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Ranking Presidents on Climate Change

Legal Planet

played a crucial role in negotiating the Kyoto Protocol, which required developed countries to cut their carbon emissions 5% below 1990 levels. The Kyoto Protocol may have led to emission reductions in Europe, but there was never any real prospect that the Senate would ever ratify the agreement. Under Clinton, the U.S.

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IPCC Climate Report: Six Key Findings for Water

Circle of Blue

Between 2010 and 2020, the death rate from floods, storms, and droughts in high vulnerability areas was 15 times higher than in low vulnerability areas. There is still time to reduce carbon emissions — though scaling up a low-carbon economy requires marshalling political will, public support, technical expertise, and financing.

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These Attorneys General Are Defending the Fossil Fuel Industry, Not Their States

Union of Concerned Scientists

At least partly—if not largely—because the AGs and their political organization, the Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA), receive substantial financial support from fossil fuel companies, electric utilities, and their respective trade groups. After she took office in January 2019, that pledge went out the window.

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The EU-MERCOSUR Deal: A Litmus Test for Resolving the Growing Paradox of Development and Conservation

Vermont Law

There can be no political freedom without there also being economic freedom. the highest surge in fires since 2010. These criticisms arose over a concern for conserving the Amazon’s carbon sequestration potential and its abundant biodiversity. to the global emissions count. And vice-versa. contributing.

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Future costs of emissions three times higher than assumed finds study

A Greener Life

The US puts a dollar figure on the damage caused by carbon emissions, but new research finds it’s too low, meaning the benefits of reducing emissions are being underestimated. It’s designed to weigh the benefits of reducing warming against the costs of cutting emissions. Establishing the true cost of carbon emissions.

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Land-use, climate change, and policy – Opportunities to act locally while thinking globally

HumanNature

As part of an apprenticeship I participated in with the Colorado Water Conservation Board, I was asked to explore tools that enable estimates of the return on investment to the public from ecosystem services provided by different land-uses, with an emphasis on private working lands such as farms and ranches. A political view.

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New York City’s Local Law 97: REC Mechanism Lacks Additionality; Will Set Price Too Low

Law Columbia

While intended to offer a small amount of flexibility to building owners who might have trouble complying with Local Law 97’s emissions limits, with these rules they risk falling into the same traps that have ensnared other carbon pricing efforts. This echoes the experience of other carbon markets. Additionality.

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