Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 22, 2023

Climate change bullseye At dinner, the crew shared with me what they relished about grubbing. Emma Lachance Linklater “grubs” for puffin chicks on Eastern Egg Rock, Maine The data is also exponentially more critical as Project Puffin is in a bullseye of climate change.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

PennFuture celebrated 25 years of fighting climate change and industrial pollution by holding anniversary celebrations in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia to honor seven Pennsylvanians for their contributions to restoring and protecting the environment. Prior to her involvement in environmental advocacy, Ms.

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Washington Nature

APRIL 3, 2024

Although there are many efforts underway to reduce emissions as much as possible to slow climate change, due to the excess emissions we’ve already produced, we will continue to experience the impacts of our changing climate. 5th National Climate Assessment, Chapter 31: Adaptation U.S.

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Washington Nature

JULY 6, 2023

We’ve collected a number of helpful resources that go into the relationships between climate change and health, and offer ways people can prepare, adapt, and stay healthy. Visit the Climate Impacts Group page U.S. Read more below! government site offers key insights into local air quality using the Air Quality Index (AQI).

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Law Columbia

MARCH 29, 2023

Photo by Mathias Reding on Unsplash Climate change litigation has finally reached the world’s highest court. On March 29, 2023, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopted a resolution requesting an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the obligations of States with respect to climate change.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

This important gathering, known as COP28 (which stands for the ‘Conference of the Parties’), is the 28th annual United Nations climate negotiations since the establishment of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in 1995. Each year the movement to Kick Big Polluters Out of climate negotiations grows.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

Most of these pieces were about the company’s support for a seemingly independent network of anti-regulation, “free-market” nonprofits that spread falsehoods about the reality and seriousness of climate change. We do not support climate denial,” he replied. “We Rex Tillerson, ExxonMobil CEO from 2006 to 2016.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 25, 2022

The challenge originates with the Obama Administration’s 2015 Clean Power Plan , which required states to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from existing power plants by 32 percent (below 2005 levels) by 2030, in line with the national commitment under the Paris Agreement. The case is scheduled for oral argument at the end of February.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 10, 2024

In a pivotal week for environmental justice, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg, France, delivered rulings on three climate cases. The court’s ruling in this case was groundbreaking, explicitly linking climate change action with human rights protections for the first time.

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Successful Green

MARCH 15, 2021

An international team studied the... The post European summer droughts extreme since 2015 appeared first on successful GREEN. Recent summer droughts in Europe are far more severe than anything in the past 2,100 years, according to a new study. The results are reported in the journal Nature Geoscience.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 27, 2024

percent of the globe’s electricity in 2015, solar now produces 5.5 Our share of solar electricity has grown from 1 percent to 6 percent since 2015. percent in 2015 to nearly 8 percent in 2023. The shift helped the United States to drop its share of fossil fuels in the energy mix from 67 percent in 2015 to 59 percent last year.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

MAY 13, 2021

We face a serious climate change adaptation challenge. They are wrong to doubt the ability of our society to continue to flourish in the face of climate change. Climate Change Adaptation Will Offer a Sharp Test of the Claims of Behavioral Economics ," The Economists' Voice , De Gruyter, vol. Kahn, 2015. "

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Inside Climate News

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The American Physical Society’s new policy is a shift from its 2015 statement, which called the magnitude of future climate impacts “uncertain” and referred to “significant” natural sources of warming.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Climate change adaptation refers to our individual and collective ability to cope with Mother Nature’s more intense weather punches in terms of extreme heat, drought, fire, flood and many other place based risks. See this 2015 paper set in the United States. How Does a “Climate “Crisis” Emerge? Here we agree.

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HumanNature

MARCH 8, 2022

Candidate in the Department of Soil and Crop Sciences and the Graduate Degree Program in Ecology at Colorado State University If you read about climate change in the news, you’re probably familiar with the element carbon. But carbon isn’t the only element associated with climate change. 1 Wieder, W.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The Golden State has adopted a slew of climate change laws over the past twenty years, and an even greater number of regulations. 2015 SB350. Bush torpedoed climate action by the federal government early in his administration. To help you keep track, here is a timeline of California’s most important actions.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Climate change, one of the defining challenges of our time, demands multifaceted approaches to drive action and accountability. Two central players in this arena are climate litigators and United Nations (UN) climate negotiators. This is where climate litigation steps in.

