Physics World

OCTOBER 21, 2021

It might sound impossible to explain something as complex as the mechanisms of climate change both simply and accurately. But this is exactly what David Nelles and Christian Serrer – students at the University of Friedrichshafen, Germany – have achieved with their book Small Gases, Big Effect: This is Climate Change.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 15, 2024

Since starting with Environmental Defence in January, I’ve been grappling with an updated version of those song lyrics: “Why we must talk about climate change when everything is burning?” Given the human cost of climate change, you might think that talking about it while it is ravishing our nation would be easy.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Worse still, the law strips energy planning of its focus on addressing climate change and greenhouse gas reductions and sidelines the critical role of energy conservation.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2024

A claims settlement process in the 1970s jump-started discussions that resulted in the Whanganui River Claims Settlement Act 2017. The impacts of climate change and loss of biodiversity are getting worse. Disputes with the English over management of the river system date from the very first colonial settlements in 1840.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Local actors seek climate change damages from the biggest fossil fuel companies through state law litigation. EPA and the Supreme Court’s deregulatory trend, state action remains an avenue for climate change adaptation and mitigation. In climate change cases, the defendants are the oil and gas companies.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The biggest success of the United Nations climate convening (COP27) in Sharm El-Sheik, Egypt, last year was the creation of the Loss and Damage Fund, intended to provide resources to climate-vulnerable, low-income countries to help them cope with the extreme impacts of climate change.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 7, 2021

And over and above those trends, there’s climate change — leading to a sharp increase in extreme weather events with more yet to come. By the time Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico in 2017, FEMA was already dealing with the aftermaths of two other huge storms. Climate change will only intensify the inequalities.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 4, 2024

You can read their insights from their experiences—including being denied the opportunity to take the floor—and their efforts to engage with Dr. Avery in 2017 , 2018 , and 2019. At ExxonMobil’s 2017 AGM—when Dr. Avery was added to the board—a majority of shareholders for the first time approved a climate-related shareholder proposal.

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Legal Planet

MAY 19, 2022

Chicago is also, as it turns out, ground zero for climate change. Climate change is making old solutions obsolete. Chicago has been confronting an unusual problem that may be linked with climate change. That seems like a plausible scenario under climate change but seemingly hasn’t been established yet.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 5, 2022

Ontario’s upcoming election will determine whether our province will be part of the climate change solution. The recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report concluded that the world needs to cut greenhouse emissions in half by the end of this decade to avoid total climate breakdown.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 30, 2023

But such a question is not an optimal proxy for a sea level rise hazard disclosure because FEMA’s maps only reflect past flood experience rather than “ the degree to which climate change and sea-level rise are expected to heighten the risk of flooding and expand the areas that will be subject to flooding in the future.”

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

In Japan, climate litigation ( / Kiko soshou ) has been used to challenge the legality of the construction and operation of the coal-fired power plants and promote coal phase-out. The first climate case in Japan was filed in Sendai in 2017 ( Sendai Citizens v. Japan ) and a second in Yokosuka in 2019 ( Yokosuka Climate Case ).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

From 2014 through 2017, more than half of all EVs sold in the US were purchased in California, but that fraction has now fallen to one third. Gasoline continues to be at near-record prices and as we see more impacts from climate change people are interested in what they can do to lower emissions.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

To meet emissions goals and avoid the worst impacts of climate change, this trend will need to accelerate over the coming decades. Gasoline consumption is down by more than two billion gallons per year since 2017, when 15.6 Burning gasoline in an automobile produces carbon dioxide, the primary cause of climate change.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 31, 2024

The fossil fuel industry has long been the main driver of climate change, but Big Oil’s CEOs and profiteers would like you to believe that it is a part of the solution. In 2017 he shared his yacht with the interim leader of the Conservative Party, Rona Ambrose, for her vacation around the Caribbean.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

AUGUST 11, 2021

In a series of pieces, I have explored how the for profit insurance industry can accelerate climate change adaptation progress. Here is my 2017 co -authored Harvard Business Review piece. Here is my recent RMS interview.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 5, 2021

In it, the author makes this statement, in emphasizing how extreme the wildfire smoke has been in California over the past few years: I’ve lived in the Bay Area for nearly 30 years, but only since 2017 can I remember experiencing periodic episodes of bad air quality.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 17, 2025

In Northern California, the Tubbs Fires effects on Santa Rosa in 2017 and the Camp Fire, which burned the entire town of Paradise only a year later, were among the first wildfires known to cause widespread drinking water contamination in cities.

