Climate Change (generally)
Marine Protected Areas on the Uncertain Frontiers of Climate Change
Author
Vidya Vijayaraghavan
Author Bios (long)

Vidya Vijayaraghavan is an environmental lawyer from India and received an LL.M. from New York University School of Law in 2020 as a Vanderbilt Scholar.

Date
February 2021
Volume
51
Issue
2
Page
10116
Type
Articles
Summary

Scientific communities and policy experts argue that marine protected areas (MPAs) will increase the potential of marine ecosystems to tackle climate change impacts. Yet to date, there has been little legal scholarship about how to design, manage, and implement climate-resilient MPAs. This Article underscores the importance of considering climate change in the design, planning, and implementation of MPAs, and identifies mechanisms for incorporating climate change elements into MPAs. It highlights a newly developing international instrument, the draft biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction treaty, that provides opportunities for facilitating creation of MPAs; discusses the relevant articles of the latest draft; and emphasizes the potential to more fully incorporate climate change considerations. It also draws attention to the need to improve national-level frameworks governing MPAs to address climate change.

H.R. 466
Update Type
Committee Name
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Sponsor Name
Gonzalez
Sponsor Party Affiliation
R-Ohio
Issue
3
Volume
51
Update Issue
4
Update Volume
51
Congress Number
117
Congressional Record Number
167 Cong. Rec. H231

would prohibit the use of funds to provide for the United States to become a party to the Paris Agreement.

H. Res. 59
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Committee Name
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Sponsor Name
McKinley
Sponsor Party Affiliation
R-W. Va.
Issue
3
Volume
51
Update Issue
3
Update Volume
51
Congress Number
117
Congressional Record Number
167 Cong. Rec. H223

would express the sense of the House of Representatives that the Paris Agreement shall have no effect in the United States until it is renegotiated and receives the advice and consent to ratification of the U.S. Senate.

H.R. 420
Update Type
Committee Name
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Sponsor Name
Roy
Sponsor Party Affiliation
R-Tex.
Issue
3
Volume
51
Update Issue
3
Update Volume
51
Congress Number
117
Congressional Record Number
167 Cong. Rec. H222

would prohibit the use of funds to provide for the United States to become a party to the Paris Agreement.

H.R. 407
Update Type
Committee Name
Committee on Foreign Affairs and Committee on Energy and Commerce
Sponsor Name
McCaul
Sponsor Party Affiliation
R-Tex.
Issue
3
Volume
51
Update Issue
3
Update Volume
51
Congress Number
117
Congressional Record Number
167 Cong. Rec. H221

would require a notification relating to the nationally determined contribution of the United States prior to any submission with respect to such contribution under Article 4 of the Paris Agreement.

H.R. 395
Update Type
Committee Name
Committee on Foreign Affairs and Committee on Rules
Sponsor Name
Foxx
Sponsor Party Affiliation
R-N.C.
Issue
3
Volume
51
Update Issue
3
Update Volume
51
Congress Number
117
Congressional Record Number
167 Cong. Rec. H221

would require that the president report to Congress on a nationally determined contribution to the Paris Agreement prior to the submission of the nationally determined contribution to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Secretariat, and provide that nothing in the Paris Agreement may be used to establish or demonstrate the existence of a violation of U.S. law or an offense against the law of nations in U.S. courts.

H.R. 376
Update Type
Committee Name
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Sponsor Name
Boebert
Sponsor Party Affiliation
R-Colo.
Issue
3
Volume
51
Update Issue
3
Update Volume
51
Congress Number
117
Congressional Record Number
167 Cong. Rec. H220

would require the advice and consent to ratification of the Paris Agreement by the U.S. Senate before any action may be taken to carry out the goals of the Paris Agreement.

H. Res. 29
Update Type
Committee Name
Committee on Education and Labor
Sponsor Name
Lee
Sponsor Party Affiliation
D-Cal.
Issue
3
Volume
51
Update Issue
2
Update Volume
51
Congress Number
117
Congressional Record Number
167 Cong. Rec. H123

would support the teaching of climate change in schools.

H.R. 260
Update Type
Committee Name
Committee on Energy and Commerce
Sponsor Name
Lee
Sponsor Party Affiliation
D-Cal.
Issue
3
Volume
51
Update Issue
2
Update Volume
51
Congress Number
117
Congressional Record Number
167 Cong. Rec. H121

would address the disparate impact of climate change on women and support the efforts of women globally to address climate change.

H.R. 9034
Update Type
Committee Name
Committee on Agriculture
Sponsor Name
Schrier
Sponsor Party Affiliation
D-Wash.
Issue
2
Volume
51
Update Issue
1
Update Volume
51
Congress Number
116
Congressional Record Number
166 Cong. Rec. H7277

would amend the Competitive, Special, and Facilities Grant Act to include agricultural climate adaptation and mitigation as a priority area addressed by the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative.

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