Enviromental Defense

APRIL 19, 2024

Cyclical climatic systems like El Niño are a factor, but the science is clear: Alberta’s climate is changing and water scarcity will be an ongoing issue as a result of climate change, which is primarily driven by the combustion of fossil fuels.

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Clean Energy Law

JANUARY 18, 2024

Green , and James Bee On 17 January 2024, the government launched the Critical Imports and Supply Chains Strategy (the strategy), which aims to safeguard UK supplies of goods including medicine, minerals, and semiconductors. Davies , Michael D. What Is a Critical Import? 3 Critical Imports and Supply Chains Strategy

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 15, 2024

Since starting with Environmental Defence in January, I’ve been grappling with an updated version of those song lyrics: “Why we must talk about climate change when everything is burning?” Given the human cost of climate change, you might think that talking about it while it is ravishing our nation would be easy.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 26, 2024

Toronto | Traditional territories of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishinaabeg, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat – Environmental Defence experts react to the 2024 Ontario budget, released today. The post Environmental Defence Experts React to the 2024 Ontario Budget appeared first on Environmental Defence.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 31, 2022

The US House Oversight and Reform Committee kicked off its investigation of the fossil fuel industry’s decades-long climate change disinformation campaign last fall by inviting top executives from BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil and Shell to testify about their role and subpoenaing their companies for internal documents. Rick Scott.

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Clean Energy Law

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Lamb KC and Stephanie Forrest On 7 February 2024, the Supreme Court of New Zealand decided to allow a novel climate change claim to proceed to trial. Certain evidence presented at trial, including evidence as to the attribution of climate change to each of the respondents’ activities, would be necessary.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

PennFuture celebrated 25 years of fighting climate change and industrial pollution by holding anniversary celebrations in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia to honor seven Pennsylvanians for their contributions to restoring and protecting the environment. He retired in January 2024. from Villanova University School of Law.

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Legal Planet

MAY 13, 2024

In his four years in office, Donald Trump rolled back essentially every existing federal policy to limit climate change. The earliest action covered is Biden’s rejoining the Paris Agreement; the most recent is a burst of final actions taken around Earth Day 2024. March 6, 2024. March 28, 2024. April 4, 2024.

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Law Columbia

MAY 15, 2024

The judges of the Court’s Grand Chamber found that Switzerland was in breach of its positive obligations to protect the health, well-being and quality of life of Swiss citizens from the impacts of climate change. Could this ruling catalyse the rapid cross-cutting action that is urgently needed to combat climate change?

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Law and Environment

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Yesterday, Massachusetts Climate Chief Melissa Hoffer issued a report detailing how “to implement the Healey-Driscoll Administration’s whole-of-government approach to addressing the climate crisis.” Center Environmental Justice in Climate Policy and Program Implementation.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 4, 2024

Youth4ClimateAction in Republic of Korea We are in a critical decade for action on climate change. National governments are the most important systemic actors in the governance of climate action, primarily because they are the only actors with the ability to adopt economy-wide decarbonization measures.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 10, 2024

The three much-awaited judgments issued by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on April 9, 2024 are truly historic and unprecedented. Switzerland , the Grand Chamber established that climate change is “one of the most pressing issues of our times” and poses a threat to human rights. 410-414 and 449-451).

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 4, 2023

Following meetings between President Biden and Prime Minister Trudeau, Canada’s government pledges increased spending on the Great Lakes. Jurisdiction of the Kanienʼkehá꞉ka (Mohawk) territory of Akwesasne is shared three ways — a council elected by the Canadian government, a council elected by the U.S. Find all the work here.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 27, 2024

New analysis from Environmental Defence reveals that despite federal government promises, funding to the fossil fuel and petrochemical industries remains high Ottawa | Traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People – New analysis released today by Environmental Defence reveals Canada’s federal government provided at least $18.6

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

This is an integral step towards cleaning our air and reducing climate-warming emissions. California’s fleet of commercial trucks and buses is responsible for an outsized impact on air quality and climate change. There are more than 1.8 pollution from vehicles. It’s time to electrify trucks and you can help.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The situation deeply concerns Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold for the 2024 elections. State and federal governments have largely abandoned election workers.” Although the United States avoided widespread violence in 2022, the 2024 election will bring more division and heightened tensions,” the Brennan Center said.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 3, 2024

