Legal Planet

MAY 31, 2021

The Costs of War Project says illegal logging by US-backed warlords and wood harvesting by refugees caused more than one-third of Afghanistan’s forests to vanish between 1990 and 2007. There are increasing grounds for concern that climate change can interact with other factors to increase the changes of war.

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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

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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Edouard Stenger

AUGUST 21, 2017

While it is undeniable that we are ramping up our actions against climate change, it is hard to deny that global warming is getting scarier every week. This could increase the speed of climate change even more as this greenhouse gas is 24 times more potent than carbon dioxide.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

trillion in avoided climate change-related damages. EN: UCS’s analysis looks at various ways the United States could meet its climate targets. In 2007 , when US carbon emissions peaked, renewables—including hydropower—generated only 8 percent of US electricity. What are the main solutions? Your thoughts?

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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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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In a world with just random local fluctuations but no climate change, about half the weather stations would show a (more or less significant) warming, the other half a cooling. The real result of their statistical analysis is thus: global temperature does show climate change! It’s not hard to understand. I could go on.

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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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E2 Law Blog

JUNE 22, 2023

Department of Interior (DOI) is seeking public comments on new strategies to replace the 2007 Colorado River Interim Guidelines for Lower Basin Shortages and the Coordinated Operations for Lake Powell and Lake Mead that will expire at the end of 2026.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Since that contract expired in 2007, the Bureau and Westlands have entered into numerous successive “interim renewal” contracts. But in a modern era of climate change–making California droughts more frequent, severe and protracted–such long-term water supply contracts make no sense whatsoever.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 29, 2023

These fees and programs were established with legislation in 2007 and then were extended until 2024 with the passage of Assembly Bill 8 in 2013 (hence the name, “AB 8 fees”). It’s clear , and it has been clear for decades, that to stave off the worst impacts of climate change we must drastically reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

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Edouard Stenger

JANUARY 3, 2023

I started that blog back in 2007 when sustainability was a vague buzzword and climate change a future threat. Nowadays, sustainability is increasingly embedded in our lives and climate change is a present and imminent danger to most if not all of us. This marks the beginning of my 17th season of blogging.

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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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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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ESA

AUGUST 25, 2023

Running shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 as a chapter Lead Author for the 4th Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. In the popular press, his essay in 2007, “The 5 Stages of Climate Grief” has been widely quoted. More reading Kids Sued Montana over Climate Change and Won

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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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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 24, 2022

The impact of climate change is generally manifested in more frequent rainstorms and increased runoff which in turn is compromising trout and trout habitat, causing bank erosion, and warming the stream water.

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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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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

On February 28, DEP Interim Acting Secretary Jessica Shirley told the House Appropriations Committee funding for DEP’s Oil and Gas Regulatory Program will be in the red by Fall and an “all sectors” greenhouse gas reduction program will not be recommended to implement the PA Climate Change Action Plan. We've seen our staff decrease.

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 10, 2019

On December 28, 2018, California adopted comprehensive amendments to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines , which include a suite of provisions aimed at improving the analysis of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and climate change impacts in state environmental reviews. GHG Emissions Analysis. Section 15064.4(2)(b)

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Washington Nature

JANUARY 11, 2022

Between 2007 and 2019, Washington lost 400,000 acres of forestland to development, and the loss is on track to top a million acres by 2040. For every acre of forestland lost, it gets that much harder to maintain rural livelihoods, fight climate change, save salmon, preserve our water supply and ensure widespread access to nature.

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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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Legal Planet

JANUARY 14, 2022

Environmental and conservation groups have for a number of years attempted to convince California courts of the need to integrate climate change considerations into environmental analyses prepared under the state’s most important environmental law, the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). Download as PDF.

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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

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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CEQA Developments

MAY 2, 2023

In the late 1990s, the Department of Water Resources (“DWR”) began to prepare for the relicensing required by 2007. Climate Change-Related Dam Operation Impacts: Too Speculative With respect to climate change, the EIR had concluded that changes to dam operation that would be occasioned by climate change were too uncertain to analyze.

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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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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

As a result, the industry has reduced carbon emissions 33% since its peak in 2007 — double the rate of the wider economy… Read more →

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