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Oil Companies Plan to Take the Road Already Traveled

Union of Concerned Scientists

They’re also hoping to circumnavigate efforts to hold them accountable for their contribution to climate change. Of course, the earth’s climate doesn’t care if emissions are less “intense” relative to another company or production chain. Fighting climate disclosure, especially Scope 3 emissions The U.S.

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A distraction due to errors, misunderstanding and misguided Norwegian statistics

Real Climate

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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Sustainable Finance 101: The Impact of Climate Change on Your Money

Enviromental Defense

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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Guest Contributor Veronika Bagi: Loss and Damage Finance Now! Or Not?

Legal Planet

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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Unpacking the liability argument against loss and damage funding

Law Columbia

Loss and damage, the term for the detrimental impacts of climate change that cannot be addressed through mitigation or adaptation, will be a central point of discussion at COP27. Despite pointing to the potential for liability as a reason not to provide loss and damage funding under an international agreement, the U.S.

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Guest Commentary: The Meaning of “Fair Share” in Climate Ambition Litigation under the Paris Agreement

Law Columbia

On June 15, 2022, the Municipal Court of Prague sided with a Czech climate NGO in Klimatická žaloba ČR v. Czech Republic , ordering the Czech government to create a more ambitious emissions reduction plan based on its obligations under the Paris Agreement ( Press Release of Czech Climate Litigation ).

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Social Dynamics and Climate Change

Law Columbia

Last week, the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne hosted an official COP21 side event: Social Dynamics and Climate Change. Michael Burger , Executive Director, spoke on a panel that was dedicated to the topic of “climate justice” and the role of courts in the pursuit of such justice. climate change litigation chart.