Greenbuilding Law

JUNE 18, 2023

A first ever trial on constitutional protections from climate change is underway in Montana. Of note, there are state constitution based climate change lawsuits against state governments pending in early stages of pleading in Hawaii , Utah , and Virginia. Supreme decisions?), Will it be effective?

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 11, 2024

But the extraordinary findings by the European Union’s (EU) Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), unveiled this week, were more significant than perhaps many expected. target, which all countries agreed to in 2015, had been breached on nearly half of the days in 2023. The data demonstrated that on average 2023 was a whole 1.48

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Law Columbia

MAY 1, 2024

Discussion of state action regarding climate change, including in the Paris Agreement, often focuses on industrial and agricultural production within each state. Embedded Emissions and International Trade Production is a crucial source of anthropogenic GHGs. Two types of issues may arise with respect to embedded emissions.

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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. By railing against what he calls a “radical climate change movement” and suing the federal government to protect corporate polluters.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 20, 2023

Two seasons in one The presidential primary season coincides with “ Danger Season ”—the period between May and October when the Northern Hemisphere experiences back-to-back extreme weather augmented by climate change. Candidates are crisscrossing New Hampshire amid climate-related and climate-boosted catastrophes.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 16, 2023

But another major culprit is climate change, which has intensified the heat and drought that have always been factors in western North America. That climate change obviously didn’t just happen on its own. As a result, he was able to nail down the magnitude of what has been going into the atmosphere and its origin.

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HumanNature

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Land-Use and Climate Change Growing urban populations are accelerating land-use change (LUC) around the globe, as witnessed in the Front Range of Colorado 1–3. In recent history, we have witnessed LUC exacerbating climate change due to disturbed soils, development of greenhouse gas (GHG) producing land uses, and more 4.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

This is according to data from the European Union’s climate change monitoring satellite Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) which was released on Thursday (8th of February 2024). degrees C above pre-industrial. 2023 was already the warmest year ever recorded, based on data since records began, dating back to 1850.

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JANUARY 27, 2023

Climate change is accelerating at an unprecedented rate. In order to avoid the risks brought about by climate change, we must control greenhouse gases (GHGs) from being released into the atmosphere and boost the means of sequestering them.

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APRIL 14, 2022

trillion infrastructure bill signed by President Biden last November, nearly every Republican in the Senate voted against establishing a reserve fund to address the crisis of climate change. The bank says that every dollar invested in climate resilient infrastructure could provide a $4 benefit, resulting in a net total benefit of $4.2

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NOVEMBER 11, 2023

are used all over the world, based on calculations that quantify the effects of physical mechanisms and the way different parts of the atmosphere are connected to each other. The physics-based models describe how energy flows through the atmosphere and ocean, as well as how the forces from different air masses push against each other.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2022

of the observed rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide and 52 percent of the rise in global average temperatures between 1880 and 2015. 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.

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Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

2015 ; Connolly et al, 2021 ). And also, let’s be clear, this mysteriously justified temperature series has been created explicitly to demonstrate a connection to the HS93 solar reconstruction – that was the case in the Soon et al (2015) paper, the Connolloy et al (2021) paper and now in this new Soon et al paper.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Together, the story they tell is of a world that seems hell-bent on heedlessly careening toward climate disaster, even as the necessary and beneficial solutions are within our reach. These crucial goals can help accelerate the world’s transition to clean energy and turn down fossil fuels that are driving climate change.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 22, 2023

Energy choices are key to climate resilience—but there’s resistance within state government Science tells us the extent and degree of future flooding depends on how fast we can reduce heat trapping emissions from the burning of fossil fuels. Sticking with the property insurance sector, the markets are speaking.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 19, 2022

Outside of bird protection acts of the early 20 th century, protections for water, air and the atmosphere are a late 20 th -century development, created in the wake of Rachel Carson’s 1962 treatise on pesticides, Silent Spring. Climate Change on the Docket. The Court is expected soon to render its judgment in West Virginia v.

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The Energy Law Blog

JANUARY 15, 2020

Since the initiation of climate change litigation several years ago, various state governments and interest groups have filed lawsuits against fossil fuel companies and governing authorities. Below we take a closer look at each category of lawsuits and provide an update on where they stand today. People by James v. Exxon Mobil Corp. ,

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Just months before the crucial COP26 climate summit begins, the UN has issued a stark warning that we are far off the speed needed to tackle the climate crisis. The targets agreed to during the landmark COP21 summit in Paris in 2015 of limiting temperature rises to 1.5 Not going in the right direction.

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Real Climate

DECEMBER 17, 2022

Also compare the temperature change directly at the Greenland coast, where the meltwater enters, in the image above. Finally, some have suggested that the cold blob south of Greenland has been caused by increased heat loss to the atmosphere. Nature Climate Change, 5, 475–480, doi:10.1038/nclimate2554. Rahmstorf, S.,

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Vermont Law

AUGUST 31, 2015

Summary: In his May encyclical, Pope Francis called for swift global action on climate change. On May 24, 2015 Pope Francis used his. as a vehicle to call for a sweeping transformation of politics, economics, and lifestyles to tackle environmental degradation and climate change. By Ashton Roberts. encyclical.

