Environmental Law & Regulations Flashcards
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Under the EU Taxonomy Regulation, an economic activity qualifies as environmentally sustainable only if it meets what conditions?
Answer: It substantially contributes to at least one environmental objective, does no significant harm to others, and meets minimum social safeguards
The EU Taxonomy requires activities to: (1) substantially contribute to at least one of six environmental objectives, (2) do no significant harm (DNSH) to the others, and (3) comply with minimum social safeguards.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's mandatory GHG reporting rule (40 CFR Part 98) requires annual reporting from facilities that emit above what threshold?
Answer: 25,000 metric tons CO₂e per year
EPA's GHGRP requires facilities emitting ≥25,000 metric tons CO₂e per year to report annual GHG emissions, covering about 85–90% of U.S. GHG emissions.
Which legal principle allows regulators to require a precautionary approach to potentially harmful activities even when scientific certainty about harm is lacking?
Answer: Precautionary Principle
The Precautionary Principle holds that where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost-effective measures.
Under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, cooperative approaches between countries that involve internationally transferred mitigation outcomes (ITMOs) must apply 'corresponding adjustments' to prevent what problem?
Answer: Double counting of emission reductions
Corresponding adjustments ensure that when a country sells mitigation outcomes, it adds those emissions back to its own accounting, preventing the same reduction from counting in two national inventories.
The Clean Air Act's Title IV Acid Rain Program was an early U.S. example of which market-based environmental policy instrument?
Answer: Cap-and-trade system
Title IV established a nationwide cap-and-trade system for SO₂ emissions from power plants, a pioneering market-based approach that significantly reduced acid rain.
Which IPCC report category assesses current scientific understanding of the physical science basis of climate change?
Answer: Working Group I (WGI)
IPCC Working Group I assesses the physical science of the climate system, including observations, attribution, and projections of future climate change.
Under the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CS3D), EU member state companies are required to conduct due diligence on adverse climate impacts across their entire what?
Answer: Value chain including upstream and downstream activities
CS3D requires in-scope companies to identify, prevent, mitigate, and account for adverse human rights and environmental impacts across their full value chain.