Sarah J. Dorman

It is a new era in Montana today, rooted in constitutional protection for children instead of protection for an extractive industry whose time must end as we enter a new energy future powered by sun, wind and water. Read our PR with @westernlaw and @welc_org: MTSupremeCourtRuling

BREAKING: The MT Supreme Court has AFFIRMED the trial court's historic ruling in the Held v. State of Montana youth climate case, cementing the youth plaintiffs' landmark victory 🧑‍⚖️ #climatelitigation

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🌎 Major win today for climate action and #HumanRight to a #HealthyEnvironment 👉

⚖️ In landmark youth-led case #HeldVMontana, MT Supreme Court confirmed laws preventing consideration of greenhouse gas emissions violated state constitution

👀 dailymontanan.com/wp-content/u...

@youthvgov.bsky.social

A Florida Commission Keeps Approving Utility Plans With Lots of Fossil Fuels. Now Young Adults Are Suing - Inside Climate News The plaintiffs claim the Public Service Commission’s practice of approving utility plans based on fossil fuels violates their constitutional rights to life and health.

Young Floridians say utilities’ fossil fuel-based energy plans violate their constitutional rights to life and health, in a lawsuit filed against the state commission that approves the plans.

🌍What an epic week at ⚖️International Court of Justice #ClimateJustice hearings!
🧵A thread on this David vs. Goliath struggle & the outrage sparked by the 🇺🇸US ⬇️
We hope that countries that have yet to speak -like the 🇬🇧UK- will stand for #ClimateJusticeAtTheICJ
#AOLetsGo

South African Court Says State Can't Order New Coal Plants South Africa’s High Court upheld a legal challenge to the government’s plan to procure 1,500 megawatts of new coal-fired power, ruling that it was unlawful because …

“Plans for more electricity from the dirtiest fossil fuel in South Africa, which has the most carbon-intensive economy among the Group of 20 nations, violate the constitutional right to health, Judge C.J. van der Westhuizen wrote in a ruling released on Wednesday.”

UN human rights expert raises concerns about US charges against climate protesters Mary Lawlor criticizes US’s failure to respond to concerns after Alex Connon and John Mark Rozendaal charges

🇺🇳UN Experts are questioning the US about retaliation against protestors and other #HumanRightsDefenders for peaceful #ClimateAction.

The climate crisis IS a #HumanRights crisis—and criminalization of peaceful demonstrators is just one of countless reasons why.

👉 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

🧵2/2 Speaking from Vanuatu, Special Rapporteur Morgera also called on ICJ to include all "remedies under international human rights law...including restitution, compensation, rehabilitation [and] guarantees of non-repetition" in its forthcoming climate change Opinion

👀 www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...

Vanuatu: Climate crisis demands urgent mitigation action and finance for community-led action grounded in Indigenous knowledge, says expert Port Vila – Climate change has radically impacted the basic human rights of ni-Vanuatu people, and the international community must urgently implement its mitigation and finance obligations towards Va...

🧵1/2 🇺🇳UN Special Rapporteur on #HumanRights & #ClimateChange, Elisa Morgera, urged ⚖️International Court of Justice to recognize States' international obligations to prevent human rights violations arising from climate change

www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

#ClimateJusticeAtTheICJ #ClimateReparations

What to Know About a Landmark Court Case Judges in The Hague are weighing what, exactly, international law requires countries to do about global warming.

For anyone catching up on the historic #ClimateJustice hearings at the International Court of Justice this week: ICJ's forthcoming Opinion set to clarify States' climate obligations under int'l law, may also address remedies for climate harms
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/05/c...
#ClimateJusticeAtTheICJ 🌍

The first week of hearings on the International Court of Justice's Advisory Opinion on States' obligations regarding #ClimateChange is coming to a close.

As we gear up for week 2⃣, here are four fallacies that major emitting States have put forth: ciel.org/wp-content/u...

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Call for climate reparations at the ICJ even more urgent after COP29 falls short Legal clarity from the International Court of Justice would be a first step towards climate reparations to those who had their rights harmed

An excellent piece by @lienvandamme.bsky.social & @joiec.bsky.social on the urgent need for climate reparations as historic #ClimateJustice hearings unfold at the International Court of Justice this week. ⚖️ 🌍

#ClimateJusticeAtTheICJ @cielorg.bsky.social

👉 www.climatechangenews.com/2024/11/28/c...

Unpacking key arguments and drawing lessons from a human rights perspective, join this event for a debrief on the #ClimateJustice Hearings at the ICJ.

📆 12 December, 18:30 - 20:30 CET
▶️ tiny.cc/GEN12Dec24ICJ

@earthjustice.bsky.social @cielorg.bsky.social

2/ It was such an honor to accompany RISE St. James at the U.N. along with student clinicians in the Georgetown Environmental Law & Justice Clinic!

👀 See RSJ's statement to the U.N., with support from the Clinic: www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...

@georgetownlaw.bsky.social @sara-colangelo.bsky.social

🧵 1/ This week, environmental defenders Sharon Lavigne & Shamyra Lavigne-Davey of RISE St. James advocated for reparatory justice for Cancer Alley before the U.N. Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent.

👉 www.law.georgetown.edu/experiential...

#WGEPAD #ClimateJustice #HumanRights

The United States is now in front of the International Court of Justice, presenting its argument as part of the ongoing #ClimateJusticeAtTheICJ hearings.

🇺🇸 is the world’s richest country and largest historical carbon emitter & is currently among the top expanders of oil and gas production globally.

COP29: Rich Countries Shirk Climate Duties, But They Are Not Above the Law - Center for International Environmental Law COP29 concluded today after wealthy nations refused to pay up in line with their legal obligations to provide sufficient climate finance to the Global South.

The climate talks in Baku 🇦🇿 are officially over!

#COP29 opened with a bulldozing through of dangerous #CarbonMarkets and ended with a bulldozing through of an empty promise of rich countries’ legal obligations to protect #HumanRights & the planet: ciel.org/news/cop29-c...

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No corporate capture of the Loss & Damage Fund! Worrying development during the fourth Loss and Damage Fund Board meeting, currently ongoing in Manila, Philippines: the private sector could be given a seat on the Board of the Fund! This is an absol...

⚠️ Disturbing development in the #LossAndDamage Fund: the private sector could be given an observer seat⚠️

Public participation is a human right. Seats should exclusively go to affected communities, Indigenous Peoples, women, youth & civil society.

More: www.linkedin.com/pulse/corpor...

🚨🔥 #ClimateJustice hearings continue at the International Court of Justice this PM ⚖️🇺🇳 .

We will hear from: 🇦🇪United Arab Emirates, 🇪🇨Ecuador, 🇪🇸Spain, 🇺🇸USA, 🇷🇺Russia, 🇫🇯Fiji.

🧵I will continue to cover legal arguments & context in thread below 👇

#AOLetsGo #ClimateJusticeAtTheICJ