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Singapore environmental lawyer
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Law beyond Modernity #4: Future Fit Legal Learning? That would be a good idea
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Law beyond Modernity #4: Future Fit Legal Learning? That would be a good idea
The urgent need to train lawyers to offer valuable advice in VUCA times.
https://theuncertainsolicitor.substack.com/p/law-beyond-modernity-4-future-fit?r=mrg6c
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French court convicts TotalEnergies over misleading climate claims
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https://today.rtl.lu/news/science-and-environment/a/2348604.html
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The Hyper Political Nature of International Environmental Law
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The Hyper Political Nature of International Environmental Law
The recent post by Daniel Bodansky and Suan Biniaz on the possible chilling effects of the ICJâs advisory opinion on climate change, as well as the recent ruminations on the state of the world and th...
https://www.ejiltalk.org/the-hyper-political-nature-of-international-environmental-law/
3 months ago
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Pakistani farmers to sue German polluters over climate-linked flood damage
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Pakistani farmers to sue German polluters over climate-linked flood damage
Claimants seek compensation from RWE and Heidelberg Materials after extreme flooding destroyed harvests
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/28/pakistani-farmers-to-sue-german-polluters-over-climate-linked-flood-damage
3 months ago
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Singapore drafts framework for cross-border trade of renewable energy certificates within Asean
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Singapore drafts framework for cross-border trade of renewable energy certificates within Asean
It aims to help countries standardise their approaches for tracking and accounting of RECs Read more at The Business Times.
https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/esg/singapore-drafts-framework-cross-border-trade-renewable-energy-certificates-within-asean
3 months ago
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Let the courts decide? The Potential and Limitations of Climate Litigation from a Democracy Perspective
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Let the courts decide? The Potential and Limitations of Climate Litigation from a Democracy Perspective
Climate litigation has emerged as an important tool in addressing the gap between climate commitments and implementation. Since the late 1980s, nearly 3,000 cases have been brought worldwide, with a m...
https://www.idea.int/publications/catalogue/let-courts-decide-potential-and-limitations-climate-litigation
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ESG's Green Loans and the governing Green Loan Principles
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ESG's Green Loans and the governing Green Loan Principles
The growing awareness about environmental, social, and governance (ESG) has prompted the corporate use of green loans in implementing green business projects. G
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5557960
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A Legal Perspective on Impact Investing and Greenwashing Risk For Ocean Protection: The Case of Blue Bonds
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https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5583212
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Systemic biodiversity litigation: how litigation addresses structural causes and drivers of biodiversity loss
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https://academic.oup.com/jel/advance-article/doi/10.1093/jel/eqaf027/8280064?searchresult=1
3 months ago
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Framework for environmental, social and human rights impact assessments and the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment
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https://www.ohchr.org/en/documents/thematic-reports/a80187-report-special-rapporteur-human-right-clean-healthy-and
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A scandal waiting to happen
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A scandal waiting to happen
A case almost unknown to the British public raises profound questions of justice in the UK.
https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/commentary-and-opinion/a-scandal-waiting-to-happen/5124822.article
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Opportunities for corporate climate litigation in Southeast Asia
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https://www.elgaronline.com/view/journals/apjel/28/1/article-p87.xml
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A Legal Perspective on Impact Investing and Greenwashing Risk For Ocean Protection: The Case of Blue Bonds
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A Legal Perspective on Impact Investing and Greenwashing Risk For Ocean Protection: The Case of Blue Bonds
This chapter examines the legal architecture of blue bonds as a novel instrument of impact investing designed to finance sustainable marine and ocean-relat
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5583212
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The pollution court case that could reach far beyond the banks of the River Wye
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The pollution court case that could reach far beyond the banks of the River Wye
The legal action is being taken on behalf of thousands of claimants.
