Legal Planet

OCTOBER 23, 2023

If you compare California with the country as a whole, however, it does seem clear that our climate policies have had a real impact on emissions. California has done well in terms of total emission reductions – about a 10% reduction from 2009 to 2019. decrease was due to other states enacting their own climate policy, so the U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 30, 2024

Transportation is the largest sector for emissions , and passenger cars, trucks, and SUVs are the majority of transportation emissions, so there is no way to slow down climate change without a fundamental shift from petroleum to clean electricity to power our vehicles.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 8, 2025

What had once seemed an impossibility to Cameron, who moved to the coastal community in 2008 from Idaho and began working for the city in 2009, was suddenly her problem to fix: How could you have a drought and water shortages in Alaska? Some people have talked about the possibility of the wetlands drying up due to climate change.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Trading in disinformation In its climate lobbying report, ExxonMobil deemed 52 associations “aligned” for acknowledging the risks of climate change, publicly backing the Paris Agreement goal of limiting average global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius and taking steps to reduce carbon emissions.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

This is not an accident: the government poured $22 billion into the EV industry starting in 2009. Chinese government support for manufacturing of clean technologies may be partly due to concern about climate change and urban air pollution. And the cars are really cheap: $10,000 for the BYD Seagull. auto sector.”

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Energy and Climate Law

DECEMBER 8, 2020

This ruling was released in the context of a surge in climate litigation cases in France and all over world. For France, the “Affaire du Siècle” case was filed in the Administrative Court of Paris in May 2019 by four NGOs against the government for its failure to act on climate change.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

In 2020, farmers and livestock operations used 187 billion gallons of water, double the amount in 2009. They irrigate 570,000 acres, or roughly 100,000 acres more than in 2009, according to state figures. In 2020, farmers and livestock operations used 187 billion gallons of water, double the amount in 2009.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Climate change is expected to bring more intense and frequent rainfall events to the region, which will likely exacerbate untreated sewage discharged into waterways. Founded in 2009, T hree Rivers Waterkeeper is a proud member of the global Waterkeeper Alliance. . -- Elevated E. coli on nearly every sampling event.

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Inside Climate News

OCTOBER 28, 2024

By Humberto Basilio In 2009, South American deserts stretching from Peru’s parched coast to the wilds of Patagonia became a playground for the global off-road racing elite. A group of scientists looking for new ways to conduct studies that don’t harm the deserts of South America turned to motorized paragliding.

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2009 Climate Change 84

Inhabitant

OCTOBER 7, 2021

A new report released by the Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network found that up to 14% of the world's coral reefs have been depleted due to climate change between the years 2009 and 2018. In the period under review, mass coral bleaching events were experienced due to warming waters.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 22, 2024

To address these dual needs, UC Berkeley Law’s Center for Law, Energy and the Environment (CLEE) and the UCLA Law Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment are today releasing the new report Fueling & Financing: Addressing the Urgent Challenges Facing Electric Heavy-Duty Vehicle Deployment.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

A big part of that comes down to wealthy countries needing to provide financing to countries in the Global South to both take climate action as well as respond to climate disasters. This is what is known as climate finance. Back in 2009, countries set a finance goal of $100 billion.

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Fossil Fuels Paris Agreement Renewable Energy 2025 119

Legal Planet

JUNE 21, 2023

It was the site for one of the most iconic climate policy photos. In the run-up to the Copenhagen climate negotiations in 2009, President Mohamed Nasheed held a cabinet meeting in scuba gear 20 feet underwater to show what awaited the low-lying island nation of the Maldives if serious action were not taken to reduce greenhouse gases.

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Sea Level Climate Change 2009 Greenhouse 130

Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 20, 2024

If federal officials had followed the law, a Recovery Strategy would have been in place since 2009. ABOUT ECOJUSTICE ( ecojustice.ca ): Ecojustice uses the power of the law to defend nature, combat climate change, and fight for a healthy environment.

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Government Ocean 2009 Climate Change 145

Real Climate

APRIL 2, 2021

2009 ), a quiescent period of volcanic eruptions ( Mann et al. 2021 ), and changes in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC). Wu, "Tropical Cyclones and Climate Change Assessment: Part II: Projected Response to Anthropogenic Warming", Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society , vol. 778-781, 2009.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

COP29 is the deadline for the adoption of a new collective quantified goal (NCQG), to ensure wealthy countries are supporting developing nations to reduce emissions and address climate impacts. At least $1 trillion per year is required to meet the immediate climate needs of developing countries.

