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19 Nov From Abandoning Fossil Fuel to Sharing our Earth: Professor Joyeeta Gupta on Protecting the Public Interest in Times of Climate Change
...we have no idea what it would all add up to. But already last year, we crossed 1.5℃ of warming for the first time. And normally, you need to cross it for a few years before you have definitely passed 1.5℃. So, the situation is dire, and the Secretary-General is emphasizing the urgency of the issue. Moreover, many countries take ‘overshoot’ (crossing the temperature objective and returning to it later in the century) for granted, and many actors want to increase their emissions while compensating for it (net zero). Both...25 Aug 20 Things About Americans and the World
...patriotism seem to be universal values. I remember trying to cross the street once in Palau, one of the smallest countries in the world, and a high school kid came up to me and said, “This is how we cross the street in PALAU!” Even crossing the street became an act to tell me about his pride in his country. People involved in making foreign policy should be very aware of this. 13) America and Canada share a common culture. This may irk Canadians, but we really do share a...15 Feb Luban on the Ethical Implications of the Torture Memos
...that no one has ever been disciplined for this kind ethical line-crossing when it comes to “candid advice-giving.” And, at least as regards the Geneva Conventions question, the client (President Bush, through his counsel, Alberto Gonzales) had access to the alternative view put forth by State. It nonetheless is an important discussion of slippery slope of ends-based advocacy, one which bears discussion with our students. No doubt, there are strong views on where the ethical line is appropriately drawn. To promote open discussion of this issue, ASIL has placed it...25 May A Breath of Fresh Air as the Supreme Court of Malawi Breaks Rank with Its Own Precedent and Peers in Southern Africa: Part 1
...prescriptions of the law; the focus being on maximizing the numbers by whatever means, without complying with the law.” In my view, the Supreme Court of Malawi’s departure from the quantitative approach is a welcome development because, it places the need to comply with electoral rules at the center of election management and litigation. In 2015, SADC Member States adopted a set of electoral principles and guidelines known as SADC Principles and Guidelines Governing Democratic Elections. These principles enjoin SADC Member states to ensure that they conduct regular, free and...16 Mar Bluefin Tuna, Polar Bears, and Elephants at the Parties Meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species
...scare tactics at world talks on wildlife protection on Monday as it campaigned against a proposal to curb trade in bluefin tuna, the succulent sushi delicacy…. “Japan’s lobbying is formidable. Three or four people from the Japanese delegation are constantly criss-crossing the Convention, arranging meetings,” he told AFP. On Sunday, Japanese delegates met with some African nations, said a negotiator from west Africa. “We are used to it. They do the same thing before each meeting of the International Whaling Commission,” the body that oversees global whale populations, he said....11 Jul A Canal Runs Through It
...feet apart with hazard signs in English and Spanish (apparently not every canal-crossing large mammal is bilingual). But ladders won’t cut it, plaintiffs argue, and many more deer will drown if they are forced to climb canal ladders rather than traverse escape ridges. That argument works, right? No. Why not? Well, the problem is there are no large American mammals trying to cross the All American Canal! The court concluded that following a year of deer tracking and aerial surveillance there was no sign of deer in the area in...
09 Aug Solidarity “A La Carte”: The EU’s Response to Boat Migration
...conclusion, given the above, we argue that informal, partial and ad hoc solidarity seems to have taken asylum policy back to a pre-CEAS intergovernmentalism approach which threatens the EU credibility and legitimacy in this area. It does so by circumventing the solidarity obligations in the EU treaties. The structural flaws of the Common European Asylum System (CEAS) including the failure of the Dublin Regulation is the backdrop against which current trends discussed above must be understood. The situation of the rescued migrants and refugees crossing the Mediterranean should be compared...