Legal Planet
SEPTEMBER 30, 2021
Today, climate change is the central, though by no means the only, concern in environmental law. I found only one relevant reference using the term “climate change” before 1985. In one sentence of a 1975 article, John Barton referred to “climate change” as a potentially severe long-term problem.
Circle of Blue
AUGUST 2, 2021
The Acre, Moa, Juruá, and Japiim rivers, which succumbed earlier this year to increased flooding linked to climate change and extreme rain events, are keystone socio-environmental features. The expansion of BR-364 would contribute to the surging rate of Amazon deforestation, which nears its highest point in over a decade. .
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A Greener Life
JANUARY 11, 2024
But the extraordinary findings by the European Union’s (EU) Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), unveiled this week, were more significant than perhaps many expected. The Copernicus Climate Change Service added, that in 2023 the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere rose to the highest level ever recorded at 419 PPM.
Legal Planet
JULY 29, 2021
Both are leading scholars in their fields, exceptional classroom educators, and leaders of public interest initiatives that are shaping climate change and environmental law and policy in California, the U.S., and jurisdictions around the world. Wang is a leading expert on environmental governance and the law and politics of China.
Environment, Law, and History
JANUARY 12, 2022
A recent post by Dan Farber at Legal Planet discussed the issue of when climate awareness began to enter American law. In "The Origins of Climate Awareness in the Legal Academy" , Farber writes: The earliest clear references to climate change that turned up in my search. were in 1978 articles about nuclear energy.
Vermont Law
JULY 31, 2023
This model can represent a domestic or global scenario of climate damage, but many in the United States favor domestic views only. should account for global damages from climate change in its SCC modeling based on how their emissions exacerbate that global harm. The question is whether the U.S. The short answer is yes, the U.S.
Vermont Law
NOVEMBER 10, 2016
with increasing evidence showing that this is man-made climate change. Thus, the urgency for solutions increases here at COP22 where the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (. is meeting to discuss and improve climate change goals. know how to absorb the carbon dioxide (CO2).
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