Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2025

History of the Case Background to the Claim In April 2021, a group of plaintiffs led by the Czech Climate Litigation Association ( Klimatick aloba R ), and including a municipality and several individuals, filed a case against the central government of the Czech Republic and four subsidiary ministries for their inaction on climate change.

Paris Agreement

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 2, 2024

A new chapter of global climate accountability has hopefully begun, as the International Court of Justice (ICJ) prepares to issue an advisory opinion on the Obligations of States in respect of Climate Change. Hearings for that opinion began today with over 100 countries and other parties presenting over two weeks. L to R: Ms.

Climate Change

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 2, 2024

It’s a common misconception that Congress has never passed any climate change legislation. But it has passed laws regulating two powerful greenhouse gases, and some other climate laws stretching back over the past five decades. It has been assumed that this referred only to local climatic effects. It also calls for a U.S.

Law

A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

During Trump’s first term, the US became the first nation in the world to announce its withdrawal from the Paris Agreement (a decision reversed by Joe Biden in 2021). A potential new path forward The past two decades have seen some progress in the realm of climate finance, but not enough. This will be a decisive issue at COP29.

Paris Agreement

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The nation is grappling with yet another year of climate change-fueled disasters with billion-dollar price tags, from the extreme heat and wildfires out west and back-to-back hurricanes. Regrettably, this is where we find ourselves.

Climate Change

Law Columbia

MARCH 19, 2025

8] In 2021, a court in the Hague found that Royal Dutch Shell violated its fiduciary duties under Dutch law by failing to address its climate risk adequately and ordered the company to reduce CO 2 emissions by net 45% by the end of 2030 against a 2019 baseline. [9] Fiduciary duties must change, even if that will be difficult.

Law

Law Columbia

JANUARY 24, 2025

Among the EOs rescinded on Monday was President Bidens 2021 Executive Order on Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad (EO No. The phrase EV mandate also jibes with a political antagonism to some electric vehicle tax credits.

Paris Agreement

Yale E360

APRIL 4, 2025

Researchers ran the model with data from 2021, finding it accurately forecast the risk of lightning-induced wildfires more than 90 percent of the time. With the growing implications of climate change, new modeling tools are required to better understand and predict its impacts,” said lead author Assaf Shmuel , of Bar Ilan University.

2014

Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 24, 2025

Lets look at Ontario Premier Doug Ford, who shares many political views with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith (at least until the current spat over using oil as leverage with President Trumps threatened tariffs). That was then and this is now, and today Ontario faces a growing political challenge – affordability. MT in 2020, or 13.5

Government

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The initiative is an effort to roll back the state’s pathbreaking 2021 law, which established a statewide cap-and-trade program. Also in Washington, the title of Initiative 211 is “Prohibit Carbon Tax Credit Trading,” which pretty much says it all. Each side has spent in the neighborhood of $12 million in the battle over the initiative.

Carbon Dioxide

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

This is despite the claim in API’s 2021 Climate Action Framework to “support cost-effective policies and direct regulation that achieve methane emission reductions.” API flexes formidable political muscle, with its policy submissions to the previous Trump administration entering the regulatory record practically verbatim.

Fossil Fuels

A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

The outcome will define global climate action and policies and could mean making or breaking for a liveable climate. In 2016, a lot of commentators and climate advocates, including ourselves, concluded that if Donald Trump won the 2016 election, it would be a ‘game over for action on climate change ’.

2024

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 15, 2025

Between 2010 and 2021, not only did the frequency of new warehouse construction rise, but the size of these new warehouses increased by nearly 150 percent compared to the norm. These facilities are largely concentrated around areas with existing logistics infrastructureports, railyards, and the like.

Ground-Level Ozone

A Greener Life

APRIL 28, 2025

Faced with an escalating trade war with US President Donald Trump , Carney has shifted course on key climate policies to stabilise Canada’s economy. As Canadians prepare to vote in the 2025 federal election, Carneys green credentialsonce a defining feature of his political risehave been tempered by economic realpolitik.

2025

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 6, 2025

Danger Season runs yearly from May through October and is a time when extreme weather events, made worse each year by climate change, are at their peak in the US and increasingly likely to collide.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

JANUARY 17, 2025

Photo credit: CAL FIRE We know climate change is partly to blame. Holding aid hostage to serve political goals slows the process down and threatens to rob ordinary folks of the help that they desperately need, from a system they paid into and now depend on for quick relief.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 16, 2025

But then things heated up: wind and solar generated more than 5% of monthly electricity for the first time in 2013, passed the 10% point in 2017, leapt past 15% in 2021, and soared past 20% just one year later, in 2022. Wind and solar have supplied at least 10% of US electricity in every single month since September 2021.

