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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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 10, 2024

Our study, which examined net-zero legislation and litigation in Brazil, China, Germany, and the United States, will become even more pertinent as nations grapple with implementing their commitments under the Paris Agreement from 2015 and the more recent consensus reached in Dubai.

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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

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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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. Let’s hope our political leaders in Glasgow can make that a reality.”.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Guest Commentary: The Role of Human Rights Institutions In Tackling Climate Change: A Case Study of the Philippines. Maria Antonia Tigre, Global Climate Litigation Fellow, Sabin Center for Climate Change Law. In 2015, a series of particularly violent typhoons hit the Philippines. Introduction.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 2, 2022

To begin with, the SEC proposal is consistent with existing international frameworks, which is important for addressing a global challenge such as climate change. For investors concerned about climate change, it doesn’t get more material than that! Impacts on People and Politics Not Addressed.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

I’ve just arrived in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, for the 27 th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change—the UN’s annual global climate conference, aka COP27. My UCS colleagues and I are here because global climate policy must be informed by and aligned with the latest science.

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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. C is a political target, not a scientifically determined limit. language was added at the insistence of the highly climate-vulnerable small island states, who recognized that the previous target of 2.0

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Union of Concerned Scientists

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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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The core of this gathering is the yearly “conference of parties” (or COP) of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and its related implementing protocols, including the Kyoto Protocol and, most recently, the Paris Agreement. federal climate action wavers or underdelivers. negotiations. Download as PDF.

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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.

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HumanNature

MARCH 15, 2024

With increasing temperatures, global warming and climate change are only become more concerning and immediate. As a result,transitioning away from carbon-intensive sources of energy is critical to address the climate crisis (Hernandez and Newell 2022). In Climate Change and Critical Agrarian Studies (pp.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 26, 2024

He also wants Canada’s efforts to fight climate change watered down , including the emissions cap on oil and gas pollution. Pourbaix is pushing hard to take us away from effective climate action, and getting very rich while doing it. That followed 1,500 worker layoffs in 2015, and 440 in 2016. million in 2015.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Government adopts a sector-by-sector plan to reach 2050 climate goals. The government proposes new measures to help meet the 2030 climate target, including 80% renewables by 2030. My foray into Germany climate policy left me with unanswered questions: What was the politics behind Germany’s history of climate action?

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 23, 2021

The situation in the landlocked country, which has been the centre of various geo-political battles in recent times, became severely unstable. The crisis in Afghanistan reached a new peak this month when the US officially withdrew its forces from the country.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

It’s a contentious issue fraught with political and social dynamics that have largely doomed previous attempts. (UCS) UCS’s findings are consistent with the conclusions of the Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Transmission Needs Study , which it released last October.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Solar activity provides no alternative explanation for today’s climate change Dagsvik and Moen claim that recent research indicates that variations in the sun’s magnetic field are of great importance for long-term fluctuations in solar activity. Our job is to be thorough and verify questionable results. It has taken time.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 17, 2021

It is often hard to make sense of what happens at the annual climate meetings, and easy to get cynical. For two or three weeks, climate politics gets intense worldwide news coverage. It’s pretty clear that neither the innermost nor outermost circle has yet achieved much concrete advance in dealing with climate change.

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Frontiers

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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Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

If all politics are local, but greenhouse gases find their way into the atmosphere’s international space, how can the global community act collectively on climate change? At COP21 in December, the current 196 UNFCCC parties will decide if they can sign on to this new paradigm of international climate change regulation.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 11, 2022

The IPCC Chair Hoesung Lee during the unveiling of the report: Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change. Last week, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) yet again warned us about the climate impacts hurtling toward us at breakneck speed. Photo credit: IPCC / Mark Speight.

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Energy and Climate Law

DECEMBER 8, 2020

This ruling was released in the context of a surge in climate litigation cases in France and all over world. For France, the “Affaire du Siècle” case was filed in the Administrative Court of Paris in May 2019 by four NGOs against the government for its failure to act on climate change.

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Environmental Europe

JANUARY 26, 2017

As one previous post on this blog detailed, the current political turmoil in Northern Ireland was sparked by a subsidy for renewable energy production. Though it is tempting to blame political carelessness, the ongoing RHI scandal prompts a broader reflection about renewable energy policy instruments. data: SOeS ). speculative ones.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 20, 2023

They combined their expertise in climate science, science history, and document analysis to create a perfect blend of scientific analysis and socially relevant research. degrees Fahrenheit) above preindustrial levels that a carbon budget of 251 to 716 gigatonnes of carbon between 2015 and 2100 would be the limit.

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Environmental Europe

DECEMBER 6, 2019

The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 25) is currently underway. The success of the Paris Agreement depends on the effective monitoring of climate policy measures. Political scientists at TU Darmstadt explain in a new study what it takes to achieve this.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 17, 2023

It has persisted for more than a century, despite known inequities and increasing inadequacies in the face of climate change. It persists because powerful actors benefit from the current system and its haphazard enforcement, and they vehemently resist any proposed changes. They can be convincing.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 14, 2022

How climate change and human activity are driving violence between farming and pastoralist communities. Climate change and human activity are driving desertification, a form of land degradation which leads to vegetation loss and fewer water sources. . By Kunle Adebajo and Murtala Abdullahi, CCIJ — April 14, 2022.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 6, 2023

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. Another unmistakable result of water scarcity is the changing design of Southwest’s planned communities. One example is Sterling Ranch near Littleton, Colorado.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Kingdom of Belgium & Others is a climate lawsuit brought in Belgium in 2015 modelled on the famous Dutch Urgenda case. In this groundbreaking judicial procedure, plaintiffs argued that Belgian public authorities have undertaken insufficient climate action and called for its enhancement. VZW Klimaatzaak v.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 18, 2021

He added: “Moreover – as the climate warms – pastures, crops and livestock all require more water for their survival, just at the time when water is becoming scarcer.”. Climate change also means precipitation is more variable from year to year. There will be more years of drought, with some years of heavier precipitation.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 11, 2022

By Jeff Mulhollem, Penn State News Amid the frequent bad news about climate change, some potentially good news has emerged: Existing technologies, diligently applied, could enable the world to meet the target set for reducing agricultural methane emissions by 2030. degrees Fahrenheit. degrees Fahrenheit. The work is funded by the U.S.

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Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

The Top 10 Environmental Watch List is not about politics on its face, but as any 1L taking Constitutional Law can tell you, law and politics are fruit of the same tree. But Earth is indifferent to political shifts or election timelines, and climate change is teetering at its catastrophic tipping point.

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Environmental Europe

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Otherwise national pledges to address climate change in the spirit of the 2015 Paris Agreement will not build sufficient global trust. The 2015 Paris Agreement marked a shift towards countries making emission reduction pledges known as Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and a new Transparency Framework (Article 13).

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 23, 2021

2021 was a significant year for climate litigation, with several decisions worldwide providing a fresh look at stakeholder responsibility for climate change. In France, a landmark decision ordered the government to increase climate action in order to implement its international commitments. By Maria Antonia Tigre.

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