Carbon Emissions Paris Agreement Politics Sea Level 
Legal Planet
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
Yet Indonesia’s role in cutting energy emissions is crucial. As an archipelago, Indonesia is at the prey of sea level rise. Jakarta, a city of ten million, is only two feet above sea level. Carbon emissions from land use change (mostly logging) are comparable to Brazil’s, though Brazil gets a lot more publicity.
Ocean Conservancy
MARCH 1, 2022
Their work paved the way for international agreements to tackle the crisis like the Kyoto Protocol and Paris Agreement. Over the years, these reports have analyzed the research to confirm that global warming is occurring, that humans are the cause and that we need to reduce carbon emissions to address it.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 30, 2022
What’s more, all of these intersecting and compounding crises reveal similar fundamental flaws in our current social, political and economic systems—including that those who are most marginalized in society suffer disproportionate harms. A rapid clean energy transition is (still) the best path forward.
Environmental Science
SEPTEMBER 7, 2018
Acidification : Reducing the pH rating of a substance making it more acidic in nature, for example, increased carbon emissions lead to the oceans absorbing more of it, increasing acidification and damaging ecology such as coral bleaching. We are already seeing the depletion of the ice caps and rising sea levels.
Law Columbia
JULY 6, 2017
One party challenging the Master Program—Citizen’s Alliance for Property Rights Jefferson County (CAPR)—had argued that a provision in the Master Program goals section addressing climate change and sea-level rise was unconstitutionally vague. Exxon Mobil Corp. Schneiderman , No. 1:17 -cv-02301-VEC (S.D.N.Y. June 16, 2017).
Law Columbia
MAY 7, 2021
Circuit’s January opinion vacating EPA’s repeal and replacement of the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan regulations for controlling carbon emissions from existing power plants. The plaintiffs alleged that the defendants’ environmental assessment understated traffic levels as well as carbon emissions.
Law Columbia
FEBRUARY 10, 2020
The majority said it “reluctantly” concluded that “the plaintiffs’ case must be made to the political branches or to the electorate at large” and “[t]hat the other branches may have abdicated their responsibility to remediate the problem does not confer on Article III courts, no matter how well-intentioned, the ability to step into their shoes.”
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