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Future Trends in Climate Litigation Against Governments

Law Columbia

National governments are the most important systemic actors in the governance of climate action, primarily because they are the only actors with the ability to adopt economy-wide decarbonization measures. Over 80 government framework cases have been filed around the world, using a wide variety of legal and factual arguments.

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The cost of climate inaction laid bare as fatal wildfires sweep Turkey

A Greener Life

They said the government was not doing enough to help them, while 16 planes and 51 helicopters tackled the blazes across a swathe of southwest Turkey. Climate scientists have long predicted that the Mediterranean will be hit hard by rising temperatures and changes in rainfall, driven by human emissions.

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The COP26 climate summit: what scientists hope it will achieve

Physics World

But the United Nations has just said that the latest commitments of the 192 parties of the 2015 Paris agreement will equate to a 16% rise in global greenhouse-gas emissions in 2030 compared to 2010. While most climate scientists are not directly involved in high-level negotiations, their work is essential to the process.

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Viewpoint: Forty-three years of the environmental movement?

A Greener Life

In June 1979, atmospheric carbon stood at 339ppm, just below the 350ppm level scientists believe to be safe. In 2021 the world emitted 36.4 In 1990 the IPCC completed their First Assessment Report climate report. Today that number is 420ppm and rising. It is estimated that in 1979 the world emitted 19.61 billion tonnes of CO2.

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War in Ukraine and the Climate Crisis Are Connected: Our Future Depends on Solutions that Address Both

Union of Concerned Scientists

Fossil fuels are the root cause of climate change, of long-standing environmental injustices, and are also frequently connected to geopolitical strife and violent conflicts. Multiple crises colliding with climate change. It’s clear we cannot continue to live this way, it will destroy our civilization.”. Syria (with 6.8

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The US Supreme Court intervenes to delay action on the climate crisis

A Greener Life

The highest court in the US voted by 6-3 to limit any US government’s authority to reduce CO2 emissions. A dent in climate diplomacy. This is set to have serious implications for US’s global role in climate leadership which only resumed when Joe Biden took over in January 2021.

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August 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

July 15, 2021). First Circuit Vacated Stay Order in Lawsuit Alleging Exxon Failed to Prepare Petroleum Terminal for Climate Change. July 1, 2021). July 19, 2021). July 16, 2021). July 16, 2021); Indigenous Environmental Network v. July 30, 2021). State of Washington ex rel. Haskell v. Biden , No.

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