Category C

Corporate Limited Liability

Corporate Limited Liability refers to a business structure created by statute that corporations can adopt in order to shield owners from personal responsibility for debts or liabilities accrued by the corporation.

Committee on the Rights of the Child

The Committee on the Rights of the Child is an international body established by the Convention on the Rights of the Child in order to oversee the implementation of the Convention and compliance with it.

Convention on the Rights of the Child

The Convention on the Rights of the Child is an international human rights agreement that affirms the rights to which children are entitled and provides the obligations countries must satisfy in order to protect those rights.

Common but differentiated responsibilties

The term “common but differentiated responsibilites” refers to a principle of international environmental law “establishing that all states are responsible for addressing global environmental destruction yet not equally responsible. The principle balances, on the one hand, the need for all…

Causal Link

A relationship between an action or inaction and a situation where the action or inaction at least partially causes the situation to arise.

Carbon budget

A carbon budget refers to the finite quantity of carbon dioxide (CO2) that can be emitted before reaching a limit on the increase in average temperature (e.g., 1.5 degrees Celsius or well below 2 degrees Celsius). A carbon budget can…