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Climate Policy at 30: Glasgow Climate Pact.

Law and Environment

The Kyoto Protocol focused on reducing emissions and increasing contributions from wealthier nations, setting a goal of overall emissions reductions of 5 percent below 1990 by 2012. C goal identified in the Paris Agreement with greater and more specific commitments to address climate change.

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Unpacking the liability argument against loss and damage funding

Law Columbia

The topic has steadily gained traction in international climate negotiations since then, with “loss and damage” first appearing in a negotiated text at COP13 in 2007 and later forming the “third pillar” of climate action in the Paris Agreement in 2015. Ahead of COP18 in 2012, U.K. and other developed nations. In the U.S.,

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Western Wildfires are Burning Through Local and State Budgets 

Union of Concerned Scientists

According to Statista, emergency firefighting costs have increased exponentially over the last ten years in California, from $140 million in 2012 to more than $1 billion in 2021 and 2022. Wildfire suppression expenditures in California from fiscal year 2012 to fiscal year 2022, in million U.S. Source: Statista 2023.

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Just 25 mega-cities produce 52% of the world’s urban greenhouse gas emissions

Frontiers

In 2015, 170 countries worldwide adopted the Paris Agreement, with the goal limiting the average global temperature increase to 1.5°C. Following the agreement, many countries and cities proposed targets for greenhouse gas mitigation. For 30 cities, there was a clear emission decrease between 2012 and 2016.

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COP28: “The Methane COP”

Legal Planet

Until recently, few could have anticipated that methane, a GHG not even mentioned in the Paris Agreement, would be central to COP28’s most headline-grabbing announcements. When he wasn’t walking, he was talking about methane, earning him the nickname Mr. Methane.

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Climate Policy at 30: Glasgow Climate Pact

Acoel

The Kyoto Protocol focused on reducing emissions and increasing contributions from wealthier nations, setting a goal of overall emissions reductions of 5 percent below 1990 by 2012. C goal identified in the Paris Agreement with greater and more specific commitments to address climate change.

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Navigating the Intersection of Climate Change and the Law of the Sea: Exploring the ITLOS Advisory Opinion’s Substantive Content

Law Columbia

Additionally, ITLOS can also apply rules of reference , referred to as “generally recognized international rules and standards” or “global rules and standards,” which exist in other sources of law incorporated into UNCLOS by reference ( see, e.g., Articles 207-2012 UNCLOS ). 12 of the Paris Agreement , among others.