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Sarah J. Dorman

@sarahdorman.bsky.social
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Teaching Fellow & Supervising Attorney at Georgetown Law Focused on ✊ Human Rights 🌍 Environmental & Climate Justice ⚖️ Law Teaching ✏️ Posts are my own

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Our Children’s Trust @youthvgov.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
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
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Dana Drugmand @danad1012.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
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 News story coming soon
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Sarah J. Dorman @sarahdorman.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
🌎 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
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Inside Climate News @insideclimatenews.org · 18/12/2024
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.
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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.
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🌍⚖️ Sébastien Duyck @duycks.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
🌍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
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Richard Pearshouse @richardpearshouse.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
“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.”
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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 …
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Sarah J. Dorman @sarahdorman.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
🇺🇳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...
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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
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Sarah J. Dorman @sarahdorman.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
🧵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
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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...
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Sarah J. Dorman @sarahdorman.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
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 🌍
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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.
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Center for International Environmental Law @ciel.org · 06/12/2024
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... A 🧵👇
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Sarah J. Dorman @sarahdorman.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
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...
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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
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GENeva Environment Network @genevaenvironmentnetwork.org · 05/12/2024
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
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Sarah J. Dorman @sarahdorman.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
🧵 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
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Center for International Environmental Law @ciel.org · 04/12/2024
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.
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Center for International Environmental Law @ciel.org · 23/11/2024
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... A 🧵
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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.
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Lien Vandamme @lienvandamme.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
⚠️ 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...
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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...
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🌍⚖️ Sébastien Duyck @duycks.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
🚨🔥 #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
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