Guarini Center at NYU School of Law

📢 We are thrilled to announce that we will be partnering with the Center on Race, Inequality and the Law at NYU Law on this vital initiative to address environmental racism. Stay tuned for more updates!

There is still time to register for this Climate Breakfast Seminar (16th December, in person or online) with Bryce Rudyk from Guarini Center at NYU School of Law New York University School of Law, who is visiting CLIMA - Centre for Climate Change Law and Governance Københavns Universitet - University of Copenhagen after presenting oral arguments at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on obligations of states with respect to climate change (request for an advisory opinion), to discuss key insights of this process. https://lnkd.in/djgSTjMz Copenhagen Center for Disaster Research (COPE), Green Solutions Centre - Københavns Universitet

Today the Guarini Center's Bryce Rudyk is giving oral arguments at the International Court of Justice #ICJ on obligations of states with respect to climate change on behalf of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) of Small Island States. Watch the oral argument live here:  https://lnkd.in/dUC4mGyV

🌟 New article! Our Executive Director, Christine Billy was published in Ecology Law Quarterly. The article draws on the example of OSHA’s consideration of an emergency heat rule and the COVID-19 pandemic to offer a new way of thinking about the use of emergency power by federal administrative agencies in the climate context. https://lnkd.in/eEZxus7V

🌟 Student spotlight! As states move forward with the energy transition, community engagement during implementation will remain critical. Former Guarini Center at NYU School of Law Research Assistant Ally Potamianos analyzed the use of host community agreements with developers in the siting of six renewable energy facilities in New York in "How to Blow Up a Solar Farm: Local Opposition to Renewable Energy Projects." Read the full article in the Environmental Law Reporter here! https://lnkd.in/ebSdvR2t

🐿️ A reminder to listen in on "Integrating Wild Animal Welfare into Municipal Policy" tomorrow (12/3), hosted by the Environmental Law Institute. Register here: https://lnkd.in/eW7yjp8P

🐦 🦊 Check out this important discussion on 12/3 hosted by the Environmental Law Institute, "Integrating Wild Animal Welfare into Municipal Policy," and hear our faculty director, Katrina Wyman discuss work by the Guarini Center at NYU School of Law on how cities can consider wild animal welfare in their land use policies! https://lnkd.in/eW7yjp8P

🚘 📢 New article! Our Executive Director, Christine Billy analyzes the pending litigation challenging Governor Hochul’s pause of NY's congestion pricing program and explores how these cases raise questions of state governance, including: Who gets to determine the fate of the congestion pricing program? What legislative, administrative, and judicial processes must be followed to ensure democratic legitimacy and good governance? And what do current decision-makers owe to future generations? Thank you to the Municipal Lawyer and the New York State Bar Association for this series. Read the article here: https://lnkd.in/eknrykW5

🌟 There's still time to register for "New York City's Electricity History and Future" tomorrow 11/12 at 6pm with the illuminating Richard Miller at New York University School of Law! https://lnkd.in/e3Rhy_rk

📢 This week our Executive Director Christine Billy and Senior Legal Fellow Nathaniel Mattison filed comments to NYS Department of Environmental Conservation and NYSERDA regarding how to spend the state's Climate Investment Account, emphasizing the need to act at speed and scale to meet the state's climate goals and promote environmental justice. Specifically, they urged NYSDEC and NYSERDA to: ✏️ Align their recommendations for spending the Climate Investment Account’s funds with the overall framework of the state’s Scoping Plan, which contemplates a comprehensive and coherent state strategy to drive down New York’s GHG emissions at speed and scale, utilizing a combination of complementary regulatory, market-based, and financial investment policy levers; ✏️ Model and disclose how different funding allocations will influence GHG and co-pollutant reductions across economic sectors, geographies, and the state economy as a whole; ✏️ Allocate funds so that the benefits of those investments accrue to disadvantaged communities in compliance with the state climate law (CLCPA), and develop a clear rubric for understanding and tracking benefits to those communities; and ✏️ Give detailed consideration to how funds will be delivered, including how to address structural barriers to ensure that GHG and co-pollutant reductions are achieved equitably and efficiently. Check out the full comments here: https://lnkd.in/eGYDim7R