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How the Latest IPCC Reports Can Strengthen Climate Litigation Efforts

Union of Concerned Scientists

The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently released its sixth assessment of climate change, comprised of three separate reports presenting the latest science on climate change, related impacts, adaptation, vulnerability , and mitigation at a time when more and more people are pressing for climate action.

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War in Ukraine and the Climate Crisis Are Connected: Our Future Depends on Solutions that Address Both

Union of Concerned Scientists

Fossil fuels are the root cause of climate change, of long-standing environmental injustices, and are also frequently connected to geopolitical strife and violent conflicts. Other countries are dependent upon these fossil fuels, they don’t make themselves free of them. This is a fossil fuel war.

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Big Oil can’t increase production and pretend it’s part of the climate solution

Enviromental Defense

There are an increasing number of companies and countries that are pledging to reach Net Zero carbon emissions–or carbon neutrality–by 2050. That was the timeline laid down by the most prestigious body of climate scientists for limiting warming to 1.5 degrees , the “safe” threshold for global warming.

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Big Oil is prepared to pollute to the last drop – and expecting us to pick up the slack

Enviromental Defense

This will be the defining moment for the Prime Minister’s legacy on climate change. Will he follow through with a policy that limits carbon pollution from Canada’s #1 polluters? It states , “The cumulative scientific evidence is unequivocal: Climate change is a threat to human well-being and planetary health.

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New Program Brings Together Residents, Businesses To Help Make Lancaster County Carbon Neutral

PA Environment Daily

Humans everywhere are experiencing the impact of climate change. Individual citizens and businesses ready to make a change need an avenue for actionable, measurable impact. Individuals, businesses, and municipalities can offset their carbon emissions by contributing to the CCF.

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

Union of Concerned Scientists

But another major culprit is climate change, which has intensified the heat and drought that have always been factors in western North America. That climate change obviously didn’t just happen on its own. Ekwurzel was joined by Heede, then-UCS climate scientist Peter Frumhoff , and four other scientists.

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Ask a Scientist: ‘Danger Season’ Summers Disproportionately Harm Disadvantaged Communities

Union of Concerned Scientists

Climate scientists at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) have dubbed the six-month stretch from May through October the “ Danger Season.” Not only has much of what climate scientists have been warning about come to pass, many of the extreme weather events the planet is now experiencing are worse than they expected. “To