Climate Change Blawg

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Greenhouse gasses, global warming, and catastrophic climate change have been subjects of controversy for decades, and time is running out, but the UK is making impressive strides in its efforts to protect the planet. The post What Is the UK Doing to Stop Climate Change?

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Boris Johnson delivers climate change remarks at the UN General Assembly. A party and government which for years have not shown any interest in tackling the climate crisis with appropriate urgency are suddenly keen, but the party still has several MP’s airing climate-denying views. Photo credit: UN Photo / Cia Pak.

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 3, 2021

by Garth Heutel, Givi Melkadze, and Stefano Carattini (Georgia State University) In 2008, as big banks began failing across Wall Street and the housing and stock markets crashed, the nation saw how crucial financial regulation is for economic stability – and how quickly the consequences can cascade through the economy when regulators are asleep at… (..)

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HumanNature

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Candidate in the Department of Fish, Wildlife and Conservation Biology and the Graduate Degree Program in Ecology at Colorado State University Polar bears have become the global bellwether of climate change: a symbol for an impending catastrophe that will forever change the natural world as we know it.

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Global Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Recently that has changed. Electric energy generation by renewable sources has doubled since 2008. The post Electric Vehicles Combat Climate Change appeared first on Global Green. Throughout the US, coal has been the leading source of energy for electric power generation.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 30, 2023

The upshot was that the US resisted any effort to address climate change and embraced a “drill baby drill” energy policy. True, t he world was different in many ways in 2008 when Obama took office, including the energy sector. You can blame Bush. This may be a better way to see the significance of 2.8

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

By: Deborah Klenotic, Deputy Communications Director Climate change is a major challenge facing Pennsylvania, and the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is leading many efforts to fight back and protect communities. Find more materials at DEP’s Climate Change webpage.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 22, 2023

The onslaught has led to another round of media headlines and press releases from environmental and public health groups asking whether the nation is at a tipping point of urgency to fight climate change. A Vox headline on the orange skies from Canadian wildfires said, “Wildfire smoke reminded people about climate change.

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 21, 2023

It provides protection from the heat, improves mental and physical health, and it is a key tool in combating climate change. But between 2008 and 2018, Philadelphia’s urban forest shrunk by 6%. The livability of our city depends on a healthy and well cared-for urban forest.

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Law Columbia

MAY 8, 2024

Over the last few years, a unique collaboration involving the American Bar Association (ABA), the International Bar Association (IBA), the Brazilian Bar Association (OAB), and the Law Society of England and Wales (LSEW) has begun to discuss the role of lawyers in combatting climate change and share best practices. John Kerry, then U.S.

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Environmental News Bits

APRIL 5, 2022

Chicago will soon release a climate action plan — a comprehensive look at the effects of climate change in the city, and actions to address it. It will be an update to a plan Chicago released in 2008, when it became the first major city in the U.S. Read the full story from WBEZ.

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Edouard Stenger

JULY 27, 2018

Sustainable energy – without the hot air (2008). The author was an engineering professor at Cambridge and the Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change and was knighted by the Queen for his work. I hope you liked this selection of seven essential books on climate change and energy.

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Real Climate

DECEMBER 17, 2023

70) Moreover, the recent 5th National (US) Climate Assessment , NCA5, concludes in a similar vein that [HighResMIP with resolutions between 20 and 50 km from CMIP6] simulations support the conclusion of a global decrease in tropical cyclone frequency together with an increase in intensity with warming. Support for the warm-area-connection?

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Circle of Blue

MAY 2, 2023

We work together to produce news and information about the impact of climate change, pollution, and aging infrastructure on the Great Lakes and drinking water. Davenport, Iowa, is used to such floods — waters reached similar levels in 2019, 2014, and 2008. reports.

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Clean Energy Law

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Green , James Bee , and Kevin Mak On 3 December 2023, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) unveiled the Singapore-Asia Taxonomy for Sustainable Finance (Taxonomy) at the United Nations COP28 climate conference in Dubai. signing of all the financing agreements) has been made prior to December 2021.

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Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2021

Both are leading scholars in their fields, exceptional classroom educators, and leaders of public interest initiatives that are shaping climate change and environmental law and policy in California, the U.S., and jurisdictions around the world. As many of you know, our long-serving faculty co-director Prof.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 29, 2024

Dean served as the first Upper Neuse Riverkeeper for over seven years, and later became the first Yadkin Riverkeeper in 2008, where he also served as Executive Director until 2014. She also was the former Secretary of the Maryland Department of Environment where she developed substantial initiatives on climate change and the Chesapeake Bay.

