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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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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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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Legal Planet

MAY 9, 2022

As of 2021, 30 emissions trading systems were in force globally, covering 16 – 17 % of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. – Emissions trading as part of a portfolio of climate policies. As a closing note, we reiterate our firm belief in the importance of continued international collaboration on climate change policy.

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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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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Likewise, the country has started to implement programs to mitigate GHG emissions and to promote REDD+ projects , all intending to achieve climate-related goals. Colombia ’s Legal Climate Framework Colombia’s climate change laws are extensive and align with its open commitment to fight climate change and its devastating effects.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

What is missing is the strength of will within government to get this sorted.” – Guy Linley-Adams, a solicitor for Salmon and Trout Conservation. The post The Stream, September 14, 2021: Could Rainwater Harvesting Solve Water Scarcity in Mexico City? “The law is clear and has been since 1991. appeared first on Circle of Blue.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 2, 2022

Amid claims that the state could be a climate refuge, experts say Michigan faces its own water woes. Delhi’s government will fund two reservoirs along the Yamuna River to boost water supplies. Michigan Faces Water Challenges Amid Bid for Climate Refuge. Experts say climate change is driving more intense downpours.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

How will the nations that have ratified UNESCO’s World Heritage Convention respond to the threat climate change represents to iconic natural and historic sites across the globe? If the Committee agrees, then it will be the first time any World Heritage site has been added to the In Danger list because of climate change.

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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. An example would be government price supports for agriculture that create a moral hazard effect.

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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. and Canadian governments, began testing for PFAS chemicals last August. The amount of rock and ice released in the avalanche was enough to cover Washington, D.C.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 30, 2021

Egypt’s government wants to expand its water supply options, especially for new and growing cities on the Mediterranean coast, which is where the renewable-powered desalination plants would be built. . Such downpours are rare, but due to climate change they are happening more often. The extra water would be welcome.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Government regulators expect that the chemical distribution problem will be short-lived. In India, a government program is bringing running water to more homes in areas of high-poverty. In an unprecedented joint statement, over 200 medical journals have warned that the largest threat to global public health is climate change.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Climate Change Mitigation. The Governor approved a notable slate of climate legislation with a package that includes more stringent greenhouse gas (GHG) emission targets and measures designed to reduce the state’s reliance on fossil fuels. A Few Notable Vetoes.

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Law and Environment

JULY 1, 2022

Make no mistake: the Court’s opinion will have major implications for how the federal government addresses climate change nationally. The Court’s ruling means that federal agencies, such as EPA, are strictly limited in how they can use existing laws, like the Clean Air Act, to implement new climate policies.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 22, 2021

In Case You Missed It: HotSpots H2O: 100,00 Displaced as Water Scarcity Ignites Ethnic Clashes in Cameroon – Climate change has made rainfall in the Sahel more variable, straining Cameroon’s agriculture industry and sparking ethnic tensions. “Third Pole” Glaciers Melting At An Alarming Rate, Study Finds. ON THE RADAR.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

These changes, if adopted, will allow more gas plants to burn more gas further into the future. We urge the government to strengthen the regulations, rather than weaken them. In particular, the federal government must hold the line on the end of life clause and the date that this clause comes into effect.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The government in the United Kingdom announces that water companies will have to prove they have reduced sewage overspills in the next five years. A new survey makes clear the impact climate change is having on migration in India. 2021 Election Preview: Two Cities, Facing Floods and Aridity, Eye Big Public Works.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Climate catastrophes are threatening the rivers Amazonian Indigenous tribes depend on. Members of Congress from Oregon are asking the federal government to declare an emergency declaration as the state’s salmon population continues to die off in warming waters. Drought, floods, and wildfires are destroying the crops of Turkish farmers.

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Breezometer

OCTOBER 31, 2021

As COP26 gets underway this week in Glasgow, Scotland and the World Meteorological Association warns that the past seven years are set to be the warmest on record, we thought this the right time to explore the associated impacts of climate change on the air we breathe. a harmful pollutant. Allergy Sufferers. Pregnant Women. In Summary.

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Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Take Action for Climate-Ready Fisheries. The ocean has buffered our planet from the impacts of climate change, absorbing much of the carbon dioxide we’ve emitted and a substantial amount of the heat from our warming atmosphere. The effects of climate change on marine ecosystems come at a cost to people, businesses and cultures.

