Law Columbia

JUNE 22, 2022

On June 13, 2022, Chile published its Climate Change Framework Law (“the Climate Act”). The Climate Act includes a binding goal of net zero emissions by 2050 at the latest, following the recommendations of the IPCC. In 2019, Chile became President of the 25th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP25).

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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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Law and Environment

JUNE 16, 2021

Membership fell to twelve when New Hampshire dropped out in 2019. The post TCI Update: Final Model Rule Addresses EJ, but Political Will May Be Lacking first appeared on Law and the Environment. economy, it’s not clear at this point whether enough member states will participate for the program to have a meaningful impact.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Delhi, 2019: Don’t Breath The Air. This isn’t about a freak weather pattern: it is about climate. Wind is famously difficult to model, but climate researchers have concluded that climate change is stopping wind and changing wind patterns. Move right along. But not so fast. There is no safe place.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The flood of fallacies or deceptions begins with the paper’s title: “To what extent are temperature levels changing due to greenhouse gas emissions?” But the effect of greenhouse gases is not even investigated in the paper – which suggests the title is politically motivated. It’s not hard to understand.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Together with Scientists for Global Responsibility, we’ve launched a petition demanding that Elsevier and its parent company, RELX, detail their plans to align their business practices with their public commitments to address climate change. But reining in climate change requires us to quickly transition away from fossil fuel use.

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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. Addressing population, therefore, must be part of humanity’s response to global climate change.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 7, 2024

Back in 2019, at the last face-to-face Assembly, the Swiss proposed a resolution to assess the science and possible governance of ‘climate altering techniques’ aka geoengineering. Wider involvement The most striking development compared to 2019 was that this time around many more countries got involved.

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MGKF Law

APRIL 29, 2021

Earlier this month, the Second Circuit affirmed the District Court for the Southern District of New York’s ruling that state common law claims against oil companies for costs resulting from climate change were either preempted by the Clean Air Act, or, in the case of foreign emissions, represented a non-justiciable political question.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 22, 2023

The onslaught has led to another round of media headlines and press releases from environmental and public health groups asking whether the nation is at a tipping point of urgency to fight climate change. A Vox headline on the orange skies from Canadian wildfires said, “Wildfire smoke reminded people about climate change.

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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. The admission says a lot about political will. Enter the youth plaintiffs.

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Law Columbia

MAY 9, 2024

This blog post discusses the relevance of the KlimaSeniorinnen case to the discussion of vulnerability and intersectional gender in climate litigation. To date, very few climate cases have addressed the gendered dimensions of climate change and there was some hope that this case would.

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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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Global Green

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Ultimately, the message conveyed by Moore is renewable technology is not enough to save our planet from climate change and the only way forward is for the human race to slow down. Individuals and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) jointly brought a legal challenge against the Directive RED II in 2019. Hydropower.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Perhaps the closest to a climate anthem is the 2019 Fatboy Slim mash-up of Greta Thunberg’s U.N. climate speech. Now, imagine a climate protest song that could spur the kind of online memes we saw of Swifties screaming along to “Cruel Summer.” She’s been extremely successful in affecting political change in the past too.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 7, 2024

used the words “ climate change ” expressly. According to a 2019 report by the Motion Picture Association, there were 1.4 According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the global average temperature has already risen by 1.1°C Even fewer (just 0.6%) explicitly mentioned the term “climate change.”

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 19, 2022

A new report details just how much the climate crisis could cost the U.K. Action on climate change of all kinds needs to be right at the heart of government policy and programs.” – Doug Parr, policy director at Greenpeace UK. In context: HotSpots H2O: In Afghanistan, Political Upheaval Aggravates Drought-Fueled Famine.

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Edouard Stenger

JULY 11, 2023

According to Reuters : Last month was the hottest June globally on record, with abnormally high temperatures recorded on both land and sea, the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service said on Thursday. What lacks is the political leadership and courage. Globally, June was just over 0.5C

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 23, 2023

Oliver was appointed to chair the IESO in 2019 and during his time, not only has the IESO failed to prepare Ontario for a clean electricity grid, but it has promoted the continued and expanded use of “natural” gas, or more accurately, fossil gas. It’s only the lack of political will and leadership holding us back.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

APRIL 24, 2022

In February 2021, Johns Hopkins Press published my Co-authored " Unlocking the Potential of Post-Industrial Cities" and in March 2021, Yale University Press published my book; " Adapting to Climate Change". Climate adaptation optimism is still viewed as politically incorrect stuff.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 7, 2021

