Legal Planet

JULY 24, 2025

It’s been a long time coming but nations of the world officially have a legal obligation to limit their emissions of greenhouse gases or else pay reparations for the harms of climate change. The case was filed in 2018 by Vanuatu, an archipelago in the Pacific Ocean that is especially vulnerable to human-caused climate change.

Climate Change

Legal Planet

MARCH 3, 2025

The fund would be established based upon this study, requiring the responsible polluters to contribute based on their market share of emissions between 1990-2024. This Climate Superfund Fund would be created in the State Treasury. Disadvantaged communities are hit first and worst by extreme weather events and climate-related disasters.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Electric vehicles (EVs) are a cleaner option than gasoline alternatives and are essential for reducing emissions that cause climate change and illnesses. Implementing strategies that result in better EV efficiency, right-sized range, and reduced VMT will result in savings of 1.5 Dunn et al., Dunn et al.,

Recycling

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2025

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.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 31, 2024

That’s because countries previously agreed under the Paris Agreement that, by the end of 2024, they would decide on the new quantum of climate finance for lower-income countries, building on the previous target of $100 billion/year. Climate vulnerable countries need funding to start flowing quickly.

Fossil Fuels

Inside Climate News

APRIL 24, 2025

By Bob Berwyn The latest anomaly in the climate system that cant be fully explained by researchers is a record annual jump in the global mean concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere measured in 2024.

Atmosphere

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Wetlands help mitigate climate change by trapping and storing carbon. While development, forestry, and climate change all contribute to wetland loss, draining for agriculture has been the single biggest cause since the 1800s. But wetland loss doesnt just increase flood riskit also drives climate change.

Clean Water Act

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 26, 2025

It was also a key recommendation in Maine’s 2024 Updated Climate Action Plan (that I helped develop as a member of the Energy Working Group) and the Maine Energy Plan the Governor’s Energy Office (GEO) submitted to the Legislature in January 2025. million per year between 2011 and 2022, according to a 2024 analysis commissioned by GEO.

Electricity

Law Columbia

MARCH 10, 2025

On March 29, 2023, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopted a resolution requesting an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on States obligations regarding climate change. ii) Peoples and individuals of the present and future generations affected by the adverse effects of climate change?

Climate Change

Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Big Oil had 695 lobby meetings with the federal government between January and September 2024. It’s no wonder that climate policies in Canada are moving forward at a snail’s pace. The fossil fuel lobby meets with public servants and elected officials more than 3.5 times per working day! Visit the webpage to learn more.

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Real Climate

MAY 12, 2025

Fjords and mountains in Northern Norway The Arctic Councils Arctic Monitoring and assessment Programme ( AMAP ) recently released a Summary for PolicyMakers Arctic Climate Change Update 2024. It is one of several stock taking exercises on the regional and global states of Earth’s climate.

Sea Level

A Greener Life

DECEMBER 28, 2024

Climate impacts contributed to overall poor cereal harvests The poor harvests should be seen in the light of record-breaking rain in the 2023/24 winter, which climate scientists say is exacerbated by climate change. Additionally, a wet July disrupted and delayed the harvesting of spring cereals.

Climate Change

Inside Climate News

DECEMBER 30, 2024

2024 was a year that might as well have been a decade. Heres what happened, as documented by Inside Climate News reporters.

Fossil Fuels

Inside Climate News

JANUARY 9, 2025

International agencies coordinate release of annual climate data to highlight the past years exceptionaland dangerousclimate conditions. By Bob Berwyn Nearly all major global climate datasets agree that, in 2024, human-caused global warming for the first time pushed Earths average surface temperature to more than 1.5

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 15, 2025

The alleged scheme involved hacking into the email accounts of staff members at UCS and several other public interest organizations, all of whom were working to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for their role in climate change. This was after the hacking investigation became public [Matthews, Strasburg, and Hope 2024]).

Fossil Fuels

Law Columbia

MARCH 12, 2025

UN Photo/ICJ-CIJ/ Frank van Beek This blog post is Part 3 of a three-part series highlighting the main legal arguments presented during the hearings of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the request for an advisory opinion regarding the obligations of States with respect to climate change.

Climate Change

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

As climate change accelerates, California faces increasingly severe threats to its communities, economy, and environment. To address the growing risks of climate change, California has developed a comprehensive adaptation and resilience framework.

Sea Level

HumanNature

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Guest Post by Elizabeth Diaz-Clark , 2024-2025 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Ph.D. Student in the Department of Biology and Graduate Degree Program in Ecology at Colorado State University Seeing is Believing What do you picture when you think of climate change? climate change is set to impact everyone.

Climate Change

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

DECEMBER 19, 2024

The NSAC staff retreat in West Virginia Theres no such thing as a quiet year when it comes to federal food and farm policy, and 2024 proved to be no exception! Farm Bill Reauthorization As of posting, we anticipate that Congress will finish 2024 with yet another extension of the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (2018 Farm Bill).