Clean Energy

A Greener Life

MARCH 10, 2025

The project was eventually rejected by the incoming Biden Administration in 2021. Meanwhile, climate advocates welcome his victory. Gould vs Karney Some would have preferred Gould over Carney, who, data indicated, would be more assertive about climate change.

2025

Legal Planet

JUNE 17, 2025

Since the inauguration, I’ve found solace in slowly rewatching The West Wing, a good bedtime story for anyone who feels nostalgia for partisan politics of yesteryear. Photos: Evan George I saw a handful of environmental protest signs, but the climate crisis was hardly front and center in these “No Kings” protests. In April when Sen.

Clean Air Act

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

They help ensure decisions that necessitate the use of science are free from political interference, corruption, and unintentional errors. In other words, they help ensure a role for the best available science, rather than allowing favored corporate interests or political actors to call the shots in policy decisions.

Toxic Substances Control Act

Legal Planet

JANUARY 15, 2025

She went to Washington to serve as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Climate and Energy Economics at the US Treasury in 2021-2022, and from there went on to join the MIT faculty. As that goes to show, politics can outweigh constituent interests. She was a longtime faculty member in Berkeleys Haas Business School.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

APRIL 23, 2025

One such survey involved 130,000 people in 125 countries, which account for 96% of the worlds carbon emissions, and was published in the journal Nature Climate Change. The project is a global initiative of Covering Climate Now intended to spur collaboration globally.

Earth Day

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 21, 2025

As a Senate committee prepares to question Rollins at her confirmation hearing this week, they should take a hard look at her record, which includes far more anti-science rhetoric, inflammatory political statements, and ties to polluting industry than demonstrated interest and expertise in agriculture or food policy.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 4, 2024

TODAY 7:00: Dickinson College Host Atmospheric Scientist Katharine Hayhoe To Discuss Finding Hope In The Face Of Climate Change. Digital Foundry in Westmoreland County. 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Dickinson College Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium, Carlisle, Cumberland County. Click Here to watch online. December 5-- Agenda Posted.

Natural Gas

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 24, 2025

This week in Danger Season we’re thinking about the current whiplash the nation is experiencing from both our climate and our politics, we’re looking at the gathering eastern US heat wave, and we’re thinking about who all of this hurts most. Erika Spanger and Marc Alessi contributed to this post.

Politics

PA Environment Daily

JULY 27, 2025

Because In Politics Everything Is Connected To Everything Else-- -- Gov. Shapiro -- Post-Gazette: Gov. Shapiro Frustrated By Length Of ‘Cordial’ And ‘Respectful’ PA Budget Negotiations -- Post-Gazette: Gov. Shapiro Tells Stephen Colbert President Has ‘Abandoned’ Pennsylvanians -- Inquirer: Gov. Ohio- $3.10

Politics

Law Columbia

APRIL 29, 2025

The IRA, which Congress passed and President Biden signed into law in 2022, contains at least 119 distinct climate change-related provisions to be implemented by sixteen federal agencies. Although the President has no power to repeal the IRAthat is up to Congressthe executive branch plays a key role in its implementation.

Regulations

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.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

A human rights-based approach to cultural heritage protection is an essential cornerstone for climate justice and just resilience, but it often seems completely missing from the climate policy equation. Cultural heritage is under immediate and urgent threat from climate change worldwide.

Climate Change

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

I feel like climate change is going to have to get worse before it gets better. Climate change has been a big, scary, looming problem for basically the entirety of my life; I cannot remember a time when it was not at least a background concern. This holiday season, I’m especially grateful for their tone of determination.

Climate Change

Legal Planet

JULY 21, 2023

As Gernot Wagner puts it in ‘ Geoengineering: the Gamble ’: “The decision is all about risk-risk tradeoffs” He urges us to put the risks of potentially pursuing solar geoengineering against “the risks of unmitigated climate change.” The National Academy of Sciences adopted a ’risk-risk’ framing in its 2021 report.

Climate Change

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.

2021

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.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 12, 2022

They are especially squawking about investments that take into account the climate crisis, despite the fact that extreme weather events are wreaking havoc across the country. Below is an abridged version of our exchange. Greenwashing can have serious consequences.

Fossil Fuels

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. According to the 2021 report of Elsevier’s parent company, RELX, roughly 2.5

Fossil Fuels

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.

Climate Change

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.

Climate Change