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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. cities, counties, and states over climate damages and deception; and 39 cases brought by seven coastal parishes and the State of Louisiana seeking damages for coastal erosion around oil fields.

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

Union of Concerned Scientists

Flooding, coastal erosion, wildfires, thawing permafrost, and extreme weather events are causing unprecedented loss and damage of places and customs. It called for compensation from the government, and for Australia to take more aggressive measures to prevent climate change at the national and international levels.

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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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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. The conference has been held annually since 1992 and governments use it to agree on actions to limit global temperature increases associated with climate change. So why don’t these islands just adapt to climate change?

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

Law Columbia

For example, the judges note that nearly two-thirds of all newly displaced persons in 2022 came from 15 countries that are particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change (paras. Corresponding state obligations Based on these factual findings, the IACtHR concludes that states bear several preventive and repressive obligations (paras.

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

Union of Concerned Scientists

The lawsuit relies on attribution science , which marshals evidence linking such impacts as wildfires, coastal erosion, drought, and heat waves to climate change. California’s laws should also motivate the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to finalize its climate disclosure rule , which it proposed in March 2022.

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The Stream, January 5, 2022: Can “Smarter” Tech in the Great Lakes Combat Climate Change?

Circle of Blue

Lacking faith in government, South Africans take it upon themselves to deliver basic necessities like water to their communities. Researchers, scientists, and government agencies are hoping to implement “smarter” technologies to monitor the Great Lakes. YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN. Water bill payments will resume in Phoenix, Arizona.