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HumanNature

APRIL 14, 2022

Alarmingly, a drought in 2012 cost the agricultural industry $30 billion (Rippey 2015). But one of the main reasons that drought is getting worse over time is simply climate change. Losses of water from the soil and plants will lead to immediate losses of moisture to the atmosphere. Climate change 2014.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 24, 2022

In the 1960s climate change was not really a significant concern, not even amongst environmentalists – this was despite the fact that the Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius in 1896 was the first to claim that emissions from fossil fuels might eventually result in enhanced global warming. This has since changed many times.

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AUGUST 12, 2021

A relentless interval of hot, dry weather, made worse by heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere, has turned this section of the state into a cauldron of flame, dust, and smoke. 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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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

degrees Fahrenheit) is a target to limit global-average heating that was adopted by nations in the 2015 Paris Agreement. But it’s a political target that’s based on a reasonable assessment of science that suggests that harms from climate change are likely to get worse faster after passing 1.5 Q: What exactly is the 1.5

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Countries across Africa could lose 14% of their per capita GDP to climate change by 2050 and 34% by 2100, even if average global warming is held to 1.5°C, C, according to a report released this morning at this year’s UN climate conference, COP 27 , in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. Photo credit: Anouk Delafortrie / Twitter.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2022

However, during half that time, from 2015-2021, the direct costs to federal government for disasters was $315 billion. GAO noted that climate change could increase recurring costs to the federal government by roughly $12 billion to $35 billion annually by mid-century.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Testimony before the House Agriculture Committee for a Hearing on “Climate Change and the U.S. Technological change and agricultural modernization will significantly outweigh climate change in the U.S. Technological change and agricultural modernization will significantly outweigh climate change in the U.S.

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OCTOBER 26, 2022

The suit claims that BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil, Shell, and the American Petroleum Institute misled the public despite clear knowledge that their products cause climate change. For more than 50 years , the fossil fuel industry has obstructed meaningful climate action. at UMass Amherst.

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APRIL 2, 2021

The difference is due largely to the differences in the regional atmospheric response that occurs in concert with the SST warming. In particular, they don’t just respond to SST changes, but also how the atmosphere changes as the SSTs change. 2015 ) are not clearly supported. Zhang et al. Klotzbach et al.

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MAY 12, 2021

Meanwhile, note that the factors listed above involve the whole Earth system: the oceans, the cryosphere, the atmosphere, the solid earth and lithosphere, and a full range of scales, from the city block and shoreline, to ice dynamics that change over kilometers, to GRD footprints, to the whole global ocean. Back in 2015, Pollard et al.

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MAY 31, 2023

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) forecast , released on May 25, calls for similar numbers: 12 to 17 total named storms, of which 5 to 9 could become hurricanes, with 1 to 4 being major. 2022 fortunately kept to the lower end of the forecast range with 14 named storms, eight hurricanes, and two major hurricanes.

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A Greener Life

MAY 9, 2022

Cutting-edge models predict that El Niño frequency will increase within 2 decades because of climate change, regardless of emissions mitigation efforts. The El Niño–Southern Oscillation ( ENSO ) is one of the most significant, but variable, climate patterns in the world. Photo credit: ©EU/ECHO/J. By Rachel Fritts.

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AUGUST 12, 2021

Let’s dive into each piece of this puzzle to understand what has changed between SR1.5 C warming estimate between 1850-1900 and 2006-2015. Nature Climate Change. In: Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis. IPCC (2014) Climate Change 2014: Synthesis Report. Warming to date – SR1.5

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MAY 13, 2024

I moved to Merced in 2015 to study for my PhD, and I found a place I could call home. Ozone plays a dual role in our atmosphere. Climatically and meteorologically, California has temperature inversions, where a layer of warm air traps cooler air near the ground, preventing pollutants from dispersing into the atmosphere.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Researchers including those from Imperial College London and University of Exeter assess factors controlling global temperatures post ‘net zero’ and offer a pioneering framework for better estimating climate change risks. These risks must inform climate mitigation and adaptation policies to protect future generations.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 21, 2022

But we have moved the goalposts significantly from the Paris Agreement in 2015 when we were then on course for 3.5 It would be a mistake to assume that the full and final solution to the climate crisis should only be found at the UN climate talks. degrees C of warming. A guide to the direction of travel.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2022

L&D has a specific meaning in climate talks that may not be obvious to anyone not immersed in the process: harms caused by climate change that are not avoided by adaptation. Given any particular trajectory of realized climate change (which of course depends on how fast emissions are cut), adaptation measures (e.g.,

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