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HumanNature

APRIL 28, 2022

Many argue that this is one of the most intrusive things we can do to combat climate change. Getting ready to plant a ponderosa pine seedling in a post-burn landscape As human-caused climate change continues to warm the planet, plants and animals may no longer be suited to the climate conditions where they currently grow.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 23, 2023

This blog was written with help from Emilia Belliveau, Energy Transition Program Manager As a climate activist, I’m constantly confronted with the attempts of oil and gas companies to greenwash their operations, spread misinformation through their public campaigns and actively oppose much needed climate policies.

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Columbia Climate Law

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

This blog takes a closer look at how the proposed amendments could affect ESA management decisions for species that are imperiled by climate change. In this context, new tools and approaches are needed to improve protections for species that face an existential threat due to climate change.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 14, 2022

Climate change is considered “the greatest […] market failure ” of all time – which means voluntary measures and minor modifications won’t address the core problem. Not all financial institutions are voluntarily aligning with climate goals. Consider the economic crisis of 2008-2009.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 24, 2022

In the 1960s climate change was not really a significant concern, not even amongst environmentalists – this was despite the fact that the Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius in 1896 was the first to claim that emissions from fossil fuels might eventually result in enhanced global warming. This has since changed many times.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The price of urea also surpassed its previous recorded spike in 2008 by approximately 18 percent. Data reported by the World Bank show that prices for two key fertilizers spiked dramatically between April 2021 and April 2022: diammonium phosphate prices went up 75 percent and potash prices rose a staggering 178 percent.

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Real Climate

APRIL 2, 2021

In 2008, after a series of Atlantic hurricane seasons that began earlier than normal, a study was published that explored whether the anomalously early starts may be part of a larger trend ( Kossin 2008 ). Li, "Past and Future Hurricane Intensity Change along the U.S. Kerry Emanuel and Adam Sobel also provided helpful input.

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CEQA Developments

MAY 2, 2023

Finally, in 2008, DWR approved the settlement agreement and certified the EIR. 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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CEQA Developments

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

So stay tuned on that front…) The Court of Appeal’s Opinion The gist of the case’s narrow holding reflected in the published portion of the opinion is that the EIR’s climate change analysis did not employ a methodology previously rejected for lack of substantial evidence in Center for Biological Diversity v.

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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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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Renewables are 6% of power. Renewable Energy Act sets fixed feed-in tariffs and gives renewables priority on the grid. New rates are large enough to spark expansion of renewable industry. Fifteen percent of electricity is renewable. Germany decides to phase out nuclear power, complicating efforts to decarbonize the power sector.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 21, 2023

This piece previously appeared in the EDF’s Climate 411 Blog. Disasters that are fueled by climate change, like fires, floods, and hurricanes, increasingly pose risks to the U.S. Climate Risk in the Derivatives Market As the CFTC’s Congressional mandate has grown, so have the financial risks posed by climate change.

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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. Lean, and D.H. 32, 2005.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The GCF Task Force is the world’s largest subnational government network focused on forests and climate, with 43 member states and provinces from 11 countries representing more than one-third of the world’s tropical forests.

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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.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 12, 2022

To help avoid the worst possible consequences of climate change, however, the alliance states need to reach that 100-percent objective much more quickly. In fact, the average residential rate nationally was 8 percent higher in January than it was a year earlier, the biggest annual increase since 2008.

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Vermont Law

APRIL 7, 2022

The Future is : Gender Inclusion in Climate Crisis Solutions By Beckett McGowan , Juris Doctor Candidate (VLGS '23), Staff Editor for the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law April 7, 2022 Climate Change is the great exasperator. 1) However, natural disasters are not the only thing exasperated by Climate Change.

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Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Although this is 100 million less than 10 years ago, the future of food security remains uncertain in the face of climate change. will be particularly challenging due to changing precipitation patterns, warming temperatures, and extreme weather events resulting from climate change. By Bonnie Smith. Monsanto. ,

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Legal Planet

MARCH 2, 2022

The task force was created in 2008 by California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and nine other governors from Brazil, Indonesia, and the U.S. who recognized the critical role of tropical forests in addressing climate change.

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Legal Planet

MAY 11, 2022

For full disclosure, prior to joining the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at UCLA School of Law, I worked for CARB for more than a decade, although I did not have a role in writing the draft 2022 Scoping Plan Update. This may also serve as a model for how to attract and direct smart, climate-focused finance.

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