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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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 10, 2023

The fossil fuel industry is the problem, not the solution Despite their well-funded campaigns to convince us otherwise, here are five reasons why we need to be skeptical about fossil fuel industry engagement in global climate policy. Let’s start with the obvious: the burning of fossil fuels is the main driver of climate change.

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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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Edouard Stenger

JULY 27, 2018

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. Verdict: Sustainable Energy does show its age a bit, as some things have changed in the last ten years.… Reinventing Fire (2011).

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 17, 2024

The Governors’ Climate and Forests Task Force ( GCF Task Force ) engaged in the 28th Conference of the Parties ( COP28 ) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) held in Dubai, marking a pivotal moment in the global climate dialogue. Download as PDF

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Water was overlooked in past global climate talks. Advocates are focusing on the Glasgow meeting to highlight water’s indispensable climate role. Demonstrators took to the streets at the 2009 global climate convention in Copenhagen. Some have taken to calling the UN’s 26th climate convention the “adaptation convention.”.

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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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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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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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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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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. The United States needs to accelerate this momentum and ramp up renewables to much higher levels to meet climate goals. What are the main solutions? Your thoughts?

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

But it’s a political target that’s based on a reasonable assessment of science that suggests that harms from climate change are likely to get worse faster after passing 1.5 language was added at the insistence of the highly climate-vulnerable small island states, who recognized that the previous target of 2.0 In fact, the 1.5

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Having been to more than a handful of these conferences going back to Copenhagen in 2009, I am struck by a few dynamics that seem different this year. Here are four mid-COP takeaways. That work is essential and has attracted a lot of attention as an early COP success.

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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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ESA

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

An Urgent Call The Ecological Society of America (ESA) calls on world leaders attending the United Nations Climate Change Conference of Parties (COP28) in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), to pledge immediate action to reduce carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) and other greenhouse gas emissions to limit rising global temperatures initially to 2.0⁰

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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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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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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Climate privilege is the luxury of being unconcerned about climate change. For some people, the climate crisis is life and death. Climate privilege overlaps with other forms of privilege, just as vulnerability to climate change overlaps with other forms of marginalisation. By Jeremy Williams.

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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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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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Law Columbia

MARCH 23, 2023

This blog post highlights three ways in which this pioneering carbon capture and storage (CCS) operation could advance the field—through its economic aspects, climate governance, and the pertinent international legal regime. This amendment was adopted at the 2009 Conference of the Parties to the LP. It enables the provisional (i.e.,

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 11, 2022

Already an annual headache for a bird that is loyal to its nesting spot, the rearranging of rocks is now a figurative migraine as climate change from the world’s burning of fossil fuels intensifies rain, wind and crashing waves. By 2009, a record 104 pairs of puffins bred on Petit Manan, along with more than 2,500 pairs of terns.

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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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Ivy Protocol

MAY 30, 2023

Nature-based Solutions (NBS) offer a promising approach to addressing the challenges of climate change, biodiversity loss, and ecosystem degradation. mangrove forests, seagrass meadows, and salt marshes) to sequester and store carbon dioxide and mitigate the impacts of climate change (Nellemann et al.,

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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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HumanNature

MARCH 15, 2024

With increasing temperatures, global warming and climate change are only become more concerning and immediate. As a result,transitioning away from carbon-intensive sources of energy is critical to address the climate crisis (Hernandez and Newell 2022). In Climate Change and Critical Agrarian Studies (pp.

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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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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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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

At the 27 th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 27) in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, delegations are hard at work determining the contours of how nations should prepare for climate change. A key focus has been on the Global Goal on Adaptation. Article 7.1

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 12, 2021

Climate Change Is Intensifying the Water Cycle, New IPCC Report Finds – The climate crisis will jeopardize key sources of fresh water and make extreme weather events more severe. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a group of the world’s leading climate scientists, released its sixth climate assessment on Monday.

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Frontiers

MARCH 24, 2023

She is also a fellow with The George J Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions and an associate of the University of Maine Climate Change Institute. Photo credit: Karrah Kwasnik What encouraged you to work towards sustainability, more specifically on climate change issues and sustainable agriculture? “I

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 25, 2023

“Under her leadership as President and CEO, Ocean Networks Canada has become a global force in ocean data, helping us to better understand the ocean and its role in mitigating the effects of climate change, which is necessary for our survival."

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The boundaries range from climate change to the biosphere and deforestation , and from pollutants & plastic to nitrogen cycles and freshwater. We don’t know how long we can keep breaching these key boundaries before combined pressures lead to irreversible change and harm.” C planetary climate boundary.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 4, 2023

By Tej Prakash Bhardwaj Erratic regional rainfall and temperature fluctuations pose risks for the hugely popular but climatically sensitive plant. Farmers across India are reporting that climate change is adversely affecting the quality of the betel leaf. Hence, they shifted to wage labour.” First published in The Third Pole.

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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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