David Rossati
@davidrossati.bsky.social
Assistant prof @ VU Amsterdam | international climate change law | climate finance | law & development | clinical legal education in the climate crisis https://research.vu.nl/en/persons/david-rossati
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🚨 BREAKING: EU countries have agreed to a weakened 2040 climate goal and have set a new target for COP30.
Read the story: www.politico.eu/article/eu-c...
Read the story: www.politico.eu/article/eu-c...
November 5, 2025 at 9:02 AM
🚨 BREAKING: EU countries have agreed to a weakened 2040 climate goal and have set a new target for COP30.
Read the story: www.politico.eu/article/eu-c...
Read the story: www.politico.eu/article/eu-c...
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Plastics Treaty talks are over. After 11 grueling days of delays, distractions, and gaslighting, we are leaving Geneva without a treaty. But countries stood firm against fossil-fueled interests — hope for an ambitious #PlasticsTreaty lives on.
🎥 @dlevialvares.bsky.social + @davzoul.bsky.social
🎥 @dlevialvares.bsky.social + @davzoul.bsky.social
August 15, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Plastics Treaty talks are over. After 11 grueling days of delays, distractions, and gaslighting, we are leaving Geneva without a treaty. But countries stood firm against fossil-fueled interests — hope for an ambitious #PlasticsTreaty lives on.
🎥 @dlevialvares.bsky.social + @davzoul.bsky.social
🎥 @dlevialvares.bsky.social + @davzoul.bsky.social
"The absence of a substantial discussion on climate change and disaster in the Court’s Opinion is thus not a gap; it is a discursive shift" 🔥
From Act of God to Act of Law: Rethinking Natural Hazards Disaster through the ICJ’s Climate Change Advisory Opinion | by Fia Hamid-Walker
From Act of God to Act of Law: Rethinking Natural Hazards Disaster through the ICJ’s Climate Change Advisory Opinion
On 23 July 2025, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued a landmark Advisory Opinion on the obligation of States in respect of climate change. Nowhere in the text does the Court meaningfully e...
www.ejiltalk.org
August 12, 2025 at 11:39 AM
"The absence of a substantial discussion on climate change and disaster in the Court’s Opinion is thus not a gap; it is a discursive shift" 🔥
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Brazil files WTO request for consultation over US tariffs, source says reut.rs/45hoag8
Brazil files WTO request for consultation over US tariffs, source says
Brazil's government has filed a request for consultations at the World Trade Organization over the tariffs imposed by the United States on goods from that country, a source familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.
reut.rs
August 6, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Brazil files WTO request for consultation over US tariffs, source says reut.rs/45hoag8
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ICYMI: My latest in Verfassungsblog, arguing that Germany's highest representatives failed miserably to discharge their constitutionally mandated obligation to uphold international lawby calling the use of force by Israel and the US against Iran out as what it was: clearly unlawful.
"What We Lost in the Skies Above Tehran"
HENNING LAHMANN (@hlahmann.bsky.social) on Germany’s failure to uphold international law – and why it’s not the breach of international law that threatens normative stability, but how the international community responds.
verfassungsblog.de/what-we-lost...
HENNING LAHMANN (@hlahmann.bsky.social) on Germany’s failure to uphold international law – and why it’s not the breach of international law that threatens normative stability, but how the international community responds.
verfassungsblog.de/what-we-lost...
July 25, 2025 at 2:32 PM
ICYMI: My latest in Verfassungsblog, arguing that Germany's highest representatives failed miserably to discharge their constitutionally mandated obligation to uphold international lawby calling the use of force by Israel and the US against Iran out as what it was: clearly unlawful.
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July 20, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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The key takeaway from the Global Tipping Points Conference at @exeter.ac.uk, where I've been this week, convening over 500 earth-system & other scientists:
Global heating over 1.5C risks setting off tipping points that would destroy the world. The hotter, the more danger.
