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The ICJ’s Advisory Opinion on Climate Change: What Happens Now?

Law Columbia

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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One Last Climate Warning in New IPCC Report: ‘Now or Never’

Inside Climate News

By Bob Berwyn Whatever words and phrases the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change may have been parsing late into Sunday night, its new report , issued Monday, boils down to yet another dire scientific warning. Greenhouse gas emissions need to peak by 2025 to limit global warming close to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7

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Can We Still Limit Global Warming to 1.5°C? Here’s What the Latest Science Says

Union of Concerned Scientists

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is set to release its synthesis of the Sixth Assessment Report early next week. Among the thousands of questions the report addresses by summarizing the latest climate research, one of the most hotly debated is this: Is it still possible to limit future global warming to 1.5°C

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Recent developments on carbon dioxide removal: Increasing policy support but governance issues remain

Law Columbia

Governments are, it seems, beginning to listen to the growing chorus of scientists who have warned that deploying CDR is essential to avoid catastrophic climate change. Many governments are beginning to include at least some form of CDR in their portfolio of climate policies and international commitments.

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We are not reaching 1.5ºC earlier than previously thought

Real Climate

Of all the troubling headlines emerging from the release of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) WG1 report, one warning will surely dominate headlines in the next days and weeks: Earth is likely to reach the crucial 1.5? the year on which the 20-year period 2025-2044 is centred, as stated in Table 4.5

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Real-time space observations can now keep watch over ‘super emitter’ power plants

Frontiers

Under the Paris Agreement, countries will need to track greenhouse gas emissions at the level of individual ‘super emitters’, such as power plants, in close-to-real time. Countries signed up to the 2015 Paris Agreement have committed themselves to keep the rise in average global temperature ‘well below’ 2 °C.

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Election 2024: Climate Action vs. Radical Deregulation

Legal Planet

This agenda was facilitated by the Heritage Foundation—the conservative think tank that also has a dark money-fueled activist wing called Heritage Action —under the name Project 2025: Presidential Transition Project. Gunasekara is a Visiting Fellow in the Center for Energy, Climate, and Environment at The Heritage Foundation.

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