Law Columbia
SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
The Sabin Center wrapped up Climate Week NYC last Friday with an event exploring the opportunities and challenges posed by ocean-based carbon dioxide removal (CDR). The parties subsequently, in 2010, adopted a framework for assessing research projects. The 2008 resolution and 2010 assessment framework are not legally binding.
Law Columbia
OCTOBER 20, 2023
In a blog post last month, I wrote about the growing interest in ocean-based carbon dioxide removal (CDR), and the complex legal issues it raises. In 2010, the parties adopted an assessment framework for determining whether a particular ocean fertilization project involves “legitimate scientific research,” and thus may be allowed.
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Legal Planet
JUNE 4, 2021
Now the same district court has gone further, again in favor of environmental groups but now against Royal Dutch Shell (“Shell”) , the world’s largest non-state-owned fossil fuel company. Environmental Protection Agency (2007) forced the EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. In the US, for instance, Massachusetts v.
Union of Concerned Scientists
DECEMBER 20, 2022
The US Energy Information Administration is forecasting the wholesale price of gas to reach its highest level since the winter of 2009-2010 in inflation-adjusted terms. Methane is more than 80 times as powerful at warming the planet over a 20-year time frame than carbon dioxide. .
Our Environment
MAY 21, 2021
For example, the average yearly cost of California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection’s fire suppression emergency fund from 2010 to 2019 rose to $401 million (USD). [11]. We need to make changes in the present day so we don’t leave a carbon dioxide ridden earth without forests for our future generations.
A Greener Life
NOVEMBER 29, 2022
SCC is a dollar estimate of the long-term damage caused by emitting a tonne of carbon dioxide in a given year. Michael Greenstone, a University of Chicago economist, first calculated it in 2010. The US Environmental Protection Agency has already announced its recommendation that the SCC should be raised to almost $200 per tonne.
HumanNature
MARCH 31, 2021
Figure 1: Size reference for atmospheric particles (US EPA 2016) and a general structure of freshly created black carbon. Direct Environmental Effects Did you know that black carbon is the second most important warming agent in our atmosphere behind carbon dioxide (CO 2 )? Black Carbon.” March 26, 2014.
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