Law Columbia

MARCH 18, 2025

2024 was the hottest year on record , and the planets 10 warmest years since 1850 have occurred in the past decade. Scientists have identified a number of land- and ocean-based carbon dioxide removal (CDR) approaches. Marine CDR approaches appear to hold great potential for uptake and sequestration of carbon dioxide.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2025

The main objectives included: Approving and adopting outlines for the three major working group reports and an additional methodology report on carbon dioxide removal (CDR). The Goals of the Hangzhou Plenary The agenda for this Plenary was packed with essential tasks shaping the next IPCC reports in this cycle.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2025

The main objectives included: Approving and adopting outlines for the three major working group reports and an additional methodology report on carbon dioxide removal (CDR). The Goals of the Hangzhou Plenary The agenda for this Plenary was packed with essential tasks shaping the next IPCC reports in this cycle.

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Ocean Conservancy

DECEMBER 12, 2023

As another year comes to a close, I am reflecting on the incredible progress Ocean Conservancy has made in 2023 towards a healthy, resilient ocean future. For better or worse, this is the nature of ocean conservation work—sometimes we hit roadblocks, but it’s a reminder of why this work is so critically important.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 5, 2022

Human activity adds more than 50 gigatons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere each year. New Solid Carbon technology might be able to lock climate-warming carbon dioxide below ocean bedrock. Large-scale solutions are urgently needed. Photo credit: Francisco Anzola, Flickr CC BY 2.0. By Dr Kate Moran.

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Environmental News Bits

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Sept 12, 2024, 2-3:30 pm CDTWatch the livecast and download the speaker slides. The Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI) and the World Resources Institute (WRI) invite you to a briefing about effective policy-making for carbon dioxide removal (CDR).

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Law Columbia

MAY 24, 2024

On May 21, 2024, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) released its long-awaited advisory opinion on climate change. There was little discussion, either in the written statements or at the oral hearing, of so-called “marine geoengineering” activities that seek to use the ocean to combat climate change.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 11, 2024

degrees Celsius warmer than in the 1850-1900 pre-industrial period, when humans began burning fossil fuels on an industrial scale, pumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. This warms the surface waters in the eastern Pacific Ocean and contributes to higher global temperatures. What’s in store for 2024?

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Law Columbia

MAY 22, 2024

On May 21, 2024, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) delivered a long-awaited Advisory Opinion on climate change and international law. From COSIS to ITLOS The ocean and climate are inextricably linked. On the other hand, the ocean plays an important role in combating climate change.

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Ocean Conservancy

JUNE 13, 2023

This blog was written by Michele Conrad, advisor to Ocean Conservancy on achieving priority fish conservation and ecosystem goals on the West Coast. As a former state ocean policy manager, Michele represented the State of Washington on the Pacific Fishery Management Council for 15 years before starting her own consultancy.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 5, 2024

His work focuses on the legal frameworks governing ocean-based carbon dioxide removal, at both the national and international levels. Ashwin graduated from Columbia Law School in 2024 with an LL.M. This month, Ashwin Murthy joins the Sabin Center as a Negative Emissions Fellow.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 6, 2024

The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) issued an advisory opinion on April 21, 2024 in response to a request submitted by the Commission of Small Island States on Climate Change and International Law (COSIS). 52-54) and acknowledged the critical role the ocean plays in regulating the climate system (para.

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Last week I had the tremendous honor of providing expert testimony on the ocean effects of climate change to the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) in Hamburg, Germany. Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 7, 2024

Creator: George Stoyle The oceans absorb large quantities of the carbon dioxide emitted by human activities. This “sink” function is so significant that, until 1957, one objection to a causal link between anthropogenic emissions and global warming was that the oceans would absorb most of the excess CO2, thus breaking this link.

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The Energy Law

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Notably, the FYs 2023 and 2024 Environmental Studies Programs seek to identify potential effects on the human and marine environments from potential migration and leaks, fugitive CO 2 emission concerns, and cumulative impacts surrounding the largely uncharted territory of regulating long-term offshore CCS.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 19, 2024

Until April 2024, Farmer held shares in the fossil fuel giants Shell and BP, each worth more than £100,000. The GWPF – a group founded to contradict established climate science – has in the past expressed the view that carbon dioxide has been mischaracterised as pollution, when in fact it is a “benefit to the planet”.

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Last week I had the tremendous honor of providing expert testimony on the ocean effects of climate change to the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) in Hamburg, Germany. Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails.

