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CLIMATE CHANGE INITIATIVE

"We, the human species, are confronting a planetary emergency - a threat to the survival of our civilization that is gathering ominous and destructive potential even as we gather here. But there is hopeful news as well: we have the ability to solve this crisis and avoid the worst - though not all - of its consequences, if we act boldly, decisively and quickly. ... CO2 is invisible, tasteless, and odorless - which has helped keep the truth about what it is doing to our climate out of sight and out of mind. Moreover, the catastrophe now threatening us is unprecedented - and we often confuse the unprecedented with the improbable. ... The future is knocking at our door right now. Make no mistake, the next generation will ask us one of two questions. Either they will ask: 'What were you thinking; why didn't you act?' Or they will ask instead: 'How did you find the moral courage to rise and successfully resolve a crisis that so many said was impossible to solve?' We have everything we need to get started, save perhaps political will, but political will is a renewable resource. So let us renew it, and say together: 'We have a purpose. We are many. For this purpose we will rise, and we will act.'" Al Gore, Nobel Lecture, Oslo, December 10, 2007. To read the entire lecture, visit here.

ENR Program Tackles Global Warming

News

May 2008 Professor Mary Wood Interviewed on The Reality Report on Climate Crisis

August 16, 2007 Professor Wood gives an engaging (and short) three-part interview on global warming that is spreading like wildfire. To download clips of and the full interview, visit here.

Conferences and Events

Combating Climate Change on the Regional Level: West Coast Policy and Litigation, October 19, 2007, Fall Symposium sponsored by the Journal of Environmental Law and Litigation and the Environmental and Natural Resources Law Program. For more information, see http://www.law.uoregon.edu/org/jell
/climate.php.

Global Warming Forum, Massachusetts v. EPA, April 9, 2007, University of Oregon School of Law, Eugene, OR.

Curriculum

For a complete list of the ENR curriculum, visit http://www.law.uoregon.edu/org/enr/courses.html.

Project and Fellows

This webpage is hosted by the Global Environmental Democracy Project, a facet of the ENR Program driven by the fellow's research priorities. Their motto -- Preparing students to be advocates for global change.

Kevin Parks

A second year law student, Kevin focuses on international environmental law, and the institutional processes that can pave the way towards a sustainable dynamic between healthy economic development and natural resource management and conservation.

Sha Talebi

Recent Scholarship

ADJUDICATING CLIMATE CHANGE: SUB-NATIONAL, NATIONAL, AND SUPRA-NATIONAL APPROACHES, Hari Osofsky and William C.G. Burns (co-editor), (2007).

Climate Change Litigation as Pluralist Legal Dialogue?, Hari Osofsky, Stanford Env. L.J. & Stanford J. Int'l L. (2007) (Joint Issue) (Selected for Stanford Climate Symposium).

The Right to Frozen Water: The Institutional Spaces for Supranational Climate Change Petitions, in Progress in International Institutions: Confronting the 21st Century, Hari Osofsky, (2007, Martinus Nijhoff).

Local Approaches to Transnational Corporate Responsibility: Mapping the Role of Sub-National Climate Change Litigation, Hari Osofsky, Pacific McGeorge Global Bus. & Dev. L.J. (2007) (Conference Proceedings Issue).

Transporting Climate Change: The Local Dimensions of a Global Environmental Problem, Hari Osofsky, THE NEXT AMERICAN CITY (2006).

The Geography of Climate Change Litigation: Implications for Transnational Regulatory Governance, Hari Osofsky, 83 WASH. U. L. Q. 1789 (2005).

Nature's Trust: A Legal, Political and Moral Frame for Global Warming, Mary Wood, Boston College Environmental Affairs Law Review (forthcoming May, 2007).

Faculty

Adell Amos	Professor Amos joined the faculty in 2005 to serve as the Director of the Environmental and Natural Resources Law Program. She also teaches Water Law, Wildlife Law and Civil Procedure. She developed her research interest in water law while working in the Solicitor's Office at the United States Department of the Interior representing the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Park Service on water issues including general stream adjudications, negotiated water rights settlements and state permitting processes. She is currently working on a project that examines the impact of regional shifts in water availability on water allocation and distribution systems in the eastern and western United States.
John Bonine	Professor Bonine is former Associate General Counsel for Air Quality for the U.S. EPA in Washington, D.C. He was in charge of EPA's legal positions under the Clean Air Act in the 1970s. At EPA, he defended over 200 lawsuits brought by industry and others that challenged EPA regulations. Prof. Bonine has published a casebook, The Law of Environmental Protection, which teaches law students about this and other pollution laws. His focus is on the power and techniques of EPA, States, and cities to regulate global warming, with a special expertise in "technology-forcing."
Richard Hildreth	Law professor Richard Hildreth, Director of the University of Oregon Ocean & Coastal Law Center, is an expert on the legal implications of climate change for U.S. and international management of ocean and coastal resources. He teaches about international, national, and subnational responses to climate change in his International Environmental Law course.
Svitlana Kravchenko	Professor Svitlana Kravchenko is an expert in climate change issues internationally. She teaches science, international treaties - UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and Kyoto Protocol, implementation of and compliance with treaties, cases and litigation in the US and other countries - in her course Global Environmental Challenges. Prof. Kravchenko made presentations at the conferences at the University of Oregon and the George Washington University. Intersection of the climate change and human rights is part of her forthcoming casebook "Human Rights and the Environment" (accepted by the Carolina Academic Press, in co-authorship with Prof. John Bonine and Don Anton).
Hari Osofsky	A professor at the law school, Hari Osofsky is an expert on climate change litigation. She has an edited book forthcoming with Cambridge University Press, a textbook that is in final contract negotiations with Aspen Press, and articles in many leading journals. She presents on the topic frequently, including at the University of Oregon, Stanford, UC Davis, the American Society of International Law, the American Association of Law Schools, and a major international environmental conference in Berlin. She assisted with the Inuit petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human rights claiming that U.S. climate change policy violated their rights, and will be teaching a seminar in fall 2007 on climate change litigation.
Mary Wood	A natural resources law/federal Indian law/property law professor, Mary Wood is studying domestic climate litigation involving states and federal agencies. Her focus is on the politicization of agency regulation in this area and the viability of judicial review. She is exploring common law claims brought by states and tribes against the federal government for its failure to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. Professor Wood is a co-author of a national textbook in natural resources law and authoring a forthcoming book, Nature's Trust, in which she argues that the global atmosphere is a property asset owned by all nations of the world as sovereign trustees who hold a duty of protection towards future generations.

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