Legal Planet
JUNE 21, 2023
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. It was the site for one of the most iconic climate policy photos.
Our Environment
MAY 21, 2021
Rising sea levels and increased intensity of storm surges are playing a considerable role in the degradation of coastal regions in the Pacific Islands. Illustrating the variation in sea levels from 1993 – 2018. Ideally, the best way to save these islands is to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions. should be.
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Legal Planet
FEBRUARY 14, 2024
C, stated at the 2009 COP in Copenhagen and adopted one year later – which was also a non-binding goal – would leave many of them inundated by sea level rise. In fact, the 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 or even 0.2
A Greener Life
NOVEMBER 30, 2023
One of the great failures of climate finance has been that of developed countries to furnish the USD 100 billion per year by 2020 that they promised to developing countries back in 2009 to support climate action. Fossil fuels alone – coal, oil and gas – account for over 75% of global greenhouse gas emissions.
Ocean Conservancy
DECEMBER 10, 2021
Climate change is here and is bringing with it impacts like ocean acidification, sea level rise and dwindling sea ice. The call-to-action for COP26 couldn’t be clearer: We must act now to reduce greenhouse gas emissions if we want to save the ocean, planet and even the people we love. Time is running out.
Columbia Climate Law
SEPTEMBER 19, 2018
This provision may prove very important for the conservation of species imperiled by climate change, insofar as their key habitat will likely shift due to changes in temperature, precipitation, sea level rise, and other climate-related phenomena. through greenhouse gas emissions or changes in carbon sequestration).
Edouard Stenger
JULY 27, 2018
For example nuclear energy has become uneconomic if not exhorbitant and clean coal is still not a reality (although this might change ). – Factor Five (2009). Author Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker contends that our economies could use five times less energy and still achieve the same levels of comfort.
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