2010 Carbon Emissions Fossil Fuels Sea Level 
Legal Planet
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
Yet Indonesia’s role in cutting energy emissions is crucial. As an archipelago, Indonesia is at the prey of sea level rise. Jakarta, a city of ten million, is only two feet above sea level. Over three-fourths of Indonesia electricity comes from fossil fuels: 60% from coal and 16% from gas.
Legal Planet
JUNE 13, 2022
That’s understandable in terms of India’s current carbon emissions, which are now only a quarter of China’s. But given the growth of the economy, carbon emissions were projected to continuing growing steadily through 2030. Mumbai is on a peninsula and faces severe risks from sea level rise.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
MAY 16, 2023
percent of total emissions. They found that 48 percent of the increase in the region’s fire-friendly conditions since 1901—specifically drier land and vegetation—can be traced to the 88 companies’ carbon emissions. Ekwurzel was joined by Heede, then-UCS climate scientist Peter Frumhoff , and four other scientists.
Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 29, 2024
In my retelling of the show, I quickly pointed out that the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change had by then concluded that “most” of the increase in average global temperatures since 1950 was “very likely” due to the increase in human-made carbon emissions. Renewables,” I added, “have gotten peanuts in comparison.” His reply
Columbia Climate Law
MAY 8, 2020
The plaintiffs alleged among other things that the defendants the two projects’ cumulative impacts on carbon emissions. A climate change-related argument rejected by the trial court—that sea level rise projections in the Plan were too high and not based on best available science—did not appear to have been before the appellate court.
Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 29, 2023
Attorneys general (AGs) in the five states most vulnerable to climate change, however, are doing the exact opposite: Instead of defending their constituents, they are defending the fossil fuel industry. Here’s a roundup of what these AGs have been doing to make a bad situation worse.
Law Columbia
FEBRUARY 10, 2020
Ninth Circuit Heard Oral Argument in California Local Government Cases; Fossil Fuel Companies Said Juliana Decision Supported Their Position. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments on February 5, 2020 in the appeals in California local governments’ climate change cases against fossil fuel companies.
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