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Summer/Fall 2021
Awards and Recognition On August 4, Michael Burger, Jessica Wentz and Radley Horton were featured as the winning authors in the 2021 Environmental Law and Policy Annual Review for their paper The Law and Science of Climate Change Attribution. On July 31, the South Fork Natural History Museum awarded Michael Gerrard its “Environmental Education Visionary Award” at its 32nd annual summer gala. Online Resources
• New York City Climate Law Tracker The New York City Climate Law Tracker monitors New York City’s progress in implementing the Climate Mobilization Act, a suite of local laws that were enacted in 2019. The most prominent of these is Local Law 97, which places limits on the amount of greenhouse gases that large buildings may emit.
• New York State Climate Law Tracker The New York State Climate Law Tracker monitors New York’s progress in implementing its path-breaking Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, Environmental Justice Law, Community Risk and Resiliency Act, and Accelerated Renewable Energy Growth and Community Benefit Act.
• Climate Attribution Database The Climate Attribution Database, developed in collaboration between the Sabin Center and Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, is a repository of scientific infomation relevant to climate litigation and policy-making. Climate attribution science plays a central role in climate litigation and policy-making. The science is central to legal debates on the causal links between human activities, global climate change, and impacts on human and natural systems
• Carbon Dioxide Removal Law Database The Sabin Center and the Center on Global Energy Policy maintain the Carbon Dioxide Removal Law Database, an annotated bibliography of legal materials related to carbon dioxide removal and carbon sequestration and use..
