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Carbon market players would once again be disappointed that parties seem no closer to agreeing the rules needed to fully operationalise the two market instruments established by the Paris Agreement. Nine years on from adoption of the Paris Agreement, Article 6 is yet to see the light of day, due…
Recent health and safety accidents in the offshore oil and gas industry have raised questions on the role of regulation, safety culture and overall management or risks in both established and emerging offshore energy industries. A second death was reported some weeks ago as a fatal fire broke out on…
The Scottish Climate Emergency Legal Network (SCELN) has succeeded in its campaign to have the UK’s Climate Change Act amended, so that it no longer ignores the potent greenhouse gas nitrogen trifluoride (NF3). This has been achieved by UK Parliament’s recent enactment of the Climate Change (Targeted Greenhouse Gases) Order…
“The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything."
– Albert Einstein
In this article I intend to share my perspective on aspects of UK company law and the climate emergency, with reference to important…
The decommissioning of offshore oil and gas installations has become a key issue for the United Kingdom Continental Shelf (UKCS) and is likely to acquire further prominence in the years ahead, as society transitions away from reliance on fossil fuels. In legal and economic terms, liability for decommissioning is a…
This post is part of the AUCEL COP26 series
Renewable energy targets have been imposed in many forms worldwide, whether its through strict legislation or softer policy mechanisms. Regardless of the form they take in an individual State, the role of targets is to force government action by…
*Risking to state what is already more than obvious* Climate change impacts the human rights of people and communities globally today and significantly threatens our collective ability to enjoy our human rights tomorrow.
Increasingly the connection between climate change and human rights is drawn by stakeholders and several…
This blog post is part of the AUCEL COP26 series
I was honoured to attend COP26 in week 2 as part of the University of Aberdeen delegation.
On the final day, I shared my thoughts “live” at 4pm while protestors walked by, as part of the Aberdeen…
On 29 January 2021, thirteen years after four Nigerian farmers and fisherfolks, Chief Fidelis Oguru, Mr Alali Efanga, Chief Barizaa Dooh and Elder Friday Alfred Akpan, instituted lawsuits in the Netherlands with the support of Milleudefensie, the Hague Court of Appeal found Royal Dutch Shell’s (Shell) subsidiary, Shell Petroleum Development…
There are only two tragedies in life…
Oscar Wilde
I have talked multiple times in print[1] and in lectures of Ireland’s need to live up to the distinguished legacy of John Tyndall (1820–1893), the Irish scientist who made vital contributions to our understanding of the science behind climate change.
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