Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Current national climate pledges fall well-short of the Paris Agreement goal to keep global average temperature increase this century well below 2°C and to pursue efforts to limit temperature increase to 1.5°C The UN’s 2021 Emissions Gap Report finds that under current pledges temperatures will still rise by 2.7°C To hit the 1.5°C

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 26, 2022

California’s Central Valley consistently experiences the country’s worst air quality, and climate change is poised to make air quality even worse. In a region known for its exceptional agricultural productivity, climate change is quickly amplifying a dangerous type of climate risk in California’s Central Valley: air pollution.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 16, 2021

Christian Thorsberg, Circle of Blue –– August 16, 2021. As famines historically are caused by conflict or political issues, and socioeconomic vulnerabilities, the famine in Madagascar–one of the lowest emitters of carbon and greenhouse gasses in the world–stands out as being heavily influenced by climate change.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 11, 2021

According to the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report published Monday, Southeast Asia coastal zones are among the world’s most climate vulnerable regions. By Laura Gersony, Circle of Blue — August 10, 2021. Graphic courtesy of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

South Korea has made significant international climate commitments. In 2021, South Korea set a target under the Paris Agreement of a 40% cut from 2018 levels by 2030. The post South Korea and Climate Change appeared first on Legal Planet. He is a strong believer in nuclear energy as a key part of the energy transition.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 6, 2022

Deadly heatwaves, extreme drought, food and water shortages, catastrophic flooding, rapidly intensifying tropical storms, raging wildfires—around the world, climate change is exacerbating extreme conditions and their harsh toll on people and ecosystems. The fearsome toll of climate impacts is already clear, leading U.N.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 9, 2024

In a transformative moment for European and global climate litigation, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled today that the state has a positive duty to adopt, and effectively implement in practice, regulations and measures capable of mitigating the existing and potentially irreversible future effects of climate change.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 24, 2022

Climate change has sped up the arrival of spring, with major consequences for wildfires (Fig. Climate change has disrupted historical trends and created conditions for year-round wildfires. Together, these studies illustrate how climate change has elevated the threat of wildfires year-round.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 24, 2022

And is that kind of description even relevant as the planet heats up and climate change changes everything? Thanks to climate change. Add climate change and we need to keep track of which decade these flood levels were determined. Extreme event probability and associated severity is changing.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 6, 2021

For months, international’s organizations have blamed the calamity on climate change. By Laura Gersony, Circle of Blue — December 6, 2021. International organizations had blamed the calamity on climate change, but a new study rejects that assumption. Image © Heinonlein / Wikimedia Commons.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Women and girls in low-income countries are likely to bear the burden of climate catastrophes like floods and droughts. Climate change is decreasing fish populations at one of Nova Scotia’s biggest fish hatcheries. Women and Girls Will Disproportionately Feel the Impact of Climate Change.

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Real Climate

OCTOBER 27, 2021

All countries in the world urgently need to adapt to climate change but are not yet in a good position to do so. It’s urgent because we are not even adapted to the present climate. Such reports provide a summary of the state of our knowledge, but are not sufficiently specific for climate change adaptation.

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Environmental Law Centre

OCTOBER 26, 2021

A Yearly Update on Climate Change Litigation, the 2021 Edition For a number of years, the Environmental Law Centre (“ELC”) has published a semi-regular. The post A Yearly Update on Climate Change Litigation, the 2021 Edition appeared first on Environmental Law Centre.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 4, 2024

In part one of this series we introduced you to the huge role that the Canadian financial sector plays in exacerbating the climate crisis. Climate change could have some very significant negative impacts on the Canadian economy, and therefore your money. In this blog, we’ll discuss how climate change poses a risk to finance.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

JULY 16, 2021

John Cochrane recently posted an important blog post sketching out his claim that climate change will only have a small impact on world GNP over the next 75 years. He argues that the trend growth (3% growth for 60 years) will swamp the effect of climate change). See m y slides here starting on slide 9.

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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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Environmental News Bits

APRIL 8, 2022

Presentation slides and recordings from the 2021 Behavior, Energy, and Climate Change Conference are now available. The call for presentation and poster abstracts for the 2022 conference, scheduled for November 13-16 in Washington, DC, is open through April 15, 2022. The theme of the conference is Engaging All Voices.

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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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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

This week, Circle of Blue reports on how water fits into the upcoming UN Climate Change Conference. When diplomats and government ministers converge on Glasgow this fall, they hope to rekindle pivotal negotiations on global climate that were dampened during the pandemic. Ingrid Timboe is a co-chair of the water pavilion.

