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Making Polluters Pay for Climate Consequences

Legal Planet

The dramatic increase in extreme weather events has been wreaking havoc on states across the country, from devastating fires, floods, and droughts to rising sea levels. 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.

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Our New Research Says the Solid Earth Can Help Protect the Antarctic Ice Sheet—Only if We Cut Emissions Now

Union of Concerned Scientists

This post was co-authored with Natalya Gomez , Associate Professor, Canada Research Chair in Geodynamics of Ice sheet – Sea level interactions at McGill University. As it melts it contributes to sea level rise, causing harm to coastal and island communities around the world.

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Delays and Disagreements: The IPCC’s Struggle to Stay on Course

Union of Concerned Scientists

The report, initially scoped in 2024 and planned for completion by 2027, aims to provide technical guidance on measuring, reporting, and verifying emissions removals from CDR technologies. Fossil fuels, which are central to mitigation discussions but were largely avoided, reflecting ongoing political tensions.

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Delays and Disagreements: The IPCC’s Struggle to Stay on Course

Union of Concerned Scientists

The report, initially scoped in 2024 and planned for completion by 2027, aims to provide technical guidance on measuring, reporting, and verifying emissions removals from CDR technologies. Fossil fuels, which are central to mitigation discussions but were largely avoided, reflecting ongoing political tensions.

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$10 Billion Climate Bond Heads to the California Ballot

Legal Planet

After much anticipation and deliberation, the California legislature approved a $10 billion climate bond measure just before the summer recess began on July 3, 2024. billion to combat sea level rise. California voters will now have the opportunity to approve or reject the bond measure on the November ballot.

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Unseen and Unprotected: The Ongoing Struggle of Climate Refugees in the United States

Vermont Law

Unprecedented flooding in Barbados and Brazil in May 2024 displaced thousands, while floods in Pakistan in 2022 displaced approximately 8 million people. that country because of persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion.

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Greenland’s Ice Sheet Collapse Could Be Closer Than We Think

Scientific American

By Jeffery DelViscio edited by Jen Schwartz & Seth Fletcher Expedition members Caleb Walcott-George and Arnar Pall Gíslason use a hand drill to pull rock cores out of an outcropping, called a nunatak on the Greenland ice sheet in May 2024. If the entire Greenland ice sheet melted, global sea levels would rise by about 24 feet.

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