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DEP Releases 2024 Climate Change Action Plan Update; 2024 Climate Impacts Assessment Report

PA Environment Daily

On April 25, the Department of Environmental Protection announced the release of the 2024 Climate Change Action Plan Update and 2024 Climate Impacts Assessment Report. Visit DEPs Climate Change webpage for more information on these and other Pennsylvania climate initiatives.

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Cultural Heritage is a Human Right. Climate Change is Fast Eroding It.

Union of Concerned Scientists

Climate impacts as human rights violations It’s widely accepted that climate change is the cause of human rights violations for millions of people, including their rights to adequate housing, healthy working conditions, safe drinking water, education, and a healthy environment.

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Dear Oil and Gas CEOs: Here’s How You Should Spend Those Record Profits

Union of Concerned Scientists

But a March 2022 analysis from the investor consortium Climate Action 100+ determined that no major oil company was on track to meet the Paris goals. DO: Pay your fair share of the costs of climate change. That requires bringing global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions to net zero by 2050.

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IPCC: The planet is on red alert

A Greener Life

Just months be fore the crucial UN climate summit, COP26 kicks off in Glasgow, UK in November the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has issued one of its starkest reports stating that governments have taken too long to take action and we are now paying the price. Unprecedented.

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A Differentiated Path Forward: The Inter-American Court’s Advisory Opinion on Climate Change and Human Mobility Rights

Law Columbia

This blog post examines that question concerning the IACtHR ’s treatment of the nexus between climate change and human mobility. The IACtHR ’s analysis on the nexus of climate change and human mobility, concentrated in twenty-one remarkably dense paragraphs (paras.

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Is there any Climate Justice or is it Just-us? A focus on the Caribbean

HumanNature

Guest Post by Michelan Wilson , 2022-2023 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Economics at Colorado State University As we head into the 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27), issues surrounding the impact of climate change in the Caribbean are high on the agenda.

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California Advances Corporate Climate Accountability Amid New Evidence of ExxonMobil’s Deception

Union of Concerned Scientists

Gavin Newsom said that fossil fuel climate accountability litigation could be a gamechanger and he’s eager to work with other governors to pursue this strategy. The lawsuit relies on attribution science , which marshals evidence linking such impacts as wildfires, coastal erosion, drought, and heat waves to climate change.