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What do U.S. states do at a COP, anyway?

Legal Planet

The core of this gathering is the yearly “conference of parties” (or COP) of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and its related implementing protocols, including the Kyoto Protocol and, most recently, the Paris Agreement. federal climate action wavers or underdelivers. negotiations.

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Conflict & Climate Change: The Real Triple C

Vermont Law

You read this title and say to yourself, “There is no war in climate change!” Often the discussions on climate change center around the environmental effects. Experts do not attribute climate change as a direct cause of war, but it is a catalyst for conflict. that arose from climate change.

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Why is future sea level rise still so uncertain?

Real Climate

Three new papers in the last couple of weeks have each made separate claims about whether sea level rise from the loss of ice in West Antarctica is more or less than you might have thought last month and with more or less certainty. 2020) or Sadai et al.

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Film review: An inconvenient sequel

Edouard Stenger

I saw last week An Inconvenient Sequel by Al Gore, the sequel of 2006 hit documentary, An Inconvenient Truth. Whether in the US or around the world, rising sea levels, extreme weather events such as tornadoes, droughts and so on are increasingly unpredictable and destructive. Climate change is getting very scary these days.

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The SEC’s Final Climate Disclosure Rule: Interrogating Preemption and Coherence with Other Domestic Regimes

Law Columbia

The report must detail the company’s “climate-related financial risk,” defined as: a material risk of harm to the company’s financial outcomes related to physical and transition risks of climate change. the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (Solutions Act).

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Opinion: Protect climate refugees under international law

A Greener Life

Policymakers at COP26 must prioritise those displaced by disasters and climate change. Thirty years ago, in its 1990 assessment, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned that large-scale human migration could be the single most significant impact of climate change. metres by 2100. (In

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California Water Challenges Remain Despite Significant Precipitation in 2023

Clean Energy Law

Despite heavy precipitation over the past year, California’s drought resilience remains in question, as critical infrastructure projects face staunch opposition and climate change increases the likelihood of extreme and prolonged droughts. The Delta Conveyance Project is a proposal for a new 44.6

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