Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Climate change has made rainfall in the Sahel more variable, straining Cameroon’s agriculture industry and sparking ethnic tensions. Boats on the shore of Lake Chad in 2014. Boris Cheshirkov, a UN Refugee Agency spokesperson, called the situation an example of conflict driven by climate change.

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Legal Planet

MAY 31, 2021

General Secretary said in 2014: “The environment has long been a silent casualty of war and armed conflict. There are increasing grounds for concern that climate change can interact with other factors to increase the changes of war. That does not mean that climate change will inevitably produce more war.

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HumanNature

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Guest Post by Philip Cafaro , Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Colorado State University Scientists and climate ethicists argue that more attention needs to be given to population growth’s role in the climate crisis. 3 from IPCC, Fifth Assessment Report, Mitigation Report, Summary for Policymakers (2014).

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Note: On September 26, 2019, the Vanuatu Permanent Mission to the United Nations hosted a workshop on seeking an advisory opinion on climate change from the International Court of Justice. They are elected to nine-year terms by the General Assembly and the Security Council upon the nomination of their home governments.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Carbon capture prolongs our dependence on oil and gas at a time when preventing catastrophic climate change requires winding down fossil fuel production and use. This is the reason over 400 of Canada’s leading energy experts warned the government against providing subsidies for CCS. The few that do tend to vastly underperform.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 11, 2023

This disaster should serve as a sobering reminder that policymakers and the agriculture industry need to do more to adapt to our changing climate. For three full days in 2014 , nearly half a million people were told their tap water was unsafe to drink, bathe in, or even touch. A new Dust Bowl? The answer?

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Legal Planet

MAY 30, 2022

General Secretary said in 2014: “The environment has long been a silent casualty of war and armed conflict. The Ukrainian government says that it intends to seek compensation based on the Gulf War precedent. That does not mean that climate change will inevitably produce more war.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Data on the major carbon producers’ emissions have been published since 2014. When thinking about global emissions, don’t picture an individual—point your finger at powerful corporations, specifically the 88 companies that are largely responsible for climate change. The database is transparent and available for all to see.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 7, 2024

The Alberta government has allowed 1.4 Since 2014, the AER has only collected 71 cents from oil sands companies to pay for cleanup. The Alberta government must be cautious not to overreach its jurisdiction. Until there is a solution and clean up underway, there must be a moratorium on tailings production.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 7, 2024

For Canada’s major oil and gas producers, Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is a get-out-of-jail-free card, which allows them to keep on polluting while appearing as though they are taking the threat of climate change seriously. The Carbon Capture Facility at the Boundary Dam Power Plant in Saskatchewan went into service in 2014.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 18, 2023

The federal government has the power to give people more and better choices about what we eat, and this year presents an excellent opportunity for positive change. An evaluation from 2014 (the only one I could find) found that LAMP served 19,423 producers, and programs with a goal of direct market development served 3.5

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Legal Planet

MARCH 10, 2022

Another point relates to the pace of global change and of our ability to adapt: Compared with its prior report in 2014, the 2022 report concludes that “levels of risk for all Reasons for Concern (RFC) are assessed to become high to very high at lower global warming levels” than previous expected.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 26, 2023

On March 9, 2023, the Japanese Supreme Court refused to hear the first climate change litigation brought before it without specifying substantive reasons. The Plaintiffs in the Kobe Civil Case claimed a violation of personal rights to life, bodily integrity and health on account of climate change.

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Law Columbia

MAY 31, 2024

The January 2023 decision focused on 2 distinctive issues which are explored in this blog: (1) application of the Guideline and (2) the plaintiffs’ standing claims based on specific climate change impacts on fishing as a livelihood. In reality, however, the eight old coal-fired power plants had been shut down since 2014.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 30, 2023

In August, the oil and gas industry had 64 lobby meetings with the federal government, with the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) being the most active fossil fuel lobbyist once again. It lobbied the government 10 times in August and 65 times throughout 2023 so far. So, how much is CAPP spending to promote its agenda?

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 18, 2021

A new report out of the UK calls on the government to improve the country’s climate adaptation plan. Adaptation remains the Cinderella of climate change, still sitting in rags by the stove: under-resourced, underfunded and often ignored.” – Baroness Brown, the chair of the UK’s climate change committee.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 30, 2023

Previously, I was a Senior Climate Scientist, and as such I was part of an effort to address unregulated groundwater mining in California through the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (or SGMA). At the time, UCS was laser focused on ensuring that the act included requirements to consider climate change in the planning process.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 7, 2022

OTTAWA | TRADITIONAL, UNCEDED TERRITORY OF THE ALGONQUIN ANISHNAABEG PEOPLE – More than 5,000 people and a coalition of conservation groups are calling on the federal government to finally take action after waiting over six years to protect monarch butterflies. Jode Roberts, Senior Strategist, rewilding communities, David Suzuki Foundation.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 18, 2021

