Law Columbia
OCTOBER 25, 2024
The next week has the potential to bring important developments for international governance of marine carbon dioxide removal (CDR). In 2022, the parties agreed to evaluate those four approaches, and how they should be governed. LICG has been meeting regularly to advance governance discussions. seaweed) for carbon storage.
Union of Concerned Scientists
DECEMBER 30, 2024
Solar US solar looks set to come very close to almost match, or even surpass, the record it set in 2023 for new installations. That surge was led by large-scale solar, which data/analytics firm Wood Mackenzie projects will have grown even more in 2024 than in 2023, which itself was already a huge increase over the prior years total.
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Circle of Blue
MAY 7, 2025
That equals a decrease of 800,000 acre-feet, or roughly two-fifths of the Colorado River water used by Arizona in 2023. A wet winter in 2023 temporarily pulled the basin out of its tailspin, while up to $4 billion in federal funding for water conservation eased the path to using less. Luck and money intervened to relieve the pressure.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JULY 9, 2025
Advisory opinions interpret international law Unlike a trial or ruling in a specific case, AOs provide a court’s interpretation of binding international law in response to a question from an agency or government. In this instance, the governments of Chile and Colombia requested this AO in early 2023.
Union of Concerned Scientists
MAY 15, 2025
Court documents and related reporting suggest that the US government possesses evidence that the criminal scheme was indirectly paid for by ExxonMobil and that one of its lobbying firms, the Washington, DC-based DCI Group, provided a list of targets to a middleman linked to the hackers and sent the fruits of the hacking to the oil and gas company.
Union of Concerned Scientists
OCTOBER 29, 2024
A 2023 study by the US National Academies on Risk Analysis Methods for Nuclear War and Nuclear Terrorism , tasked to look at the likelihood and consequences of different nuclear war scenarios, found the information about the consequences incomplete. This lack of understanding is not limited to the public.
Union of Concerned Scientists
NOVEMBER 12, 2024
Globally, the circulation of the atmosphere, which governs where weather patterns set up, would change in intensity. In the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Sixth Assessment Report , published in 2023, scientific consensus stated that there was a “medium chance” the AMOC would collapse before the end of the 21 st century.
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