https://theconversation.com/the-pollution-court-case-that-could-reach-far-beyond-the-banks-of-the-river-wye-267272
3 months ago
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ASEAN Taxonomy Board Version 4 Insights
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: ASEAN Taxonomy Board Version 4 Insights. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_YcvVZxAeR3aeuiUUa_OXKw#/registration
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Guide to Transition Loans
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https://www.lma.eu.com/application/files/9917/6035/1809/Guide_to_Transition_Loans_-_16_October_2025.pdf#msdynmkt_trackingcontext=b0721e25-5d10-4bea-8533-2d583fce0200
4 months ago
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Thousands in UK take legal action against Johnson & Johnson over alleged talc cancer link
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Thousands in UK take legal action against Johnson & Johnson over alleged talc cancer link
High court claim says company knowingly sold product containing asbestos and âconcealedâ risk to public
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/oct/16/thousands-in-uk-open-case-against-johnson-johnson-over-alleged-talcum-powder-cancer-link?utm_source=gazette_newsletter
4 months ago
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US fiduciary duty law can justify both action and inaction on climate risk, report says
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US fiduciary duty law can justify both action and inaction on climate risk, report says
Legal minefield makes fiduciaries afraid of misinterpreting their duties on climate, says report co-author Cynthia Hanawelt of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law.
https://greencentralbanking.com/2025/10/15/us-fiduciary-duty-law-can-justify-both-action-and-inaction-on-climate-risk-report-says/?utm_source=linkedin
4 months ago
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Law beyond Modernity #3: Whatever happened to the Climate Emergency (and what does it mean for the role of law in the 21st century)?
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Law beyond Modernity #3: Whatever happened to the Climate Emergency (and what does it mean for the role of law in the 21st century)?
How the political pushback may force us to be lawyers first, businesses second, as the same attitude threatens rule of law, democracy and justice
https://theuncertainsolicitor.substack.com/p/law-beyond-modernity-3-whatever-happened?r=mrg6c
4 months ago
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Landmark deal to cut global shipping emissions in tatters after US pressure
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Landmark global shipping deal abandoned under US threats - BBC News
President Trump intervened in the talks calling the deal a "green scam".
https://www-bbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3vnl0yxg53o.amp
4 months ago
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The IMO and the law of the jungle
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The IMO and the law of the jungle
The IMO has delayed its big climate vote for a year, avoiding its moment of truth on adopting the worldâs first global carbon price. The anticlimax leaves shipping in the green purgatory to which it has become accustomed
https://www.lloydslist.com/LL1155148/The-IMO-and-the-law-of-the-jungle
4 months ago
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Red Tractor ad banned for misleading environmental claims
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Red Tractor ad banned for misleading environmental claims - BBC News
The Advertising Standards Authority upheld a complaint by environment charity River Action.
https://www-bbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2lmnvj3n5o.amp
4 months ago
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Parliament passes Bill to allow Singapore to impose green aviation fuel levy on departing flights
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Singapore to impose green aviation fuel levy
Singapore passes a new Bill to impose a fixed levy on departing flights, funding sustainable aviation fuel to decarbonize the industry. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.
https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/politics/parliament-passes-bill-to-allow-spore-to-impose-green-aviation-fuel-levy-on-departing-flights
4 months ago
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The Right to a Healthy Environment in Practice: A Decade Before the Courts (2015-2025)
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The Right to a Healthy Environment in Practice: A Decade Before the Courts (2015-2025)
The Right to a Healthy Environment in Practice: A Decade Before the Courts (2015-2025) Report identifies and examines trends and developments in the interpretation of the Right to Healthy Environment ...
https://www.unep.org/resources/report/right-healthy-environment-practice-decade-courts-2015-2025
4 months ago
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Environmental Justice in Law School Curricula and The Hong Kong Context
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<p>Environmental Justice in Law School Curricula and The Hong Kong Context</p>
Climate change poses an existential threat, disproportionately impacting marginalized communities. This article explores integrating environmental justice princ
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5368515
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CCS Issues Guide to Help Businesses Make Clear and Accurate Product Claims
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CCS Issues Guide to Help Businesses Make Clear and Accurate Product Claims
https://www.ccs.gov.sg/media-and-events/newsroom/announcements-and-media-releases/ccs-issues-guide-to-help-businesses-make-clear-and-accurate-product-claims
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SVI and GAIL Join Forces to Advance the True & Fair Project Worldwide
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SVI and GAIL join forces to advance the True & Fair Project worldwide â Social Value International
What does it take to make company accounts reflect reality? At Social Value International (SVI), we believe the answer lies in bringing together legal requirements with accounting frameworks. Thatâs w...