The federal government acknowledged the changing conditions on Monday, declaring a Tier 1 shortage for the lower Colorado River basin. One strategy the Kurdish Regional Government has employed to combat Iran’s dam building is building dams of their own. Shrinking Reservoirs Trigger Deeper Cuts for Lower Colorado River.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 26, 2024

Developing the Pathways Alliance project is currently projected to cost over $16 billion dollars , and Pathways Alliance CEOs like Pourbaix are insisting that governments should cover most of it – even as these companies are making record profits. Both were eventually rejected by governments. Sometimes the industry tells on itself.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 1, 2024

The motion asks the company to produce a report examining how Enbridge’s governance systems are functioning. The motion asks the company to produce a report examining how Enbridge’s governance systems are functioning. A very reasonable request, we thought. Enbridge, in response, urged its shareholders to vote against the motion.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

JULY 30, 2021

These rare storms are expected to become more frequent with climate change as a warmer atmosphere can hold (and during storms release!) While increased infrastructure flooding is a major concern in urban areas, riverine and coastal flooding are also exacerbated by development and likely to be amplified by climate change.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Those eligible to apply include nonprofit organizations and government agencies. Those eligible to apply include nonprofit organizations and government agencies. Eligible applicants are encouraged to partner across the food and healthcare system. Apply here ; additional details are here. NIFA announced approximately $36.3

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 3, 2024

He will also discuss the NETL’s Direct Air Capture Center on its Pittsburgh campus, a recent initiative by the federal government to support the development of carbon capture. He spent 12 years as a carbon capture researcher at the NETL before leaving in 2014 for entrepreneurial ventures. Dr. Luebke holds a Ph.D.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 30, 2023

We work together to produce news and information about the impact of climate change, pollution, and aging infrastructure on the Great Lakes and drinking water. The EPA has identified “principal recipients” of grant funds to include nonprofit organizations, tribes, local governments, and universities. Find all the work here.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 27, 2023

One is Alex Pourbaix is the CEO of Cenovus, one of the biggest oil sands producers, who is regularly in the media talking about energy and climate change politics. Every government dollar spent on CCUS is a dollar that doesn’t go to reliable solutions. By 2021, the oil and gas industry employed 25,788 fewer workers than in 2014.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Government regulators expect that the chemical distribution problem will be short-lived. In India, a government program is bringing running water to more homes in areas of high-poverty. In an unprecedented joint statement, over 200 medical journals have warned that the largest threat to global public health is climate change.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 6, 2023

Persistent dry conditions are driving up the cost of water and prompting more resistance from government and citizens to new development. The source of concern, confrontation, and new practices is the deep drought that has settled on the Southwest since 2000 that is exacerbated by climate change.

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HumanNature

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

When I was growing up, climate change wouldn’t have qualified as a typical topic of conversation around the dinner table, let alone soil health or the ability of soils to store carbon. billion USD to support the USDA’s efforts to mitigate climate change via agricultural soils. Not so in the modern day, however.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

APRIL 29, 2021

I have repaired my own home and my truck, but it was a financial disaster for me, and I got no help from the government.”. Singh, Jawahar Nagar Srinagar Kashmir, India, October 2014 @Gideon Mendel. The impacts of climate change are neither theoretical nor abstract.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 12, 2021

Climate Change Is Intensifying the Water Cycle, New IPCC Report Finds – The climate crisis will jeopardize key sources of fresh water and make extreme weather events more severe. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a group of the world’s leading climate scientists, released its sixth climate assessment on Monday.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 19, 2023

Back in 2018, California legislators were considering a bill that would have created an independent governance structure for California’s grid operator , the California Independent System Operator (CAISO). Western utilities may be more interested in sticking with California and joining EDAM if CAISO has an independent governance structure.

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Ocean Conservancy

APRIL 29, 2022

Earlier this month, ocean leaders from governments, businesses and expert organizations around the world gathered for the seventh annual Our Ocean Conference in the island nation of Palau. billion were made, bringing the total to more than 1,800 total commitments worth approximately $108 billion since 2014.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Agricultural methane policies, where they exist, tend to take predominantly three forms: regulation , cap – and – trade programs , and government incentive programs. Finally, governments can implement direct incentive programs which fund or otherwise facilitate the implementation of agricultural methane reduction measures.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 7, 2021

One is climate change. Undark reports that state and local governments are often unprepared for flooding and don’t recognize the risk posed by dams that are near toxic waste sites, leaving communities vulnerable to disaster and environmental contamination. trillion in economic activity, according to a study in 2014.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

By Rejimon Kuttappan Along with a major expansion of renewable energy, India is also pushing for big increases in its coal production, casting doubt on its climate commitments. On the same day at COP28, the Indian government submitted its third “National Communication” to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Second, because most development is approved at the local level in California, any response either requires state intervention into local land-use regulation (always politically controversial) or alternatively getting local governments to address the problem themselves, no small task in a state with hundreds of cities and counties.

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