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Global heating over 1.5C risks setting off tipping points that would destroy the world. The hotter, the more danger.
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July 4, 2025 at 2:02 PM
The key takeaway from the Global Tipping Points Conference at @exeter.ac.uk, where I've been this week, convening over 500 earth-system & other scientists:
Global heating over 1.5C risks setting off tipping points that would destroy the world. The hotter, the more danger.
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Global heating over 1.5C risks setting off tipping points that would destroy the world. The hotter, the more danger.
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An article that gets to the heart of what’s deeply problematic about market-based mitigation policies: workers are charged a climate rent and can’t decide where to prioritise mitigation efforts via democratic institutions🔥
New publication 🙌
It uses the concept of "climate rent" to critique the distribution of power and wealth in the EU Emissions Trading System.
It's part of an upcoming symposium on Marxism + EU law edited by Me, @pashukanist.bsky.social + @nanoboss.bsky.social
Read it here👉 doi.org/10.1017/elo....
It uses the concept of "climate rent" to critique the distribution of power and wealth in the EU Emissions Trading System.
It's part of an upcoming symposium on Marxism + EU law edited by Me, @pashukanist.bsky.social + @nanoboss.bsky.social
Read it here👉 doi.org/10.1017/elo....
July 4, 2025 at 9:02 AM
An article that gets to the heart of what’s deeply problematic about market-based mitigation policies: workers are charged a climate rent and can’t decide where to prioritise mitigation efforts via democratic institutions🔥
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Climate change is already as costly as the Great Depression & will soon match the Great Recession in financial impact. Though everybody wants to split the two, climate policy is actually economic policy.
My column for
@opinion.bloomberg.com
Now with 🎁 link:
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
My column for
@opinion.bloomberg.com
Now with 🎁 link:
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
July 2, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Climate change is already as costly as the Great Depression & will soon match the Great Recession in financial impact. Though everybody wants to split the two, climate policy is actually economic policy.
My column for
@opinion.bloomberg.com
Now with 🎁 link:
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
My column for
@opinion.bloomberg.com
Now with 🎁 link:
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
TDLR: 'From Apology to Utopia'
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/jun...
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/jun...
Are we witnessing the death of international law?
The long read: A growing number of scholars and lawyers are losing faith in the current system. Others say the law is not to blame, but the states that are supposed to uphold it
www.theguardian.com
June 26, 2025 at 7:57 AM
TDLR: 'From Apology to Utopia'
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/jun...
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/jun...
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The Israeli government has shown that it is not prepared to stop until every Palestinian in #Gaza is dead, disabled or displaced. Every day in which it is still armed and supported by Western states, our own included, is a stain on international law.
June 18, 2025 at 11:16 AM
The Israeli government has shown that it is not prepared to stop until every Palestinian in #Gaza is dead, disabled or displaced. Every day in which it is still armed and supported by Western states, our own included, is a stain on international law.
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In the long run, this is actually going to be the important news of the day--co2 in the atmosphere passes another grim milestone
May 2025 experienced the first 430 ppm+ monthly #co2 average in human history, per Keeling Curve: scripps.ucsd.edu/news/annual-...
Annual Carbon Dioxide Peak Passes Another Milestone
For the first time, the seasonal peak of carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere exceeded 430 parts per million (ppm) at NOAA’s Mauna Loa Observatory on Hawaii, scientists from NOAA and Scripp...
scripps.ucsd.edu
June 5, 2025 at 8:33 PM
In the long run, this is actually going to be the important news of the day--co2 in the atmosphere passes another grim milestone
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If you missed it, in the new Asymmetrical Haircuts I joined @margheritacapacci.bsky.social with the aim of trying to unpack the “Elmasry debacle” and the consequences of Italy’s failure to cooperate with the ICC! Link: www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/episodes/epi...