https://www.socialvalueint.org/blog/svi-and-gail-join-forces-to-advance-the-true-and-fair-project-worldwide
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Movement Lawyering Matters
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Movement Lawyering Matters
By Cynthia Houniuhi, Aditi Shetye, Johanna Gusman, and Joie Chowdhury Since the delivery of the historic International Court of Justice (ICJ) Advisory Opinion on Statesâ obligations in respect of c...
https://sdg.iisd.org/commentary/guest-articles/movement-lawyering-matters/
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Over 3,000 climate litigation cases are reshaping global climate policy today
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Over 3,000 climate litigation cases are reshaping global climate policy today
Nairobi, 3 October 2025 â Climate litigation is now being pursued across more countries than ever before, according to a report published today by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Sabin Cen...
https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/press-release/over-3000-climate-litigation-cases-are-reshaping-global-climate
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Climate risk is professional risk â new tools for commercial lawyers
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Climate risk is professional risk - new tools for commercial lawyers
https://chancerylaneproject.org/news/climate-risk-is-professional-risk-new-tools-for-commercial-lawyers/
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Smart-Mix or Stupid Assurances? How Businesses Used Voluntary Initiatives to (De)Legitimize Supply Chain Regulation
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SmartâMix or Stupid Assurances? How Businesses Used Voluntary Initiatives to (De)Legitimize Supply Chain Regulation
Mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence (HREDD) policies seem to represent a pathbreaking shift from voluntary measures to binding rules for global supply chains. Yet these policies en....
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1758-5899.70075
4 months ago
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From Sidelines to Center Stage Conferences of the Parties (COPs) as Legal Playmakers
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From Sidelines to Center Stage
https://verfassungsblog.de/icj-climate-advisory-opinion-conferences-of-the-parties/
4 months ago
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Lessons for COP30: 3 Reasons Why Environmental Treaties Consistently Fail
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3 Reasons Why Environmental Treaties Consistently Fail
Environmental treaties consistently fail to translate into concrete action because of poor clarity, excessive breadth, and a lack of depth.
https://earth.org/lessons-for-cop30-3-reasons-why-environmental-treaties-consistently-fail/
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The future of ESG in a divided world: How is that affecting distributorships?
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The future of ESG in a divided world: How is that affecting distributorships? | International Bar Association
A webinar presented by the IBA International Commerce and Distribution Committee and the IBA Healthcare & Life Sciences Law Committee Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) including diversity & ...
https://www.ibanet.org/conference-details/CONF2778
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First treaty to protect marine life in high seas to take effect in January
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First treaty to protect marine life in high seas to take effect in January
Worldâs first-ever pact aims to fight threats like climate change, over-fishing and deep-sea mining.
https://www-aljazeera-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2025/9/20/first-treaty-to-protect-marine-life-in-high-seas-to-take-effect-in-january
4 months ago
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Trump Administration Steps Back from International Environmental Cooperation
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Trump Administration Steps Back from International Environmental Cooperation
As part of a series of short articles in the American Journal of International Law on the effects of the Trump administration on international law, this article
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5507123
4 months ago
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Singapore firm rejects US$1 billion Sri Lankan pollution damages
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Singapore firm rejects US$1 billion Sri Lankan pollution damages
SINGAPORE: A Singapore shipping company told AFP on Tuesday (Sep 23) it will refuse to pay Sri Lankan court-ordered damages of US$1 billion for causing that country's worst case of environmental
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/x-press-feeders-rejects-pollution-damages-sri-lanka-pollution-shipping-5363211
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An International Study on Coral Reef Litigation: The Fiction of Ecological Remedy
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An International Study on Coral Reef Litigation: The Fiction of Ecological Remedy
Ship groundings and oil spills continue to destroy coral ecosystems with impunity, despite growing global attention to reef degradation. Yet, the complex task o
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5438215
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Fukushimaâs Nuclear Wastewater Discharge: The Law and Environmental Justice Dilemma
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Fukushimaâs Nuclear Wastewater Discharge: The Law and Environmental Justice Dilemma â GNHRE
https://gnhre.org/?p=18462
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The Legal Power of Highest Possible Ambition: Setting Legal and Scientific Indicators to Assess Highest Possible Ambition under Article 4(3) of the Paris Agreement
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https://brill.com/view/journals/clla/15/1-2/article-p7_002.xml
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TRAGEDY OF THE HORIZON 10 YEARS ON
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Tragedy of the Horizon
10 years after this famous climate finance risk speech, experts are taking stock: What progress has been made? and, What needs to change?
