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Lisa Baiton: Big Oil’s Climate Misinformation Maestro

Enviromental Defense

The fossil fuel lobby meddles with Canadian politics and inserts itself into international climate change politics and diplomacy. political and public support) for fossil fuels, but we can tell our elected officials not to fall for CAPP’s pro-oil propaganda and to instead prioritize climate action.

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Brazil Advances in Climate Change Litigation

Legal Planet

A new wave of cases differs from traditional environmental lawsuits by highlighting the connections between preserving the Amazon and the climate, the grave risk of greenhouse gas emissions caused by deforestation, and the critical role of the forest as a major global carbon sink. The timing of these climate disputes is not accidental.

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Acts of Pessimistic Hope for the Anthropocene

HumanNature

Candidate in the Department of Political Science at Colorado State University What do a crack on Glen Canyon Dam and a Van Gogh painting covered in tomato soup have in common? 7] While despair, pessimism, and grief are often associated with political apathy, [8] pessimistic hope can inspire bold activism and provide an outlet for grief.

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New California Legislation Would Be a Major Step Forward for Climate Disclosure

Law Columbia

A second bill would require annual reporting of the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions caused by a covered firm’s operations. Corporate and securities law – as well as companies and their leaders acting through lobbying and politics – also have major roles to play. [9] 24] SB 253 does not require materiality.

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Future costs of emissions three times higher than assumed finds study

A Greener Life

The complexity of the calculation, the range of assumptions that need to be made and the modelling used mean the SCC is open to many interpretations, and political gridlock. The US government is still using the 3% discount rate it calculated in 2003 based on older data on real market interest rates, which used to be much higher).

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Late 2018 — Bits and Pieces

Smith Enviorment

Also elephants, giraffes, rhinos (of the non-political variety), Cape buffalo, baboons, uninvited monkeys at lunch, hippos, wildebeests, hyenas, warthogs and an unexpected (to me) penguin colony. Reduce energy use per square foot in state-owned buildings by 40% from 2002-2003 levels. Leopard: Thornybush Game Preserve (photo G.Whaley).

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The SEC’s Final Climate Disclosure Rule Must Respond to Emerging Legal Risks

Law Columbia

Nebraska , the Court relied on the MQD to determine that the Biden Administration could not forgive $430 billion of federal student loan debt under a 2003 Act that had not been the basis for such a sweeping program before. And in the Fifth Circuit’s Texas v.