Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 17, 2025

The planned cuts to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), according to news reports , are not the equivalent of trimming but of sawing a whole tree down to the ground. The carbon dioxide data on Mauna Loa constitute the longest record of direct measurements of CO2 in the atmosphere.

Carbon Dioxide

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 7, 2025

trillion in flood mitigation value alone , a value that has grown more critical with sea level rise and increased frequency and intensity of storms and wildfires. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), commercial and recreational fisheries provide 1.7 trillion and $2.9 million jobs.

Endangered Species Act

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 24, 2025

A government website housed on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) website–climate.gov–had “a rich trove of climate data and information,” as my colleague Marc Alessi said. We were braced for this website to shut down, because the Trump administration has laid off many of the federal workers who maintained it.

Politics

Legal Planet

AUGUST 30, 2023

The threat of flooding and erosion is increasing throughout the United States as a warming atmosphere makes precipitation events more extreme and contributes to sea level rise. Inadequate disclosure laws have serious consequences, considering the high cost of flood damage recovery. In fact, the U.S.

Sea Level

Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

are used all over the world, based on calculations that quantify the effects of physical mechanisms and the way different parts of the atmosphere are connected to each other. The physics-based models describe how energy flows through the atmosphere and ocean, as well as how the forces from different air masses push against each other.

Sea Level

Law and Environment

AUGUST 9, 2021

Here are a number of the lowlights: It is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land. Widespread and rapid changes in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere and biosphere have occurred. My emphasis.).

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The latest science shows clearly that the infrastructure in Baltimore will be taxed by sea level rise, extreme heat, and extended droughts. While weather is always variable, a stable climate helps us safeguard against the devastating impacts of extreme weather events, sea-level rise, and disruptions to essential services.

Climate Change

Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Today, climate change is the central, though by no means the only, concern in environmental law. The earliest mentions of these terms in the law review literature came in the late 1970s, and only one of the pre-1985 discussions took a comprehensive look at the problem. Third, there was so much else going on in environmental law.

Carbon Dioxide

Real Climate

JULY 25, 2021

Also the European Climate Research Alliance ( ECRA ) is relevant with collaborative programmes on the Arctic, high-impact events, changes to the hydrological cycle and sea level. More emphasis on methods and tools than actionable information. This is true even if the models themselves were perfect.

Climate Change

Legal Planet

JUNE 4, 2021

Massachusetts pointed to the loss of coastal land from sea-level rise, while the Urgenda judgments ultimately concluded that there is a serious risk that climate change will cause the human rights of people in the Netherlands to not be met. First, who can stand as a plaintiff?

Carbon Dioxide

Law Columbia

JUNE 6, 2024

The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) issued an advisory opinion on April 21, 2024 in response to a request submitted by the Commission of Small Island States on Climate Change and International Law (COSIS). 157 as used in para. 52, 54, 60 and 68).

Law

Law Columbia

APRIL 24, 2023

Applicable Law to the ITLOS Advisory Opinion The applicable law for the ITLOS advisory proceedings is determined by Article 293 of UNCLOS. b) to protect and preserve the marine environment in relation to climate change impacts, including ocean warming and sea level rise, and ocean acidification?

Climate Change

Law Columbia

MAY 22, 2024

On May 21, 2024, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) delivered a long-awaited Advisory Opinion on climate change and international law. To facilitate discussion and the exchange of ideas, the Sabin Center’s Climate Law Blog and Verfassungsblog are partnering on a blog symposium on the ITLOS opinion.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 24, 2023

In the 1960s, scientists were warning that the burning of fossil fuels was releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, which could have catastrophic consequences for the planet. States and local governments are suing for damages So why are states and local governments suing the fossil fuel industry now?

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

AUGUST 10, 2021

So here’s the key question: How much more carbon are we going to load into the atmosphere? There are a lot of uncertainties at this point, but the biggest one is within our own hands. Every 1000 gigatons of carbon translates into about 0.5 °C C of warming. Download as PDF.

Paris Agreement

Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

trillion Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) rollout, the need for this long overdue investment in climate resilience is crystal clear. For ocean advocates like me who have been tracking the $1.5 In 2023 alone, countless instances of climate-related water system failures have made headlines.

Ocean

Academy of Natural Sciences

JULY 30, 2021

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. chance of happening in any given year, respectively. more moisture.

Sea Level

Physics World

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Since March 2018, a team led by Licai Deng from the National Astronomical Observatories of China, Chinese Academy of Sciences, has been monitoring cloudiness, night-sky brightness, air temperature, humidity, wind speed and direction at “Summit C” on Saishiteng Mountain, which lies some 4200 m above sea level.

Atmosphere

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JANUARY 17, 2024

The Northern Great Plains chapter notes that current water rights laws in much of the region make adaptation especially difficult. Sea level rise is also important in the region, causing saltwater intrusion and salinization. Other risks include increasing tropical cyclones and sea level rise.

