Executive Director @SabinCenter
New York, NY
Joined October 2011
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Mike Burger retweeted
🌍 ⚖️ 🌱 We are disheartened by the #USelection news. The @SabinCenter is as committed as ever to carrying out our work: developing legal tools, engaging w/ agencies & courts, and training the next generation of lawyers to combat the #climatecrisis. @MichaelGerrard @ProfBurger
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⚖️🏢📑Today, the @SabinCenter filed an amicus brief, emphasizing the role that local governments play in reducing GHG emissions statewide & the chilling effect that a lack of certainty about preemption by the CLCPA could have on local climate policies. ⤵️i.mtr.cool/thjrmorlln
Mike Burger retweeted
Enactment of Vermont's Climate Superfund Act is unprecedented in the world of climate law. However, it will surely be challenged in court. Sabin Center analysis from March of this and other similar then-pending bills, and some legal issues they'll face: bit.ly/3VoaQmy
BREAKING: Vermont's Climate Superfund Act officially becomes law, w/ Gov. Scott declining to sign or veto the bill. This makes VT the first state to hold #BigOil liable for climate damages - a historic leap in #ClimateAccountability
What a day for accountability!
Mike Burger retweeted
🌍📈 Dive into the latest trends shaping the future of #climatelitigation against governments in @lucysmaxwell, April Williamson, and @SarahLeslieMead's latest blog post. 👉buff.ly/4aqznwl
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In this new video from Science for the Planet, our explainer series on climate change effects + solutions, @SabinCenter expert Romany Webb discusses legal frameworks for ocean-based carbon removal to help ensure that it is safe, just, and responsible. news.climate.columbia.edu/20…
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Many US cities are leading the way in cutting greenhouse gas emissions but face laws that weren't designed with climate action in mind. A new book by @SabinCenter's @ProfBurger and @amyturner explains how to fight climate change within existing laws. news.climate.columbia.edu/20…
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Our brief explains how climate science can inform the IACtHR's assessment of State obligations related to GHG mitigation, climate change adaptation, climate finance, loss and damage, access to information, public participation, and access to justice. #HumanRights #ClimateJustice
📣 🌏📜 On November 3, the @SabinCenter submitted an amicus brief to the @IACourtHR on climate law, #humanrights & climate science. This submission responds to the Request for Advisory Opinion presented by Colombia & Chile. Read about it ⤵️ buff.ly/3sgZg0R
Mike Burger retweeted
🌟 Read about @SabinCenter's profile -- its leadership under @MichaelGerrard & Michael Burger (@ProfBurger), its groundbreaking and prolific research, resources & initiatives and how it is “carving out its role in developing a new era of climate law.”
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📣📗 URBAN CLIMATE LAW: An Earth Institute Sustainability Primer is now available for preorder! Authors Michael Burger & Amy Turner examine the key issues surrounding #climate policies across the🏬🚐🗑️🔋sectors: buff.ly/3PPXXyT @ColumbiaUP @columbiaclimate #resource
Mike Burger retweeted
🐻❄ 🧊 “Science supports drawing a causal connection from emissions from specific sources to #climatechange impacts in specific places. Studies like this one without question reinforce the argument,” said @ProfBurger: buff.ly/3PawWEH @insideclimate
Mike Burger retweeted
🔎 Explore our #climateattribution database -- a repository of scientific information relevant to #climatelitigation & policy-making -- it contains 603 resources under 4 themes:
1️⃣ Climate Change
2️⃣ Extreme Event
3️⃣ Impact
4️⃣ Source
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Mike Burger retweeted
The link to this article will only be live for a few weeks so check it out now!
US law requires environmental review of new #FossilFuel projects. But these analyses have been contentious, with fractured approaches & results.
@SEI_Erickson and @Earthjustice's @JanHasselman provide climate test principles in a new article:
buff.ly/3KGMUF6
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📢 Delve into "Modelling Climate Litigation Risk for (Re)Insurers" – a report tackling the challenge of quantifying #ClimateLitigation risk for insurers. Explore the toolkit to understand the categories of climate litigation & how to model potential risks. buff.ly/43WX2jI
Mike Burger retweeted
The Climate Litigation report by @ProfBurger @toniatigre @SabinCenter is out & shows how litigation has become a key driver of mitigation & adaptation
More than ever before, citizens are telling governments & industry "we'll see you in court"
Report: tinyurl.com/2zvtcp6m
Mike Burger retweeted
💼 #JobAlert: The @SabinCenter is hiring an Associate Research Scholar as part of our Renewable Energy Legal Defense Initiative (buff.ly/41VD7Sr)
More details & how to apply here: buff.ly/3OlaAkY #renewableenergy #jobs
Mike Burger retweeted
Our nation’s first constitutional climate trial, brought by plaintiffs ranging from toddlers to teenagers in #Montana, is underway. @SabinCenter’s Michael Burger explains what’s at stake:
bit.ly/439YlvQ
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⚖️ The US #SupremeCourt declined to hear a petition on whether #climateliability cases should be heard in state or federal court. As a result, 11 cases will be tried in state court. Korey Silverman-Roati delves into the factors that led to this decision: buff.ly/44YN6rY
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🎥 Missed @SabinCenter's Peer Review Network on Global #ClimateLitigatIon's latest webinar on "Advisory Opinions on #ClimateChange: An Overview of a Quartet of Simultaneous Requests? You can now watch the video of the event, which included three panels: buff.ly/3AXjzkn
Mike Burger retweeted
📌 On May 11, IDDRI,@SorbonneParis1 & @sciencespo are hosting a #webinar that will focus on a growing trend: the "personalisation" of #climate litigation, featuring our executive director @ProfBurger, @TorreSchaub, Sarah Barker & @vallejolola.
More info: buff.ly/3NGFkfW
Mike Burger retweeted
Firms are great at looking several quarters out, and they're learning to story-tell about their place in the distant imaginaries of climate models, but they remain blind to the turmoil just beyond the corporate horizon.
New blog from me @SabinCenter :
blogs.law.columbia.edu/clima…