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Fossil Fuels Paris Agreement 2009 2025 75

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 16, 2024

New demands for electricity and the need to reduce climate-changing emissions are driving new grid planning efforts. UCS began pushing for strong planning with new rules as early as 2009. The obstacles to new technology and more effective investments need to be addressed.

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Electricity Renewable Energy Clean Energy Law 299

A Greener Life

OCTOBER 20, 2021

As the world is nearing the crucial UN climate summit COP26 , climate coverage is yet again on the up. During the three major UN climate summits in the past 12 years, Copenhagen in 2009, Paris in 2015 and now Glasgow in 2021 climate coverage and interest in the issue has accelerated in the run-up to the event.

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Paris Agreement Climate Change 2009 Politics 98

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The new one, released in January, points to new challenges from climate change, “forever chemicals” and the proliferation of mega warehouses. Between 2009 and 2021, daily withdrawals of water in the state decreased by 33%, mostly because of coal-fired power plants closing. The plan also highlights a new set of challenges.

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2009 Climate Change Natural Gas Environmental Protection 95

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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Climate Change Carbon Dioxide Wind Power 2007 52

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 26, 2023

She also held a Graduate Policy Intern position in the Governor’s Office of Policy and Planning in 2009 and an Undergraduate Policy Intern position in the Department of Public Welfare in 2006. Click Here for more details.

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Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 23, 2024

She is passionate about helping fisheries manage their way through climate change and furthering ocean conservation efforts. The black cod population that spans the coasts of the United States and Canada is currently healthy, but as the climate and ocean conditions change, their long-term future is uncertain.

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HumanNature

APRIL 10, 2023

But this simplified pathway misses a key step in cloud formation–and one that could help us combat climate change. The Paris Agreement is an international treaty adopted at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in 2015, with the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 °C 2009, February 19). 2010, November 2).

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

26 (GC26) on children’s rights and the environment with a special focus on climate change. Still, the decision holds significant implications for safeguarding children’s rights within the climate change context and set a foundation for future climate-related cases centered on children.

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Precautionary Principle Climate Change Environmental Protection 2022 124

A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

It’s been a popular refrain in the run-up to the Glasgow climate talks: this is the last chance to prevent catastrophic climate change. Science tells us that climate change is non-linear and subject to tipping points that we can’t reverse, so a sense of urgency is vital. By Jeremy Williams.

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2009 Climate Change 2015 2018 98

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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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

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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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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Regulations Government Fossil Fuels 2008 105

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 17, 2024

A report this year by the US Fish and Wildlife Service found between 2009 and 2019, the nation lost enough acreage of forest and scrub wetlands to equal the size of Rhode Island. Wetland habitat is critical for shorebirds, which are experiencing some of the fastest declines in the avian world. Photo by Derrick Z.

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Carbon Dioxide Clean Water Act Ocean 2019 299

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 18, 2023

Double Up Food Bucks started in 2009 in Michigan and has since expanded nationally. With better diets and a healthier environment, the well-being of our communities will improve, and we will avoid some of the health care and climate change costs associated with industrial food systems. million to local businesses.

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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

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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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Subsidies reached new highs in 2021, even before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a Climate Transparency analysis finds. The G20 group of nations provided nearly US$200 billion in support of fossil fuels in 2021, despite the worsening impacts of the climate crisis and their pledge in 2009 to phase out “inefficient” subsidies.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 3, 2024

Pennsylvania won the International Envirothon competition in 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1994, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2009 and 2017 and frequently places in the top 10 finishers. Now more than 15,000 high school students across the state compete in 67 county Envirothons.

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Law Columbia

JULY 1, 2022

In Duarte Agostinho , six Portuguese youth filed a complaint against 33 countries alleging that the respondents violated petitioners’ human rights by failing to take sufficient action on climate change and requested EU member countries to take more ambitious domestic action.

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Paris Agreement Climate Change Government Law 89

HumanNature

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The average electricity consumption per household in the US in 2009 was 11,320 kWh per year [3]. These things can all definitely save you money on your next utility bill and will make a bigger impact when it comes to mitigating climate change than you might think. Eia.gov 2009. [4] Energy Information Administration.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 22, 2022

We all know that to successfully address climate change we need to phase out fossil fuels and switch to electric power. Between 2009 and 2016, Ontario built over 2000 MW of solar power and about 3000 MW of wind power. Unfortunately, the current Ontario government’s plan is to burn more fossil gas to generate power. .

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