Pace Environmental Law Review

Professor Robinson is currently involved in the UNEP World Congress on Justice, Governance and Law for Environmental Sustaiability. The meeting schedule and photos of the event by IISD are available at www.iisd.ca/uncsd/rio20/unepwc/  His report on yesterday's...

Achim Steiner, UNEP Executive Director, opened the World Congress on Justice, Governance and Law for Sustainable Development, at the Tribunal de Justica (the Supreme Court) of the State of Rio de Janeiro. He noted that the 5th Global Environment Report of UNEP showed...

The negotiating text released June 16th by the Brazilian chair of the CSD has 287 paragraphs. It consists of agreements in the prior negotiations (agreed ad ref) and many efforts to restate acceptable past agreements. This text goes beyond agreeing to reaffirm the...

It’s hard to know what to say about the first week of Rio+20.  The PrepCom ended as it had begun, with a bloated document running over two-hundred pages, and hundreds of  brackets reflecting areas of disagreement. This came after weeks of “informal-informal”...

Professor Nicholas Robinson reports that his lectures Thursday at the Jurists conference (at the Botanical Garden) and Friday at the Planeta Verde/Judicial conference (at the Rio Supreme Court) went well. He acknowledged Pace alum Prof. Romulo Sampaio  and 4 of our...

Two days into the initial week of work it’s hard to encapsulate any commentary. On the logistical end, the Brazilians are making strenuous efforts to see that things go smoothly. At the moment there seem to be more helpers and guides than conference participants,...

GreenLaw will be posting reports, observations and reflections from our Pace Law contingent in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for the Rio+20 conference - the 20th anniversary meeting of the 1992 Earth Summit, now called the Conference on Sustainable Development. In addition...

Today's New York Times piece on the slow death of coal in the Southeast United States generally reports good news for the environment.  The fact is, coal is not only dirty, it's uneconomical as well, and with the implementation of existing environmental controls it's...

Two years ago the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded creating an environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico resulting in hundreds of lawsuits.  Many of the suits were consolidated in multi-district litigation in the Eastern District of Louisiana.  Among the  plaintiffs...