kiruna Declaration and “vision for the Arctic” Statement in 2013 United States views on international law [1] in relation to Kiruna Declaration and “vision for the Arctic” Statement: Also on May 15, 2013 at the Arctic Council ministerial, representatives of the Arctic […]

  • Tradable Permits

    Tradable Permits one alternative to a pollution tax is a system of tradable pollution permits. In the international negotiations over greenhouse gas reduction, the United States has advocated the implementation of a tradable permit system for carbon emissions. Such a system would work as follows: Each nation would be allocated a certain permissible level of…

  • Tradable Permits

    Tradable Permits one alternative to a pollution tax is a system of tradable pollution permits. In the international negotiations over greenhouse gas reduction, the United States has advocated the implementation of a tradable permit system for carbon emissions. Such a system would work as follows: Each nation would be allocated a certain permissible level of…

  • Actions on Climate Change

    U.S. Action on Climate Change in 2013 United States views on international law [1] in relation to U.S. Action on Climate Change: (1) U.S. Climate Action Plan On June 25, 2013, President Obama announced the U.S. Climate Action Plan. See White House Fact Sheet, available at (President's […]

  • Government Subsidies

    Development Subsidies and International Trade Resources See Also Green Box

  • International Law Development

    Functions of the UN: Development of International LawIntroduction to International Law DevelopmentThe UN plays an important role in the development of international law. Formally, the UN can produce international law in two ways. Security Council resolutions are binding on all UN m…

  • Litigation towards Regulating Climate Change

    Civil Litigation for Regulating Climate Change There are interlinked policy, science, legal and political questions of utilizing the American litigation system, and particularly its tort theories of liability, to regulate climate change. Attempts to employ the courts as a tool for regulation are exemplified by cases such as Comer v. Murphy Oil, Connecticut v. American…

  • International trade law Part 6

    International Trade law Part 6   71 Reciprocity Clause and International trade law Caroline Van den Bergh Journal of Energy & Natural Resources Law Volume 27, Number 2, May 2009 p.228 LAW JOURNAL / LAW REVIEW 72 International trade law – Role of Dispute Settlement Decisions in WTO Law – WTO Appellate Body Reaffirms WTO-Inconsistency…

  • International human rights law Part 11

    International human rights law Part 11   132 International Law Limits on Investor Liability in Human Rights Litigation Michael D. Ramsey Harvard International Law Journal Volume 50, Number 2, Summer 2009 p.271 LAW JOURNAL / LAW REVIEW 133 LABOR OF LOVE: USING INTERNATIONAL Labor law TO ACHIEVE HUMAN RIGHTS FOR WOMEN SEX WORKERS IN THE…

  • International human rights law Part 11

    International human rights law Part 11   132 International Law Limits on Investor Liability in Human Rights Litigation Michael D. Ramsey Harvard International Law Journal Volume 50, Number 2, Summer 2009 p.271 LAW JOURNAL / LAW REVIEW 133 LABOR OF LOVE: USING INTERNATIONAL Labor law TO ACHIEVE HUMAN RIGHTS FOR WOMEN SEX WORKERS IN THE…