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A Dangerous Disruption

Legal Planet

The prospect of climate interventions, particularly SAI, might offer large reductions in climate-change risks that are not possible through emissions cuts, adaptations, or atmospheric removals alone, but also raise serious new uncertainties, risks, and governance challenges. This may be on the cusp of changing, but it hasn’t yet.).

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Another Historic Climate Court Ruling in the Netherlands

Legal Planet

, its district, appellate , and supreme courts decided in favor of Urgenda, an upstart environmental organization, ordering the government to more aggressively reduce greenhouse gas emissions. C with limited or no overshoot project the use of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) on the order of 100–1000 GtCO2 over the 21st century.

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Speaking Truth to Corporate Power

Legal Planet

She and another GM scientist published their work and presented their findings to GM’s VP for government relations (a/k/a “head lobbyist”). Black, had participated in a National Academy of Sciences report that said CO 2 increases might eventually require reducing the use of fossil fuels. Her research didn’t come out that way.

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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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What Happened During the Montana Youth Climate Trial

Legal Planet

Like the testimony of Georgianna Fischer , a competitive cross country skier and environmental science college major. Another scientist who focuses on greenhouse gas emissions accounting told the court Montana is responsible for tens of millions of tons of carbon dioxide emissions each year – the sixth-most in the U.S.

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Carbon-Labeled Beef: It’s What’s for Dinner

Vermont Law

The environmental issue addressed here is that certain agricultural practices, like converting forests to ranchland, release large amounts of carbon into the atmosphere and severely disrupt ecosystems. Additionally, approximately 13% of the world’s net carbon dioxide. 20% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions.

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Climatology: The Science of Global Weather Systems over the Long Term

Environmental Science

But since it became clear that human actions are damaging the environment and changing the climate, it has become much more prominent nationally and internationally with most government departments in most countries having responsibilities to mitigate or prepare for climate change scenario. Sponsored Content. What Climatology Is Not.