Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 31, 2024

The fossil fuel industry has long been the main driver of climate change, but Big Oil’s CEOs and profiteers would like you to believe that it is a part of the solution. After an $ 11 million donation to the University of Saskatchewan in 2007 , the business school was named after him.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 20, 2025

Data Centers Map has been tracking data centers offering colocation, cloud services, and select crypto miners and hyperscale operators (like Amazon and Microsoft), since 2007. But climate change is set to further raise temperatures here in the Great Lakes region, as it is around the globe. Courtesy of Data Center Map.

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Legal Planet

MAY 16, 2023

As in the US, Australia’s climate policy was long a victim of a lengthy period of divided government and political upheaval. From 2007 to 2016, control of the Australian House and Senate were generally in the hands of different parties, and the two parties almost never agreed on climate issues. As in the U.S.,

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Legal Planet

JUNE 4, 2021

In recent years, The Netherlands has become the leading site of climate change litigation. Environmental Protection Agency (2007) forced the EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. Most climate-change harms will be in the future and in often-distant low-latitude countries. These lawsuits face three key barriers.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 4, 2024

In part one of this series we introduced you to the huge role that the Canadian financial sector plays in exacerbating the climate crisis. Climate change could have some very significant negative impacts on the Canadian economy, and therefore your money. In this blog, we’ll discuss how climate change poses a risk to finance.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 17, 2024

Everyone will suffer greatly from sea-level rise and climate change if policymakers cede decision-making to corporate interests. Active public policy to support the broader economic well-being is a hallmark of democracies and modern economies. FERC reforms define the concepts and inputs for developing future planning scenarios.

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Legal Planet

JULY 12, 2023

Whether climate change impacts to Montana’s environment can be measured incrementally. Whether climate impacts and effects in Montana can be attributed to Montana’s fossil fuel activities. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. They are: Whether Plaintiffs’ injuries are mischaracterized or inaccurate.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2023

They’re also hoping to circumnavigate efforts to hold them accountable for their contribution to climate change. degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and limiting the worst effects of climate change. Fighting climate disclosure, especially Scope 3 emissions The U.S. billion last week.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

In other words, the claim shows a lack of knowledge and is a well-known old argument that I commented on Realclimate.org in 2007. A common strawman argument We don’t expect to discern a clear effect of greenhouse gases on local measurements, and mixing up local and global climate is a basis for a common strawman argument.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Over a decade, from 2007-2017 , the direct costs of extreme weather events to the federal government was $350 billion. GAO noted that climate change could increase recurring costs to the federal government by roughly $12 billion to $35 billion annually by mid-century.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 1, 2022

Though the case caught fewer headlines, it, too, threatened Earth-shifting implications all its own by thrusting into question a critical EPA lever for addressing climate change. While this authority—itself rooted in a prior Supreme Court decision , the 2007 Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency.

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Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

We can explore the issues and pitfalls of this using the ‘simple model’ of the greenhouse effect we explored back in 2007. Fortunately, there are additional CERES instruments on Suomi-NPP (launched in 2011) and NOAA-20 (launched in 2017) that can be used. References. Shoumko, S. Shoumko, P. Rodriguez, and S.E. 48, 2021.

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Edouard Stenger

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

For my first article since hurricanes Harvey and Katrina, I could have written another article on how not solving climate change would cost us trillions of dollars. Local air pollution (and global climate change) ; 4. To conclude: Solving climate change has to be done if Mankind is to survive.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Last week, the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne hosted an official COP21 side event: Social Dynamics and Climate Change. The conference was commissioned by the French government to provide an interdisciplinary perspective on the social and institutional changes that will be needed to mitigate and adapt to global climate change.

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Edouard Stenger

MARCH 21, 2023

Yesterday the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published its latest report and compared our current situation to defusing a time bomb. This should be front news and urge us all to change our lives radically. When I started covering climate change on this blog in 2007, climate change was a distant threat.

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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. .

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Academy of Natural Sciences

APRIL 26, 2021

A unique photographic exploration of the impact of flooding on communities around the world due to climate events opens Saturday, May 1 at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University. Gideon Mendel: Drowning World is a stark portrayal of the human condition within the context of climate change. Courtesy of the artist.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The city of Chengdu, China in 2007. The New York Times reports this trend may become the norm as climate change worsens. Carl Ganter / Circle of Blue. Editor’s Note: . As Circle of Blue searches for fresh writers to join The Stream’s editorial team, you may notice a gap in our coverage. Read the story. Read the story.

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Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

And by the 2007 IPCC AR4 report, or in Lean and Rind (2008) ), at best, scientists had concluded that solar activity wasn’t likely to be responsible for more than 10% or so of the long term rise in global temperature.