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Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 22, 2023

Utilities Commission (NCUC) to “take all reasonable steps” to achieve a 70% reduction in carbon dioxide ( CO 2 ) emissions from electric generating units (EGUs) by 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality for the utility generation system by 2050. January 22, 2023. A 2021 North Carolina law requires the N.C.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 3, 2021

By Ad Crable, Chesapeake Bay Journal Pennsylvania is ideally suited to help the nation fight global warming by becoming a leader in the effort to capture and store emissions of carbon dioxide, state officials say. In the battle to slow global warming, carbon dioxide is the chief target. Studies by the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

By Adrienne Berard, Penn State News Trees are struggling to sequester heat-trapping carbon dioxide (CO2) in warmer, drier climates, meaning that they may no longer serve as a solution for offsetting humanity’s carbon footprint as the planet continues to warm, according to a new study led by Penn State researchers. “We

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ESA

MARCH 20, 2023

Congress Senate Commerce Committee to consider ocean debris legislation. This request marks the start of the appropriations process for fiscal year 2024 (FY24), which starts Oct. billion for the agency authorized in FY 2024 the CHIPS Act and Science Act. billion for NSF in FY 2024. This number is less than the $15.7

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Acoel

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The willingness of the two potential rivals for the 2024 White House to cooperate in meeting the immediate threat of Ian is admirable. New data from NASA, the New York Times reports , revealed that warm ocean waters fueled Hurricane Ian to become one of the most powerful storms to strike the U.S.

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ESA

DECEMBER 20, 2021

This bill reauthorizes the Coral Reef Conservation Act of 2000 through 2024, directs NOAA to provide block grants to states to support state coral reef management and restoration and establishes a National Coral Reef Management Fellowship Program, among other provisions. 6180 ) to incentivize removing invasive lionfish from the oceans.

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ESA

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

He is a career NOAA employee who most recently worked as the director of NOAA’s National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science. ESC – FY 2024 Funding Request (Aug. NOAA – Notice of Matching Fund Opportunity for Ocean and Coastal Mapping and Request for Partnership Proposals. Thur will start his new duties in early October.

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ESA

AUGUST 29, 2022

Members of the House Science Committee urge the White House to increase its requested spending for the Department of Energy Office of Science in FY 2024 budget request. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration receives $500 million for climate and weather research and forecasting. billion for FY 2024. International.

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 9, 2025

Among the topics up for discussion was the application of the London Convention and Protocol to certain ocean-based climate change mitigation activities. It is assumed, but has not yet been scientifically proven, that some portion of the carbon ends up stored in the deep ocean and remains sequestered there for hundreds to thousands of years.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

2024 will be a year to remember. The Earth is warming The burning of fossil fuels has led to an increase in pollutants such as carbon dioxide in the atmosphere since the industrial revolution began in the 1800s. As a result of fossil fuel-driven climate change, it’s on track to be the warmest year in recorded history.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 14, 2025

In the last sixty years, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has grown 100 times faster than it did at the close of the last ice age. For example, warmer air and oceans are contributing to more intense hurricanes , with record-breaking amounts of rain and rapidly intensifying windspeeds.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

This blog post was authored by 2024 Sabin Center Summer Intern, Arpana Giritharan, with input and supervision from Johanna Lovecchio, Director of Program Design for Climate Action and Adjunct Professor at Columbia Climate School, and Romany Webb, Deputy Director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 27, 2024

Solar power has been the fastest growing source of electricity in the world for 19 years in a row according to Ember’s Global Electricity Review 2024. The shift, combined with the huge shift from ultra-dirty goal to more-moderately dirty gas helped cut our power sector carbon dioxide emissions by 41 percent from a peak in 2007.

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Law Columbia

MAY 1, 2025

The second Trump Administrations first 100 days dealing with carbon management and negative emissions can be summed up in one word incoherence. However, other steps taken have meaningfully undermined federal government policy and expertise on carbon removal. For example, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act provided for $3.5

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 13, 2025

Last week, NOAA announced that it will no longer be updating this dataset beyond 2024. In 2024, the hottest year on record following on a decade of hottest years on record, the global annual average temperature was about 1.5C (2.6 F) above pre-industrial (1850-1900) levels. billion in total.

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ESA

JULY 1, 2022

At stake was the ability to reduce carbon emissions as written in the ‘Clean Power Plan’ regulation under the auspices of the Clean Air Act that gives the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) power to regulate “the best system of reducing emissions.” The ocean takes center stage at a U.N. billion, a $908.6 million increase.

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ESA

MARCH 6, 2023

1213 ) reversing a provision of the Fiscal Year 2023 omnibus spending bill preventing the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration from drafting new protections for the North Atlantic right whale. The commission will share its findings by the NSB’s May 2024 meeting. 20, 2022) ESC – FY 2024 Funding Request (Aug.

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ESA

AUGUST 16, 2021

However, the world could avoid the more extreme scenarios in the report if governments sharply reduce carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions. Top Priorities : Coastal resiliency; healthy oceans investments; modernizing the National Weather Service. Commerce, Science and Transportation. Allocation : $83 billion.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 29, 2025

Environmental groups and two blue states appeals from the October 2020 decision were still pending when the Biden administration BLM adopted a new waste prevention rule in April 2024. In August 2024, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals then dismissed their appeals as moot and vacated the October 2020 decision vacating the 2016 rule.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2025

A former member of Congress from Long Island, New York, with scant regulatory experience, Zeldin promised to defer to the research of the scientists on whether climate change made oceans more acidic. When asked if he wanted fossil fuels to come back big time, Wright responded, Absolutely. That was obviously lost on him.

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