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Legal Planet
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
As an archipelago, Indonesia is at the prey of sea level rise. Jakarta, a city of ten million, is only two feet above sea level. Indonesia’s 2021 climate pledge under the Paris Agreement was to reduce emissions from 2020-2030 by 29%. It gets relatively attention in the United States.
Real Climate
NOVEMBER 11, 2023
While temperatures provide a measure of the Earth’s climate, it is even better to use the global sea level , which provides a far more reliable measure. The global sea level acts like the mercury in a thermometer because warmer water expands. Hence my friend’s question about COP28.
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A Greener Life
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
Subsidies reached new highs in 2021, even before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a Climate Transparency analysis finds. The G20 group of nations provided nearly US$200 billion in support of fossil fuels in 2021, despite the worsening impacts of the climate crisis and their pledge in 2009 to phase out “inefficient” subsidies.
Ocean Conservancy
NOVEMBER 30, 2022
Representatives from civil society, non-governmental organizations and the private sector gathered alongside governmental representatives to influence decisions and advance contributions toward the goals of the Paris Agreement of 2015. I was joined by Ocean Conservancy colleagues working to advance ocean-climate action. Green Shipping.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JUNE 6, 2022
Wildfires have broken out in Siberia , which is one of the fastest warming parts of the world and where hotter, drier conditions have fueled record-breaking fire seasons including in 2021. Danger season, together with ongoing slow-moving disasters like sea level rise, is pushing people and ecosystems to their limits in many places.
Circle of Blue
NOVEMBER 16, 2021
Low-income residents in the slums of Gambia’s capital city face severe flooding as sea levels rise and infrastructure deteriorates. World leaders reach a climate agreement, disappointing many environmental activists. Water projects across the Navajo Nation could cost $4 billion. Drinking Water Directives by Ireland.
Legal Planet
APRIL 2, 2024
degrees Celsius (the stretch goal in the Paris Agreement of keeping the world’s average surface temperature to no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-Industrial levels by 2100) within reach or, at the very least, to reset the parameters within which ongoing political negotiations are conducted.
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