The federal government is growing larger and less constitutionally accountable—even to the President—every year.” The first Trump administration’s approach to climate change was to ignore it, by deleting mentions of it on the White House website and erasing EPA’s public-facing pages laying out climate science.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Looking forward to 2024, we expect the federal government will make progress on efforts that are already underway and deliver real results. Here’s our list of the top 10 predictions for the environment in 2024 (in no particular order): 1. You can read more about this issue here.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Germany that the federal government must adopt an immediate action program (‘Sofortprogramm’) under the Federal Climate Change Act (CCA). The program is intended to ensure compliance with the annual emission targets for the building and transportation sectors for the years 2024 to 2030.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Organic Transitions Program Deadline: March 7, 2024 The Organic Transitions Program (ORG) is a competitive grant program that supports the integration of research, higher education, and extension programs to address the challenges of transitioning to organic agriculture. Apply here. Apply here ; more details here.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 27, 2024

That seems to be the Florida playbook for dealing with the climate crisis facing Floridians in the form of rising sea levels and deadly temperatures. The only thing worse than a wet heat is being governed by climate change deniers in a wet heat. If signed by Gov. Senate Bill 1624 , by Sen.

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E2 Law Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Addressing these issues will be at the forefront for various government entities in 2024. Climate Change and Ongoing Regulations – Climate change issues, such as rising sea levels, continue to affect developers and commercial property owners in Florida.

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Environmental Law Centre

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

1] This is the stark introduction to a Government of Alberta announcement. The post Drought Watch 2024: Wetlands & Drought Management in Alberta appeared first on Environmental Law Centre. “This winter, snowpack is below average, rivers are at record low levels and multiple reservoirs remain well below capacity.”[1]

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 4, 2024

In part one of this series we introduced you to the huge role that the Canadian financial sector plays in exacerbating the climate crisis. Climate change could have some very significant negative impacts on the Canadian economy, and therefore your money. In this blog, we’ll discuss how climate change poses a risk to finance.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 29, 2023

Photo by Mathias Reding on Unsplash Climate change litigation has finally reached the world’s highest court. 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 the obligations of States with respect to climate change.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

This is according to data from the European Union’s climate change monitoring satellite Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) which was released on Thursday (8th of February 2024). degrees C above pre-industrial. again over the next 12-month period.

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Acoel

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Posted on February 13, 2024 by Peter Lehner The Farm Bill is the most significant environmental law Congress will address this year. This third of four blogs explains how it can help American agriculture be more resilient and climate-friendly. Congress could better target these programs to address climate change.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Climate change, one of the defining challenges of our time, demands multifaceted approaches to drive action and accountability. Two central players in this arena are climate litigators and United Nations (UN) climate negotiators.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Likewise, the country has started to implement programs to mitigate GHG emissions and to promote REDD+ projects , all intending to achieve climate-related goals. Colombia ’s Legal Climate Framework Colombia’s climate change laws are extensive and align with its open commitment to fight climate change and its devastating effects.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

How will the nations that have ratified UNESCO’s World Heritage Convention respond to the threat climate change represents to iconic natural and historic sites across the globe? If the Committee agrees, then it will be the first time any World Heritage site has been added to the In Danger list because of climate change.

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HumanNature

APRIL 16, 2024

Guest Post by Srijesh Pradhan , 2023-2024 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. These catastrophic events underscore a disturbing trend: wildfires are becoming more frequent and severe, largely due to climate change. The WUI poses significant challenges due to the high rate of structure loss within these zones.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The Premier had made it very clear in past statements that she is biased against renewable energy, and instead favours projects that cause pollution, limit Alberta’s future economic growth, and contribute to global climate change.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 24, 2024

By Anders Lorenzen President Biden used Earth Day to ramp up his administrations commitment on tackling climate change, protecting the environment and investing in clean energy technologies. Biden said: “I will put tens of thousands of young people to work at the forefront of our climate resilience and clean energy future.”

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Clean Energy Law

MARCH 6, 2024

Green , James Bee , and Kevin Mak On February 15, 2024, Bursa Malaysia Berhad (Bursa Malaysia), Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX), The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET), and Singapore Exchange (SGX Group) released a joint statement announcing their collaboration on the development of the ASEAN-Interconnected Sustainability Ecosystem (ASEAN-ISE).

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 8, 2024

State climate policy is a big deal. State governments began cutting emissions at a time when the federal government was essentially doing nothing about climate change. it’s not for nothing that 2023 has been called a banner year for state climate action. Who knew cheese was such a pollution problem?)

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 10, 2024

While it is too early to say how much of this freak weather event is due to climate change, scientists are saying there’s no doubt that the increase and severity of extreme weather events around the world is due to the burning of fossil fuels. million hectares of winter wheat for the 2024 harvest versus 4.5

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Nanotech

MARCH 6, 2024

Department of Energy (DOE) will host the Clean Fuels & Products Shot™ Summit on April 8, 2024, from 11:00 a.m. EDT), and April 9, 2024, from 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

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