Sea Level

Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

What is Environmental Law? Humanity has been aware of its environment far longer than there have been laws to protect environments. However, the term “environmental law” does not just cover government legislation. These are not “laws” per se but act as such within a regulatory framework. Useful Environmental Law Terms.

Government

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Even before adoption of the 1992 Framework Convention, the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) had proposed an “International Insurance Pool” to pay vulnerable countries based on observed sea level rise. The first explicit use of the term L&D was in the 2007 Bali Action Plan , in a section on enhanced action for adaptation.

Climate Change

Greenbuilding Law

JANUARY 21, 2024

In this consideration of Danone’s motion to dismiss the complaint, some are troubled that the court began with this “factual background” saying that in its order, it is taken as true for the purposes of this motion, “Human activities have increased the concentration of carbon dioxide, or CO2, in the atmosphere, driving climate change.

Carbon Dioxide

Law Columbia

JUNE 16, 2022

Columbia Law School’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), and the Initiative on Climate Risk and Resilience Law today released an Electric Resilience Toolkit to support policymakers and stakeholders working on issues around electric sector regulation and climate resilience planning.

Electricity

Vermont Law

APRIL 20, 2014

These reports emerge approximately every seven years and contain updated information as the result of increasingly more advanced climate models as well as a better understanding of the atmosphere as a whole. The scientific information presented in WGI highlights regions that may be affected by certain atmospheric phenomena.

Climate Change

Environment Next

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

auto sector carbon emissions) was to address the less-direct causal chain between atmospheric greenhouse gases and sea level rise in Massachusetts. Furthermore, the court stressed the importance of citizen suits to holding relatively small polluters accountable under the country’s environmental laws.

Clean Air Act

Vermont Law

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Fighting climate change takes cold hard cash, spent on everything from mitigating the carbon already in the atmosphere, to transitioning to alternative fuel sources, to treating the symptoms and externalities we are already seeing. Vermont Journal of Environmental Law. This theory is called the “Social Cost of Carbon” or SCC. [4].

Climate Change

Law Columbia

MAY 29, 2024

The Advisory Opinion handed down by the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) on 21 May 2024 is truly remarkable. Under the United Nations Convention of the Law of the Sea ( UNCLOS ), States must now take all necessary measures to prevent, reduce and control GHG emissions. 4) of UNCLOS. under Arts.

Paris Agreement

Legal Planet

MAY 19, 2024

(credit: PBI Actuarial Consultants) Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, in coordination with an equally myopic and partisan Florida Legislature, has approved new state legislation ( HB 1645 ) that eliminates the term “climate change” from numerous existing Florida statutes that former Republican Governor Charlie Crist signed into law in 2008.

Climate Change

Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

Each month, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP (APKS) and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. A number of different parties had lined up on either side of the issue of whether EPA’s stay was lawful. and non-U.S. United States , No.

2017

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 6, 2023

Efforts to restore natural flows of freshwater into the Florida Everglades are helping to slow the incursion of mangroves into this important freshwater ecosystem as sea levels rise. At the conference, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) law professor Robin Kundis Craig called for anticipatory adaptation policy planning.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 10, 2023

Today the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released its annual report on billion-dollar weather and climate-related disasters in the United States, which tells a grimly familiar story. Wherever you live in the United States, you were undoubtedly affected by these disasters, directly or indirectly.

Climate Change

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The way to do this that now looks most promising would be to spray a fine mist of reflective aerosols in the upper atmosphere. All research is governed, mostly through normal processes of peer review, research-program management, and compliance with applicable laws and regulations. to 1%) of incoming sunlight.

Climate Change

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Implementation of these new laws will be the true test of that statement, but they provide an exciting starting point. Prior to this new law, the state was required by law to ensure that statewide greenhouse gas emissions be reduced to at least 40% below the 1990 level by 2030. Climate Change Mitigation.

2021

Greenbuilding Law

JUNE 5, 2022

With proposed federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions by the Securities and Exchange Commission requiring GHG disclosure and new state statutes, including a new Maryland law that requires not only disclosure, but also a mandated reduction in GHG emissions, a greater appreciation of the subject of GHG appears in order.

Greenhouse

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Science + community knowledge] x policy + law = climate wins. Goodwine, Chieftess of the Gullah/Geechee Nation ; and Dr. Wassila Thiaw, the head of International Desks in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Climate Prediction Center, along with Brenda Mallory, the chair of the White House’s Council on Environmental Quality.

Government

Ocean Conservancy

JULY 20, 2023

How are the folks at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) helping with all this extreme weather? Coastal flooding : Sea levels are rising as the ocean heats up and polar ice melts. Higher seas mean higher storm surge and more coastal flooding leading to coastal community and ecosystem damage.

Ocean

Edouard Stenger

OCTOBER 29, 2018

It would halve the number of humans that will be exposed to water scarcity; prevent runaway sea level rise that could put many of the world’s islands under water and render uninhabitable the large delta and low-coastal regions that are home to two-thirds of the world’s population.

Deforestation