March 21, 2025 at 7:55 AM
If you missed it, in the new Asymmetrical Haircuts I joined @margheritacapacci.bsky.social with the aim of trying to unpack the “Elmasry debacle” and the consequences of Italy’s failure to cooperate with the ICC! Link: www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/episodes/epi...
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I’m am adaptation scientist and here’s what I had to say about this—many years ago already.
March 15, 2025 at 1:30 PM
I’m am adaptation scientist and here’s what I had to say about this—many years ago already.
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Thought-provoking photo from flooding in Brisbane, on Saturday, after Tropical Cyclone Alfred.
March 12, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Thought-provoking photo from flooding in Brisbane, on Saturday, after Tropical Cyclone Alfred.
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Day 1 of the national strikes against cuts in higher education and research 🟥
First op Leiden 💪🏽
@woinactie.bsky.social
Students and parents: now is the time to fight for your, your kids’ and future generations’ education.
First op Leiden 💪🏽
@woinactie.bsky.social
Students and parents: now is the time to fight for your, your kids’ and future generations’ education.
March 10, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Day 1 of the national strikes against cuts in higher education and research 🟥
First op Leiden 💪🏽
@woinactie.bsky.social
Students and parents: now is the time to fight for your, your kids’ and future generations’ education.
First op Leiden 💪🏽
@woinactie.bsky.social
Students and parents: now is the time to fight for your, your kids’ and future generations’ education.
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wrote a thing about disciplinary crises & politics, CLS vs. marxism, letters & signing things
& had lots of fun doing it ❤️🔥
& had lots of fun doing it ❤️🔥
Really excellent piece by @marinavelickovic.bsky.social on the current crisis of international law: criticallegalthinking.com/2025/03/03/t...
This could have been a Tweet, or: On the politics of signing things
In the wake of the Iraq war, a group of international lawyers published an open letter in the Guardian, framing their opposition to the invasion in
criticallegalthinking.com
March 3, 2025 at 9:20 AM
wrote a thing about disciplinary crises & politics, CLS vs. marxism, letters & signing things
& had lots of fun doing it ❤️🔥
& had lots of fun doing it ❤️🔥
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What was cancelled with USAID was systems
You don't stop Ebola with garlic and crosses
You don't keep planes in the air with a big wind machine
You don't keep nuclear weapons safe with a barking dog
Complex systems - not magical thinking - keep us safe
We don't see it until it fails
You don't stop Ebola with garlic and crosses
You don't keep planes in the air with a big wind machine
You don't keep nuclear weapons safe with a barking dog
Complex systems - not magical thinking - keep us safe
We don't see it until it fails
March 2, 2025 at 8:52 PM
What was cancelled with USAID was systems
You don't stop Ebola with garlic and crosses
You don't keep planes in the air with a big wind machine
You don't keep nuclear weapons safe with a barking dog
Complex systems - not magical thinking - keep us safe
We don't see it until it fails
You don't stop Ebola with garlic and crosses
You don't keep planes in the air with a big wind machine
You don't keep nuclear weapons safe with a barking dog
Complex systems - not magical thinking - keep us safe
We don't see it until it fails
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I get constant push back from military law colleagues as to whether (1) Israeli leaders have deliberately blocked aid and (2) have done so as a "weapon of war" - the core requirements of the war crime of starvation.
Well, hard to read this as anything else.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/...
Well, hard to read this as anything else.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/...
Israel cuts off aid to Gaza as it seeks to change ceasefire deal with Hamas
Israel stops entry of all goods and supplies into Gaza in bid to pressure Hamas into accepting new ceasefire proposal.
www.aljazeera.com
March 3, 2025 at 4:56 AM
I get constant push back from military law colleagues as to whether (1) Israeli leaders have deliberately blocked aid and (2) have done so as a "weapon of war" - the core requirements of the war crime of starvation.
Well, hard to read this as anything else.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/...
Well, hard to read this as anything else.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/...