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Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2021

Both are leading scholars in their fields, exceptional classroom educators, and leaders of public interest initiatives that are shaping climate change and environmental law and policy in California, the U.S., and jurisdictions around the world.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

As climate change exacerbates the volatility and unpredictability of California’s water system, understanding the whole set of users and their demands is more important than ever for climate resilient management. Failure to register conclusively waived and relinquished any right to water.

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Real Climate

DECEMBER 17, 2022

2017) Atlantic meridional heat transports computed from balancing Earth’s energy locally, Geophys. Nature Climate Change, 5, 475–480, doi:10.1038/nclimate2554. 2022), Greenland ice sheet climate disequilibrium and committed sea-level rise, Nature Clim. References. Trenberth, K. & Fasullo, J. 44: 1919-1927.

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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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Energy & the Law

JULY 31, 2022

The allegations in this 2018 suit are that fossil fuel companies concealed the effects of fossil fuels on climate change and disingenuously marketed their products to the harm of the people living in Boulder County. The Cities of San Francisco and Oakland sued five fossil fuel companies in September 2017. Suncor Energy .

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Legal Planet

JULY 12, 2023

Whether climate change impacts to Montana’s environment can be measured incrementally. Whether climate impacts and effects in Montana can be attributed to Montana’s fossil fuel activities. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. They are: Whether Plaintiffs’ injuries are mischaracterized or inaccurate.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

A group of youths in Hawaii used their states Green Amendment to sue the Hawaii Department of Transportation for its increased release of greenhouse gas emissions, which contributes to man-made climate change. Pennsylvania passed its Green Amendment in 1971 with overwhelming support.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Four important global reports released in the last two days set up a deeply sobering context for the upcoming annual international climate talks in Egypt, also called COP27. Source: UN Climate Change 2022 NDC Synthesis Report. Source: UN Climate Change 2022 NDC Synthesis Report. The UNEP Emissions Gap Report.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Over a decade, from 2007-2017 , the direct costs of extreme weather events to the federal government was $350 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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Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Fortunately, there are additional CERES instruments on Suomi-NPP (launched in 2011) and NOAA-20 (launched in 2017) that can be used. Koonin, "Earth's Albedo 1998–2017 as Measured From Earthshine", Geophysical Research Letters , vol. References. Shoumko, S. Shoumko, P. Rodriguez, and S.E. Johnson, T.J. Thorsen, J.M. Lyman, F.G.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 2, 2024

In 2017, our grid was 96 percent non-emitting. For an analysis of the CER and the flexibilities considered by the government, please review this backgrounder. Ontario is going the wrong way when it comes to clean electricity. Now, due to the provincial government’s increased use of gas plants, it is only 87 percent emissions-free.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

In this blog post, we will briefly explain (i) the background of climate change laws in Colombia, (ii) the nature and reach of the ‘ Acción de Cumplimiento ,’ and (iii) the two judgments and their implications for climate action in Colombia. Decree 298 of 2016 on the National Climate Change System.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 31, 2022

As with many environmental issues, when it comes to climate change and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, this is no ordinary election. . For the past four years, Ontario has been failing on climate change. Establish Ontario’s first Youth Climate Corps. Foster climate change resilience.

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Legal Planet

MAY 9, 2022

Following are some of my key takeaways (detailed in this and another forthcoming report) about the appropriate role of emissions trading in climate change policy and general thoughts on improving the effectiveness of carbon markets. – Emissions trading as part of a portfolio of climate policies. – Do no harm.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Brazil: When a court accepts the legally disruptive nature of climate change. The decision suggests that courts can reconcile the legally disruptive nature of climate change with the fundamental role that adjudication plays in maintaining the stability of legal orders, and it could influence other cases and decisions across the world.

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Inside Climate News

APRIL 23, 2023

Climate change portends ever more frequent fires, and the smoky haze is “not easy to run from anymore,” notes one of the study’s leaders. By Emma Foehringer Merchant When wildfires spread through parts of Northern California wine country in 2017, they melted electronics, combusted cars and exploded propane tanks.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 25, 2023

Driven by drought and water quality conditions in the Klamath River, since 2017 the Karuk committed to only harvesting 200 salmon for their ceremonies. But with climate change, more droughts, and periods of scarcity before us, might this standoff set an ugly precedent for other senior rights holders?

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