Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 4, 2024
UCS led the way with these source attribution studies that establish a direct causal link between emissions attributable to fossil fuel producing entities and: Roughly 40% of the increase in global mean surface temperature between 1880 and 2010, with more than 35% of this increase occurring in the past 50 years, well after fossil fuel companies understood (..)
Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 29, 2023
In 2015, when he took office as AG after stints in the Texas Legislature, he sued the Environmental Protection Agency for strengthening a standard for ground-level ozone, better known as smog. Between 1990 and 2016, the sea level off its 2,876-mile coast rose 6 inches , at least partly because the land is sinking.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 29, 2024
There is, in fact, substantial scientific evidence that there’s a strong link between global warming and heat waves and coastal flooding from sea-level rise,” I said. billion (in 2010 dollars) in federal tax breaks and subsidies for nearly 100 years. Renewables,” I added, “have gotten peanuts in comparison.”
Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 1, 2024
The SEC released guidance in 2010 directing public companies to disclose risks resulting from climate-related regulation, legislation, and weather, among other sources.
Legal Planet
NOVEMBER 29, 2022
During the initial negotiations of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (Convention), AOSIS proposed to set up an “International Climate Fund” to finance adaptation, and an “International Insurance Pool” as a separate entity to provide financial insurance specifically against sea level rise.
Union of Concerned Scientists
AUGUST 22, 2023
The costs of increased risks from natural hazards—wildfires, floods and sea level rise— are driving insurers away. An even bleaker picture exists in Florida , where a dozen insurance companies have abandoned homeowners.
Union of Concerned Scientists
MAY 16, 2023
found that the companies—down to 88 due to mergers—were responsible for about 55 percent of ocean acidification between 1880 and 2015. But how was Richard Heede able to calculate that, at the time, 90 companies were responsible for nearly two-thirds of the carbon emissions between 1854 and 2010? percent of total emissions.
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