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Building a More Resilient, Just City

Academy of Natural Sciences

As extreme storms become more ubiquitous, Philadelphia is among numerous cities grappling with flooding issues against the backdrop of aging infrastructure, rising sea levels and more extreme precipitation events. Their work is an important part of the City’s long term commitment to reduce citywide carbon emissions 80% by 2050.

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Environmental Law: Government and Public Policy Towards the Environment

Environmental Science

Environmental law, or sometimes known as environmental and natural resources law, is a term used to explain regulations, statutes, local, national and international legislation, and treaties designed to protect the environment from damage and to explain the legal consequences of such damage towards governments or private entities or individuals (1).

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3 Questions to Ask After the New IPCC Climate Report

Ocean Conservancy

We can protect coastal habitats, like mangroves and sea grasses, which can serve as critical tools to guard communities from intensifying storms while also safely storing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. When thinking about what you can do, it might be helpful to ask three questions: 1) What should the government be doing?

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From Research to Action: The Growing Impact of Attribution Science

Union of Concerned Scientists

By comparing these two data sets, scientists can determine the probability that human activities are responsible for observed changes in temperature, precipitation patterns, sea level rise, and other climate change indicators. Climate source attribution studies can inform strategies to reduce carbon emissions.

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Stranded Assets v. the Social Cost of Carbon: The Tortured Economics of Climate Change

Vermont Law

If there is one thing the fossil fuel industry, the government, and climate change activists might agree on it is this: in the end it all comes down to money. By Max Krieger. If there is one thing the fossil fuel industry, the government, and climate change activists might agree on it is this: in the end it all comes down to money.

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The limits of adaptation

Science Blogs

The release of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere by the burning of fossil fuels is, conceiveably, the most important environmental issue in the world today. — "Costs and benefits of carbon dioxide," Nature , May 3, 1979. The limits of adaptation. And along with the economic costs will come social and political side effects.

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Ask a Scientist: Calling Out the Companies Responsible for Western Wildfires

Union of Concerned Scientists

They found that 48 percent of the increase in the region’s fire-friendly conditions since 1901—specifically drier land and vegetation—can be traced to the 88 companies’ carbon emissions. They also calculated that the companies’ emissions have been responsible for 37 percent of the burned forest area in the region since 1986.