In 2019, that same company was in the news for purchasing water rights throughout the state and attempting to sell and lease them, prompting an ongoing legislative review of water marketing. If climate change forecasts prove accurate, the summer of 2021 was a dress rehearsal for the future.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 18, 2022

Photo credit: Copernicus Sentinel data (2019), processed by ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 The EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), the EU’s Earth Observation Programme, said that records dating back to 1850 showed that in 2021 the global average temperature was 1.1-1.2 Desertification seen south of Sahara, in Africa.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 2, 2023

As a second benefit, they claim to be engaged in political symbolism, trying to disrupt a stuck debate over effective climate responses and get people to talk about solar geoengineering – of which stratospheric aerosol injection is the most promising method being discussed. Could this activity change the climate?

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

We have examined the effect of the geographical distribution of measurements in a study that was cited by New Scientist in 2019 , and we found that the uneven distribution of thermometer measurements can give a misleading impression that the perceived warming rate has been slower than the actual global warming. It has taken time.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Government adopts a sector-by-sector plan to reach 2050 climate goals. Climate law makes emission targets legally binding 2019. Climate Action Act is adopted, with a 2050 net-zero target and 55% cuts by 2030 compared with 1990. How did reunification impact climate policy? Renewables are 42% of electricity.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 20, 2023

Instead, the broken process led to controversy and political gridlock – and a loss of public trust in Canada’s environmental laws and the decisions being made. When the new law was finally introduced in 2019, environmental groups didn’t get everything we wanted, but it did make some important improvements.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 18, 2023

It’s something that I have felt very strongly about for a long time”, was his sombre view about the current state of climate politics. In recent years, examples have piled up of how sporting events have been severely impacted by the rise of extreme weather due to climate change.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 19, 2023

Ricardo Salvador, UCS Food and Environment Program Director, arrested with Jane Fonda protesting climate change on Nov. The magnitude of the climate threat, made clear by climate science, has cracked through a longstanding scientific culture that holds that science should exist outside of the political realm.

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Washington Nature

JUNE 8, 2021

by Pascale Chamberland, Masters of Public Administration Candidate 2021, University of Washington Evans School of Public Policy & Governance From a massive social media campaign to plant 20 million trees to businesses planting a tree for each product sold, people seem eager to fight climate change using natural climate solutions (NCS).

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2021

As a government delegate, I have been involved in the UN climate negotiation process since 2017 to uphold Bangladesh’s and the Least Developed Countries (LDC) Group’s position. Negotiations over Article 6 were highly technical and contentious in COP24 (2018) and COP25 (2019) but were then finally agreed at the last moment of COP26.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Two-thirds of the G20’s public finance for energy went to fossil fuels in 2019–2020. Subsidies reached new highs in 2021, even before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a Climate Transparency analysis finds. In total, 63% of the G20’s public finance for energy went to fossil fuels in 2019–2020. Photo credit: Jiri Vondrous / Alamy.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 15, 2022

The host of this year’s Annual Meeting, Governor Wilson Lima of Amazonas, Brazil – a state in the heart of the Amazon Basin which in and of itself is nearly three times larger than France – has Chaired the GCF Task Force since its last meeting in Caquetá, Colombia, in 2019.

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Physics World

DECEMBER 11, 2021

McIntyre is the author of several previous books, including The Scientific Attitude: Defending Science from Denial, Fraud and Pseudoscience , where he argues that what makes science distinctive is its emphasis on evidence and scientists’ willingness to change theories on the basis of new information. 2021 MIT Press $24.95hb 280pp.

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Frontiers

MARCH 18, 2022

The specialist team further comprises: Dr. His interdisciplinary research deals with the psychological and spiritual dimensions related to environmental issues and especially climate change. This year he launched a successful podcast named Climate Change and Happiness , which he co-hosts with Dr. Thomas Doherty.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 5, 2024

18 Webinar On Unlocking The Power Of Hydrogen [PaEN] -- Environmental Health Project Executive Director Alison Steele Selected For Indo-Pacific Leadership Lab Climate Change And Adaptation Initiative -- Appalachian Region Independent Power Producers Assn.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

At the evening seafood reception that year, in a corner near the fresh oysters, a board member of the Maine Lobstermen’s Association remarked to me, “Everyone blames everything on climate change, but they blame the Right Whale on lobstering.” His remark has remained with me ever since. Fortunately, Maine is up to the challenge.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Ensuring the most historically disadvantaged groups aren’t bearing an unequal burden for the cost of cooling themselves during climate change-caused heat waves is a clear example of energy equity that our electric and gas utilities could address. How are energy equity and energy justice connected?

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