Union of Concerned Scientists
JUNE 6, 2023
Human-caused climate change is redistributing species across the globe, re-ordering ecological communities, and even driving genetic changes in some populations. We need to better understand these changes, and to adapt biodiversity conservation strategies to take them into consideration. Photo: UNESCO/David G.
Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 4, 2024
For researchers, this updated dataset provides an incredible opportunity to conduct litigation relevant research and explore questions of accountability—for the impacts of climate change, for the historical costs of inaction, and for industry’s decades of disinformation and delay.
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Legal Planet
JUNE 13, 2022
It was only in 2010 that India agreed that all countries should take responsibility for controlling their own emissions, but there was backsliding the following year at the next round of international negotiations. It’s also relevant that India is extremely vulnerable to climate change due to its reliance on monsoons.
Legal Planet
NOVEMBER 29, 2022
The 27 th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP27) in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, ended last Sunday, November 20, 1.5 Climate change related harms that are not avoided by adaptation are referred to as loss and damage. She writes here in her personal capacity. .
Circle of Blue
AUGUST 22, 2022
Despite promising adaptation strategies, sea level rise is projected to drown tens of thousands of acres of farmland within the century. Atlantic sea levels are rising three to four times faster than the global ocean average. Saltwater intrusion on Chalmers’ rice paddies is forcing him to look for land elsewhere.
National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)
JANUARY 17, 2024
from Chapter 4 of the Fifth National Climate Assessment The Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5) was released on November 14, 2023. As those paying attention to agriculture know, climate impacts have become increasingly apparent since the last assessment was published in 2018.
Legal Planet
JUNE 4, 2021
In recent years, The Netherlands has become the leading site of climate change litigation. Most climate-change harms will be in the future and in often-distant low-latitude countries. Shell also explicitly recognizes that CO 2 emissions must be reduced in order to prevent dangerous climate change. (In
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