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The Transformation of European Climate Change Litigation: Introduction to the Blog Symposium

Law Columbia

In a transformative moment for European and global climate litigation, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled today that the state has a positive duty to adopt, and effectively implement in practice, regulations and measures capable of mitigating the existing and potentially irreversible future effects of climate change.

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It’s Time for Charles Koch to Testify About His Climate Change Disinformation Campaign

Union of Concerned Scientists

The US House Oversight and Reform Committee kicked off its investigation of the fossil fuel industry’s decades-long climate change disinformation campaign last fall by inviting top executives from BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil and Shell to testify about their role and subpoenaing their companies for internal documents.

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Weekly List Of PA Environment & Energy Articles & NewsClips By Topic

PA Environment Daily

PA Environment Digest Put Links To The Best Environment & Energy Articles and NewsClips From Last Week Here By Topic. Send articles, comments to: PaEnviroDigest@gmail.com. It gives you an in-depth view of environment and energy issues being reported by media across Pennsylvania. Are You Telling Your Story?

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Environmental Science PhD Student Publishes Children’s Book on Climate Change

Academy of Natural Sciences

One day, she asked a young girl what she knew about climate change. The child’s caretaker jumped in to say, “Oh no — we don’t talk about climate change.”. How can we talk about climate change in an accessible way for children? Climate change is something that’s scary for parents and scary for me as well.

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The ‘Year of Climate’ in International Courts

Legal Planet

The temporal and substantive proximity of these cases, across no less than four different international forums, is a reflection of the immense frustration that civil society and State actors who are the most vulnerable to the harms resulting from climate change feel with the status quo. Verein Klima Seniorinnen Schweiz and Others v.

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Sept. 7 Screening Of Hurricane Agnes 50: Life After The Flood; It Happened Before And Flooding Will Be Worse In The Future Due To Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

For starters, we know that climate change will bring more frequent and severe flooding events to Pennsylvania. Related Articles: -- DEP Invites Comments On Electric Grid Resilience Plan At Aug. Wolf: 2021 Climate Impacts Report Projects Pennsylvania Will Be 5.9° Click Here to register for this free program.

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Unforced Variations: Oct 2021

Real Climate

Fall is here (in the northern hemisphere at least), along with articles about the impact of climate change on autumnal colors. and the World Economic Forum has proposed and Earth Operations Center to monitor greenhouse gases and climate change.

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