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Real Climate

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Fall is here (in the northern hemisphere at least), along with articles about the impact of climate change on autumnal colors. and the World Economic Forum has proposed and Earth Operations Center to monitor greenhouse gases and climate change. The post Unforced Variations: Oct 2021 first appeared on RealClimate.

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Environmental Law Centre

AUGUST 23, 2021

“Climate change widespread, rapid, and intensifying” Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change August 9, 2021 Press Release The impacts of climate change are becoming. The post Climate change widespread, rapid, and intensifying appeared first on Environmental Law Centre.

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Law and Environment

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

While it did not promulgate any new rules in 2021 regarding these disclosures, the SEC has been actively commenting on climate change disclosures, and new rules are almost certainly on the way.

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Environmental News Bits

APRIL 21, 2022

Sammi Munson, John Kotcher, Edward Maibach, Seth A Rosenthal, Anthony Leiserowitz (2021). “The role of felt responsibility in climate change political participation.” ” Oxford Open Climate Change, 1(1), kgab012.

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Yale E360

JANUARY 10, 2022

2021 was the fifth-hottest year on record and close to 1.2 degrees F) warmer than the preindustrial average, according to an analysis from the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service. degrees C (2.1

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Environmental and Urban Economics

AUGUST 18, 2021

His letter makes an analogy between climate change and Clint Eastwood in the first Dirty Harry movie. Professor Mann is implicitly saying that we also face uncertainty in the face of climate change and we are currently taking a gamble by allowing global greenhouse gas emissions to rise. Is he right?

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Circle of Blue

JULY 8, 2021

The post The Stream, July 8, 2021: Dams in California Hurt Ability of Streamside Trees to Adapt to Climate Change appeared first on Circle of Blue. Castillo ran on a platform that spoke to the needs of residents like Maxima Ccalla, an indigenous Quechua woman who has spent her life laboring in the Andean highlands.

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Environmental News Bits

DECEMBER 2, 2021

“Climate Change Disinformation and How to Combat It.” link] Abstract: Climate change presents a challenge at multiple levels: It challenges our cognitive abilities because the effect of the accumulation of emissions is difficult to understand. Lewandowsky, S. ” Annual Review of Public Health 42(1), 1-21.

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Scientific American

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

In the five decades between 1970 and 2021, extreme climate events caused more than two million deaths and led to economic losses of $4.3 trillion, 60 percent of which occurred in developing countries, a U.N. report found

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

At the UN climate conference last week, Colombian officials said they would declare 30 percent of the country as protected land by next year. Climate change is threatening freshwater systems in Colombia, where cloud forests provide 70 percent of the country’s drinking water. Google claims the water-use data is a trade secret.

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Breezometer

JULY 12, 2021

A significant body of research suggests that the likelihood and impact of wildfires today may be greater as a result of climate change. This summer has already brought extreme heat waves, oil spills caused by thawing permafrost, and raging forest fires – what next before we finally act on climate? What’s Been Happening in 2021?

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Climate change is warming river waters, while aging dams are blocking fish from their normal migration routes. The post What’s Up With Water – October 25, 2021 appeared first on Circle of Blue. Salmon have been sustenance for residents of the Hoopa Valley Reservation for centuries.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 14, 2021

The researchers could not pin the event directly on a warming climate, but they noted that climate change does play a role in the stability of mountain slopes. He wants to incorporate layers of data on climate change, nutrient inputs from aquaculture and agriculture, and ocean dynamics. to a depth of 6 inches.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 30, 2021

. ——————————————– In extreme weather news, new research finds that climate change is behind the intensity of deadly storms that hit Germany and Belgium last month. Such downpours are rare, but due to climate change they are happening more often.

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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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Yale E360

DECEMBER 31, 2021

NASA's Earth Observatory regularly publishes striking satellite images of our rapidly changing planet, from the massive fires in Greece and California to the historic floods in China and the Netherlands. See how the Earth has changed in images taken over the past year. Read more on E360 ?.

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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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Circle of Blue

MARCH 2, 2022

Michigan Faces Water Challenges Amid Bid for Climate Refuge. Water woes are becoming more common in Michigan, even as many see it as a refuge from climate change. Why It Matters: Water indeed could make the Great Lakes region a climate refuge. Experts say climate change is driving more intense downpours.

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