https://www.tragedyofthehorizon.org/
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Evolving frameworks for sustainable finance: regulatory and market trends across jurisdictions
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Evolving frameworks for sustainable finance: regulatory and market trends across jurisdictions | International Bar Association
A webinar presented by the IBA Banking & Financial Law Committee, supported by the IBA Young Lawyersâ Committee and the IBAâs Legal Policy & Research Unit The session will explore how evolving ESG reg...
https://www.ibanet.org/conference-details/CONF2783
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How fiduciary duty is shaping pension fund attitudes towards climate risk
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How fiduciary duty is shaping pension fund attitudes towards climate risk
Pensions funds are wrestling with questions about how fiduciary duty applies to sustainability issues, says legal epert Zaneta Sedilekova.
https://greencentralbanking.com/2025/09/23/how-fiduciary-duty-is-shaping-pension-fund-attitudes-towards-climate-risk/?utm_source=linkedin
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The ICJâs Advisory Opinion on Climate Change: Does It Throw a Wrench into the Negotiatorâs Toolbox of Diplomatic Problem-Solving Techniques?
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The ICJâs Advisory Opinion on Climate Change: Does It Throw a Wrench into the Negotiatorâs Toolbox of Diplomatic Problem-Solving Techniques?
The International Court of Justiceâs recent Advisory Opinion on Climate Change (AO) has been widely celebrated by many States, non-governmental groups, and commentators as a victory for climate ambiti...
https://www.ejiltalk.org/the-icjs-advisory-opinion-on-climate-change-does-it-throw-a-wrench-into-the-negotiators-toolbox-of-diplomatic-problem-solving-techniques/
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UN expresses concern over Express Pearlâs refusal to pay compensation to Sri Lanka
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UN Expresses Concern Over Express Pearlâs Refusal To Pay Compensation To Sri Lanka
The United Nations has taken note of Singaporeâs refusal to accept a Supreme Court order to pay $1 billion in compensation for the Express Pearl maritime
https://www.thecolombopost.org/2025/09/un-expresses-concern-over-express-pearls-refusal-to-pay-compensation-to-sri-lanka/
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Overloadingâ and Separation of Powers Arguments: Reflections on Pabai v Commonwealth of Australia
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âClimate Overloadingâ and Separation of Powers Arguments: Reflections on Pabai v Commonwealth of Australia â Australian Public Law
Liz Hicks
https://www.auspublaw.org/home/2025/09/climate-overloading-and-separation-of-powers-arguments-reflections-on-pabai-v-commonwealth-of-australia-tphay
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The corporate governance trilemma
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The corporate governance trilemma
Abstract. The thesis of this Article is that the ESG movement has been stunted by the failure to appreciate a trilemma: you cannot have responsive governan
https://academic.oup.com/jla/article/17/1/141/8255540?rss=1
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Singapore to update carbon credit eligibility list following first purchase of nature-based credit
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Singapore to update carbon credit eligibility list following first purchase of nature-based credits
Project developers using these methodologies must meet the Republic's safeguards. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.
https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/singapore-to-update-carbon-credit-eligibility-list-following-first-purchase-of-nature-based-credits
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US is violating human rights laws by backing fossil fuels, say young activists in new petition
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US is violating human rights laws by backing fossil fuels, say young activists in new petition
Petition says that US governmentâs protection of fossil fuel interests has put people in harmâs way
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/25/young-activists-fossil-fuel-petition-us-government
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Incentives for buying EVs extended; hybrids no longer eligible
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Incentives for buying EVs extended; hybrids no longer eligible
The Vehicular Emissions Scheme, which encourages drivers to buy vehicles with lower emissions, will be extended to the end of 2027.
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/ves-eeai-scheme-extended-cars-coe-nea-lta-5337741?cid=FBcna
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