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How the Latest IPCC Reports Can Strengthen Climate Litigation Efforts

Union of Concerned Scientists

We are already starting to see successes in the courts, the IPCC reported that the majority of climate cases outside of the United States have seen favorable ruling. One important win came when the Dutch court ruled that Shell must cut carbon emissions from both its operations and the oil and gas products the company sells.

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

Enviromental Defense

Will he follow through with a policy that limits carbon pollution from Canada’s #1 polluters? This week’s report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the world’s leading climate scientists, paints a terrifying picture of the future if Canada and the world don’t tackle fossil fuels with urgency.

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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. Right now, there is no funding, no governance framework, no international agreement to help people displaced by climate impacts and protect their human rights.

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Analysis: What challenges face Chile’s new ‘environmentalist’ government?

A Greener Life

One of the strongest names is that of Maisa Rojas, a renowned climate scientist who will take over as the new Minister for the Environment. “My Although politics is a new world for her, she has been involved in a number of different capacities for some time.

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Climate Litigation Chart Updates – November 2016

Law Columbia

Opponents of EPA Carbon Standards for New Coal-Fired Power Plants Filed Initial Briefs. Petitioners challenging EPA’s new source performance standards for carbon emissions from power plants filed their opening briefs in the D.C. Arizona Board of Regents Filed Notice of Appeal in Climate Scientist Public Records Case.

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On Behalf Of Environmentalists, I Apologize For The Climate Scare

Environmental Progress

In the final three chapters of Apocalypse Never I expose the financial, political, and ideological motivations. The invitations from IPCC and Congress are signs of a growing openness to new thinking about climate change and the environment. Environmental groups have accepted hundreds of millions of dollars from fossil fuel interests.

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Bad science and bad ethics in Peter Gleick’s Review of “Apocalypse Never” at Yale Climate Connections

Environmental Progress

I further argue that, if we continue to develop in these ways, deaths from natural disasters will continue to decline, food surpluses will continue to rise, and global carbon emissions will likely peak and decline soon, preventing temperatures from rising more than three degrees centigrade over pre-industrial levels.