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What Does the International Court of Justice Advisory Opinion on Climate Change Mean for Environmentally Harmful Subsidies?
This briefing by the International Institute for Sustainable Development explains that the International Court of Justice (ICJ) Advisory Opinion on the Obligations of States in Respect of Climate Change establishes a legal imperative for states to phase out fossil fuel subsidies and other environmentally harmful financial support.
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Document type: Briefing
Chile’s New Governance Structures Are Streamlining Net-zero Implementation
This case study describes how Chile's 2022 Climate Change Framework Law decentralized climate policy implementation, moving responsibility from the Ministry of the Environment to 17 government ministries and subnational authorities to accelerate the country's goal of carbon neutrality by 2050.
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NEUBAUER ET AL. V. GERMANY
A case study on the legal challenge Neubauer et al. v. Germany, in which the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany ruled that parts of the Federal Climate Protection Act were incompatible with fundamental rights because they failed to specify sufficient emission cuts beyond 2030.
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The modernisation of the Energy Charter Treaty - ensuring consistency and mutual supportiveness between climate, energy and investment policies
A joint statement from the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) and ClientEarth addressed to the European Commission, arguing that the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) is an obstacle to the EU's climate goals and requires fundamental redesign rather than cosmetic modernisation.
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Document type: Statement