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The $76 million is the first round of Formula Grant funding under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), which could provide up to $300 million over the next three to five years; advancing ongoing efforts to protect public health, reducing methane emissions that contribute to climate change, and creating good-paying Pennsylvania jobs.

2024

Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 14, 2025

Prime Minister Trudeaus recent decision to prorogue Parliament and announce his upcoming resignation may have left you wondering about what this could mean for climate change policy. All political leaders should be bolder on climate. Time is ticking!

Politics

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2025

This past week, I attended the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) meeting in Hangzhou, China. In previous posts, Ive explained what the IPCC is, why this assessment cycle is crucial , and highlighted its role in climate action. Whats Next for the IPCC?

Climate Change

Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Canadians recognize that fossil fuels are causing the climate crisis and want to see governments act to phase out the production and use of coal, oil and gas. Oil and gas companies have spent decades lying to Canadians about their role in driving climate change and the unnatural disasters that were all experiencing.

Fossil Fuels

ESA

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

ESA is crafting official comments in response to the release of the First Draft of the Biodiversity and Climate Change Assessment , a congressionally mandated initiative led by the U.S. Learn more about the Biodiversity and Climate Change Assessment here. The deadline to complete the ESA form is December 6, 2024.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Interested in understanding how climate change affects our groundwater and what it means for the environment and economy? Join PA Sea Grant and the Department of Environmental Protection for the upcoming Pennsylvania Lake Erie Environmental Forum webinar on Groundwater and Climate Change on November 19 from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m.

Climate Change

A Greener Life

JUNE 10, 2025

By Anders Lorenzen New forest loss data has revealed that in 2024, wildfires have overtaken deforestation activities, such as industrial logging, as the primary reason behind forest losses. Graph showing the rapid increase in forest loss between 2023 and 2024. In 2024, fires burned five times the amount of forest they did in 2023.

2024

Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Climate change is propelling these weather events to grow faster and stronger than ever before. Other climate change impacts are accelerating as well. Many scientists thought these high ocean temperatures would be years away, but the realities of climate change are not a distant threat.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

MARCH 27, 2025

13 years later, the plug-in hybrid Volt is no more and the LEAF is revamped and a relatively minor player, while the Tesla Model Y was the best-selling vehicle in the world in 2024, outselling the Toyota Corolla. And what would mass adoption look like for the then-relatively distant year of 2025 in California?

2012

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

A survey I conducted of 2024 sponsorships across the NBA, NFL, MLB, NHL, MLS, and WNBA revealed more than 60 sponsorship deals with high-polluting companies. The “ Foul Ball ” survey was published by the UCLA Emmett Institute on Climate Change & the Environment in September. A lot of that goes on in American sports.

Clean Water Act

ESA

OCTOBER 30, 2024

By Astrid Caldas Target 8 of the Convention on Biological Diversity’s Kumming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KMGBF) is to “Minimize the impacts of climate change on biodiversity and build resilience.” link to [link] Cover of the book titled ‘Biodiversity and Climate Change.

Climate Change

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Taking into consideration all the bills presented throughout the year, the overall veto rate for the 2024 session was 16% out of 1,200 total bills per CalMatters. The 2024 veto rate is on par with previous years.

Law

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2025

This past week, I attended the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) meeting in Hangzhou, China. In previous posts, Ive explained what the IPCC is, why this assessment cycle is crucial , and highlighted its role in climate action. Whats Next for the IPCC?

Climate Change

Law Columbia

MARCH 25, 2025

Malaysia is at high risk from the effects of climate change. The subsequent 2023-2024 El Nio event proved even deadlier, with 5 fatalities out of 127 reported cases of heat-related illnesses. Linking legislation addressing climate change with a states constitution is possible.

Climate Change

Law Columbia

JANUARY 21, 2025

Today, the Sabin Center published a report that looks back on climate litigation developments since the beginning of 2024. The report draws from the Sabin Centers United States and Global Climate Litigation databases and monthly litigation updates. It begins with a brief overview of the growth in climate litigation in 2024.

2024

Law Columbia

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Today, the Sabin Center published a report that looks back on climate litigation developments since the beginning of 2024. The report draws from the Sabin Centers United States and Global Climate Litigation databases and monthly litigation updates. It begins with a brief overview of the growth in climate litigation in 2024.

2024

Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

Thats why I was happy to partner with Environmental Defence and use my platform to promote renewable energy, action against climate change, and our most valuable resource: wide open untouched, healthy nature. For winter athletes, climate change poses existential risks to doing what they love.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

On February 21, the Pittsburgh-based Three Rivers Waterkeeper , a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting the water quality of the Allegheny, Monongahela, and Ohio Rivers, announced the release of the 2024 Swim Guide Report. coli contamination. . -- Elevated E. coli on nearly every sampling event.

2024