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Real Climate

APRIL 2, 2021

Wu, "Tropical Cyclones and Climate Change Assessment: Part II: Projected Response to Anthropogenic Warming", Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society , vol. Wu, "Tropical Cyclones and Climate Change Assessment: Part I: Detection and Attribution", Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society , vol. Knutson, S.J.

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Suddenly, people were seeing these “rare” fish in big numbers, likely due to changes from warming waters. Their numbers in northern waters dropped again by 2007, but scientists are keeping an eye out to see if their populations fluctuate again. Pipefish shape is important.

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Real Climate

JULY 24, 2023

Major abrupt past climate changes are linked to AMOC instabilities, including Dansgaard-Oeschger-Events and Heinrich Events. Stommel wrote: “The system is inherently frought with possibilities for speculation about climatic change.” 2007) and later confirmed by Drijfhout et al.

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Washington Nature

JUNE 8, 2021

by Pascale Chamberland, Masters of Public Administration Candidate 2021, University of Washington Evans School of Public Policy & Governance From a massive social media campaign to plant 20 million trees to businesses planting a tree for each product sold, people seem eager to fight climate change using natural climate solutions (NCS).

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 3, 2021

A complex and arcane water banking program in the lower Colorado River basin, adopted in 2007 and later amended, was designed to incentivize water conservation, prevent waste, and boost storage in a waning Lake Mead. Climate change, along with increased water use, has resulted in the worst drought since 1964.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 25, 2024

And it’s central to solving the climate crisis and the challenges of sustainability. In this blog series, we will delve into the issue of sustainable finance, and the relationship between climate change and finance. Who is funding climate change? Why are financial institutions funding climate change?

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The fossil fuel lobby meddles with Canadian politics and inserts itself into international climate change politics and diplomacy. 636 fossil fuel lobbyists were part of official country delegations to the last United Nations climate negotiations ( UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, and Conference of Parties 27, or COP27 ).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 2, 2024

It didn’t pass the 1 percent mark on a monthly basis until 2007. But there’s also a lot we can do, and this graphic should help to help make clear that, while climate change is serious, we are mounting serious responses too. So, this spring, enjoy sunshine and the wind as heralds of the new season.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2022

L&D has a specific meaning in climate talks that may not be obvious to anyone not immersed in the process: harms caused by climate change that are not avoided by adaptation. Given any particular trajectory of realized climate change (which of course depends on how fast emissions are cut), adaptation measures (e.g.,

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 12, 2017

On November 21, 2017, the High Court of Ireland blocked a climate change case concerning construction of a new airport runway from moving forward, but made a groundbreaking decision in recognizing “a personal constitutional right to an environment” for the first time. By Dena Adler. Photo Credit: Malcolm MacLeod via Wikimedia Commons.

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Edouard Stenger

JANUARY 10, 2022

How time flies… I started this blog in January of 2007 as I was seeking work in climate and energy after graduating from my MSc in international management at Audencia. The Great Recession of 2007-2008 made it hard to get just any job and I had to capitalize on my marketing experiences to find employment.

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Edouard Stenger

MAY 24, 2017

As more and more institutions and people are divesting from fossil fuels globally, climate responsible finance is booming. Part of this revolution is the meteoritic growth of green bonds, which were started in 2007 by the World Bank and the European Investment Bank.

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Cresforum

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Decarbonizes The United States’ energy security has changed dramatically since U.S. imports peaked in 2007. Modeling Pathways to Net Zero: A Case Study on Energy Security as the U.S. As the U.S. continues to decarbonize and work towards net zero, many questions must be answered: At what pace and scale will the U.S.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 1, 2024

Take Action: Tell Enbridge shareholders that you care about climate change and want Enbridge to stop lying about the cost and climate pollution associated with gas.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

APRIL 29, 2021

The impacts of climate change are neither theoretical nor abstract. Since 2007, Gideon Mendel, a veteran photojournalist, has made 20 trips to document adverse flooding in 13 countries. They are real, they are happening now, and they will affect most people on the planet.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 7, 2023

Past DCNR roles included serving as Deputy Secretary of Conservation and Technical Services from 2007-2013, where she led the Conservation Landscape program and oversaw the grant program, which provides $30-$60 million annually for conservation and recreation throughout the Commonwealth.

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Since 2007, only 2009, 2013 and 2014 had more ice at the end of the melt season. Unless and until we get a handle on climate change, these trends are likely to continue. This past summer was relatively cool and stormy, which limited the loss of summer sea ice in the Arctic. According to the U.S. But you can help turn the tide.

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Frontiers

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Dr. Fred Fenter, chief executive editor of Frontiers, said: “From fighting climate change to disease to poverty, science saves lives. Founded in 2007, Frontiers is an award-winning open science publishing platform. What better role models to inspire future generations of scientists than Nobel Prize winners themselves.

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