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

This is our third annual report on funding trends in climate change mitigation philanthropy and covers seven years offunding data from 2015 to 2021. … Continue reading Funding trends 2022: Climate change mitigation philanthropy.

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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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Environmental and Urban Economics

JULY 11, 2021

John Cochrane has posted an important blog post about adapting to climate change. I have working on the costs of climate change for 15 years now going back to my 2005 Death Toll paper. I am a microeconomist and I said to Marty; "Many of us know that we do not know what risks climate change will pose.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 4, 2024

For researchers, this updated dataset provides an incredible opportunity to conduct litigation relevant research and explore questions of accountability—for the impacts of climate change, for the historical costs of inaction, and for industry’s decades of disinformation and delay.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 1, 2024

Beyond this year’s measurements, it’s critical to consider what our snow levels mean for water management in a warming climate, and what needs to change so we can better prepare for the future. 2015 was the first year in which measurements going back to 1942 didn’t register any snow on April 1. Photo credit: J.

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A Greener Life

JULY 30, 2021

Germany has recently experienced fatal and apocalyptic climate- fuelled floods , after which the country’s Chancellor, Angela Merkel, promised the government would do more to tackle climate change. So what should Germany do with their newfound appetite for tackling climate change? Quitting coal.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Beginning in 2015, journalists began to uncover mounting evidence of Defendants’ campaign of deception,” the complaint says. “In Nor should we forget the researchers working on attribution science who have helped connect the dots from extreme weather events to anthropogenic climate change.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 27, 2021

For nearly three decades the United Nations has been bringing together almost every country on Earth for global climate summits known as the “Conference of the Parties”. In that time climate change has gone from being a fringe issue to a global priority. C above pre-industrial levels within the next two decades.

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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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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Guest Commentary: Indonesian Human Rights Commission’s first human rights complaint on the impacts of climate change. Indonesia’s climate change context. Climate change is already causing widespread environmental impacts in Indonesia. By Margaretha Quina and Mae Manupipatpong*.

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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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Yale E360

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

It’s too early to tell how the UN climate conference in Glasgow will go. Yet as the biggest climate negotiations since the Paris Agreement in 2015 began today in Scotland, the British hosts were making strikingly downbeat assessments of its chances of achieving further progress on taming climate change.

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

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Climate Change Blawg

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Although the Trump Administration formally began to withdraw from the 2015 Paris Agreement in April 2019, federal, regional, state, and local efforts to combat global warming remain strong. And while climate change cannot be stopped completely, actions taken throughout the United States can hinder its progress.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 11, 2023

Since the Paris Agreement was signed in 2015, RBC has poured nearly $350 billion dollars into climate-destroying fossil fuel companies. The post New Campaign ‘Names and Shames’ the Key Players Who Are Blocking Action on Climate Change in Canada appeared first on Environmental Defence.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Boris Johnson delivers climate change remarks at the UN General Assembly. A party and government which for years have not shown any interest in tackling the climate crisis with appropriate urgency are suddenly keen, but the party still has several MP’s airing climate-denying views. Photo credit: UN Photo / Cia Pak.

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HumanNature

APRIL 10, 2023

But this simplified pathway misses a key step in cloud formation–and one that could help us combat climate change. The Paris Agreement is an international treaty adopted at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in 2015, with the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 °C C temperature target.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The Clean Power Plan (CPP) was the Obama Administration’s signature climate effort. This 2015 regulation aimed to move state power grids away from coal and toward renewable energy. Even without the Clean Power Plan, carbon emissions from power generators fell about 15% from the 2015 level.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 3, 2023

Climate change is shifting so much about our world, from earlier blooms on Japan’s iconic cherry blossoms to rapid loss es of glaciers and ice sheets. Climate change is drying out our forests, priming them to burn. In turn, the dryness of forests affects how readily they burn. So…what is VPD?

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CEQA Developments

MAY 2, 2022

On April 20, 2022, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District (“BAAQMD”) adopted updated CEQA thresholds of significance that it recommends for public agencies’ use in evaluating the impacts of land use projects and plans on climate change. Department of Fish & Wildlife (2015) 62 Cal.4th Land Use Projects.

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