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 24, 2023

If applied with integrity, these new rules for government spending will effectively shut the door on the creation of new handouts of public money to the companies most responsible for the climate disasters being experienced today – and free up billions for climate solutions.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 15, 2021

A lack of funding and attention from the federal government has left water and power systems in the United States increasingly vulnerable to cyberattacks. Swiss voters reject proposals to mitigate impacts of climate change and improve drinking water. The post The Stream, June 15, 2021: U.S. YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 20, 2023

This week, on March 21 and 22, the federal government is defending its Impact Assessment Act (IAA) (formerly Bill C-69) at the Supreme Court of Canada. Most significantly, for the first time, Canada’s environmental assessments are legally required to consider a project’s climate impacts. Remember Bill C-69? So back to court we go.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 22, 2021

A UN report calls for governments to be proactive and implement adaptive strategies to combat global drought. The initiative) will provide the necessary data and information to support decisions on water resources development for water supply that are more resilient to climate change and variability. de la Peña. MILLION ($10.1

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 7, 2021

One is climate change. Undark reports that state and local governments are often unprepared for flooding and don’t recognize the risk posed by dams that are near toxic waste sites, leaving communities vulnerable to disaster and environmental contamination. The study was published in the journal Nature. That emergency is here.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 18, 2021

A new report out of the UK calls on the government to improve the country’s climate adaptation plan. Adaptation remains the Cinderella of climate change, still sitting in rags by the stove: under-resourced, underfunded and often ignored.” – Baroness Brown, the chair of the UK’s climate change committee.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Chile’s president-elect Gabriel Boric speaks in Santiago, the day after his election victory in December 2021. President-elect Gabriel Boric’s new government must address issues of decarbonisation, water crisis and lithium nationalisation, all while rewriting the country’s constitution. Photo credit: ZUMA Press / Alamy.

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A Greener Life

JULY 15, 2022

Climate change threatens not just the amount of food that Indian farmers can grow, but also its nutritional quality. This thing, this climate change which everyone talks about, is very real. Close cooperation between agricultural research centres and farmers is also necessary to adapt to the changing climate.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 6, 2021

In the United States, a new mapping project in California has identified a neglected threat from climate change. The recommendations also relate to government aid, including technical and financial assistance to low-income communities and utilities. In the past two decades about 40 percent of its wetlands have been destroyed.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 16, 2022

Countries around the world have increasingly adopted climate change laws over the last two decades. This is partially attributable to the dynamism in international climate negotiations but also a growing appreciation of the crucial role that national laws and policy measures play. Overview of the Climate Change Act 2021.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The island nation has always been at the mercy of climate patterns such as La Niña in the oceans that surround it. But climate change and land use decisions have intensified these trends, plunging the country into one natural disaster after another. Why it matters: Across the world, the cycle of disaster is accelerating.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The global climate crisis requires immediate action, and we can start here at home in our Commonwealth, where we produce more than one percent of global greenhouse gases annually. The ERA is surprisingly not well known in government or by the public. Peduto was selected for the U.S.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Canadian officials urge the federal government to spend more money on water projects in Indigenous communities. While residents in an impoverished village in South Africa go without running water and plumbing, its government built community centers that have gone unused. IN RECENT WATER NEWS. 138 MILLION. 5 MILLION RAND ($313.3

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 3, 2021

Activists in the United Kingdom are asking government officials to create a flash flood warning system as extreme weather events become more frequent. Flash floods on residential streets are becoming more common as climate change worsens, scientists say. And lurching too across Acre state, a highway heaves its concrete girth.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Representatives Scott Peters (D-California) and María Elvira Salazar (R-Florida), the NCARS bill would improve how the federal government prepares and responds to extreme weather and climate-related disasters. Over a decade, from 2007-2017 , the direct costs of extreme weather events to the federal government was $350 billion.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 4, 2021

Climate change and drought is a catalyst here. But the problem is rooted in decades of bad management, poor environmental governance and lack of foresight, and not getting prepared for a situation like this.” – Kaveh Madani, former deputy head of the Iranian Environment Department.

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