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Large-scale loss of Mediterranean coastal marshes under rising sea levels by 2100 www.nature.com/articles/s43...
"For Egypt, France, and Algeria, we predict (near) total loss of coastal marshes by 2100..."
@claudiawolff.bsky.social @avafeidis.bsky.social
"For Egypt, France, and Algeria, we predict (near) total loss of coastal marshes by 2100..."
@claudiawolff.bsky.social @avafeidis.bsky.social
February 22, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Large-scale loss of Mediterranean coastal marshes under rising sea levels by 2100 www.nature.com/articles/s43...
"For Egypt, France, and Algeria, we predict (near) total loss of coastal marshes by 2100..."
@claudiawolff.bsky.social @avafeidis.bsky.social
"For Egypt, France, and Algeria, we predict (near) total loss of coastal marshes by 2100..."
@claudiawolff.bsky.social @avafeidis.bsky.social
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So far, the president’s freeze on climate and infrastructure law spending has been covered as a constitutional issue.
But Trump is also about to start breaching hundreds of federal contracts — and *that* could soon open a new front in the legal war. I wrote about it:
heatmap.news/politics/tru...
But Trump is also about to start breaching hundreds of federal contracts — and *that* could soon open a new front in the legal war. I wrote about it:
heatmap.news/politics/tru...
The Next Front of Trump’s Renewables War Is Contract Law
And that’s on top of the constitutional questions.
heatmap.news
February 12, 2025 at 11:43 PM
So far, the president’s freeze on climate and infrastructure law spending has been covered as a constitutional issue.
But Trump is also about to start breaching hundreds of federal contracts — and *that* could soon open a new front in the legal war. I wrote about it:
heatmap.news/politics/tru...
But Trump is also about to start breaching hundreds of federal contracts — and *that* could soon open a new front in the legal war. I wrote about it:
heatmap.news/politics/tru...
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A tale of two national climate plans: the Marshall Islands and Canada 🧵
February 12, 2025 at 12:11 PM
A tale of two national climate plans: the Marshall Islands and Canada 🧵
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There isn’t enough ‘sustainable’ aviation fuel to make a dent in our emissions – and there won’t be for years
theconversation.com/there-isnt-e...
theconversation.com/there-isnt-e...
There isn’t enough ‘sustainable’ aviation fuel to make a dent in our emissions – and there won’t be for years
It’s better than regular jet fuel, but beware the hype.
theconversation.com
February 11, 2025 at 12:44 PM
There isn’t enough ‘sustainable’ aviation fuel to make a dent in our emissions – and there won’t be for years
theconversation.com/there-isnt-e...
theconversation.com/there-isnt-e...
What type of climatic futures do the practices of international investment tribunals create when awarding compensations to fossil fuel companies? This article by Rob Aitken goes at the core of the incompatibility between this area of IL and long-term climate policy. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Climate futures in the time of the unbroken asset | International Journal of Law in Context | Cambridge Core
Climate futures in the time of the unbroken asset
www.cambridge.org
February 11, 2025 at 8:35 AM
What type of climatic futures do the practices of international investment tribunals create when awarding compensations to fossil fuel companies? This article by Rob Aitken goes at the core of the incompatibility between this area of IL and long-term climate policy. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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A case filed with the International Criminal Court (ICC) calls for investigations into Giorgia Meloni & other high-ranking Italian politicians. They are accused of helping an alleged war criminal escape from Italy to Libya.
Read more & find the published submission doc: https://buff.ly/4aQHTpa
Read more & find the published submission doc: https://buff.ly/4aQHTpa
February 10, 2025 at 2:29 PM
A case filed with the International Criminal Court (ICC) calls for investigations into Giorgia Meloni & other high-ranking Italian politicians. They are accused of helping an alleged war criminal escape from Italy to Libya.
Read more & find the published submission doc: https://buff.ly/4aQHTpa
Read more & find the published submission doc: https://buff.ly/4aQHTpa