Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 9, 2025

Right before the holiday weekend, the InterAmerican Court of Human Rights (IACtHR), the Americas’ highest human rights court, released a landmark advisory opinion (AO) establishing the human right to a healthy climate. This legal recognition reinforces decades of scientific consensus that climate change threatens basic human rights.

Fossil Fuels

Law Columbia

JUNE 19, 2025

The suit, which was filed in 2015, alleges that RWE’s historic GHG emissions—amounting to approximately 0.38% of GHG emissions since the Industrial Revolution—have materially contributed to climate change and, specifically, to the accelerated melting of mountain glaciers near Lliuya‘s hometown.

Climate Change

Inside Climate News

OCTOBER 12, 2024

By Sean Sublette A preliminary analysis from the team of scientists at World Weather Attribution indicates the rainfall from Hurricane Milton across Florida was 20 percent to 30 percent heavier and rainfall intensity was about twice as likely as it would have been in the climate of the late 19th century.

Climate Change

Legal Planet

JULY 24, 2025

It’s been a long time coming but nations of the world officially have a legal obligation to limit their emissions of greenhouse gases or else pay reparations for the harms of climate change. The case was filed in 2018 by Vanuatu, an archipelago in the Pacific Ocean that is especially vulnerable to human-caused climate change.

Climate Change

Legal Planet

MARCH 3, 2025

This Climate Superfund Fund would be created in the State Treasury. This fund would be utilized to cover adaptation, mitigation, and recovery response for the states damages caused by climate change. Disadvantaged communities are hit first and worst by extreme weather events and climate-related disasters.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

JULY 31, 2025

Photo by MRC Témiscamingue via Unsplash The case for decarbonization to address climate change is often, understandably, directed toward the fossil fuel industry. The international scientific community has long known of the animal agriculture sector’s harmful contributions to climate change.

Fossil Fuels

Real Climate

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

It’s 20 years since we started blogging on climate here on RealClimate (December 10, 2004). We wanted to counter disinformation about climate change that was spreading through various campaigns. In a nutshell, they are responsible for climate change, mainly due to an increased greenhouse effect.

2004

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Last month, 44 climate scientists from 15 countries wrote an open letter to the Nordic Council of Ministers highlighting the risk of a potential collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), a critical ocean current system in the Atlantic Ocean. But what exactly would cause the AMOC to collapse?

Climate Scientist

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 18, 2025

The worlds largest fossil fuel and cement producers have known for decades that their products cause climate change, yet they spread disinformation to misinform the public and have profited as people around the world have suffered from ever-worsening climate impacts.

Sea Level

Nature

JULY 15, 2025

Climate change has significantly increased adverse effects on human health, and economic growth1–3. However, few studies have differentiated the impacts of extreme temperatures at the city level, and analysed the future implications for human health under various climate change scenarios.4–6

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 7, 2025

Scientists are sounding the alarm because this warming is shockingly bigbigger than what we would have expected given the long-term warming trend from fossil fuel-caused climate change. Meanwhile, sharply cutting our use of fossil fuels is the best way to limit carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions, the primary driver of climate change.

2024

Legal Planet

APRIL 1, 2025

Discussing climate change at a large workshop can provide important policy insights and opportunities for networking, but it necessarily lacks the human element. The first goal of the campaign was to create awareness about climate change. To address this, SEWA created the Climate School. Download as PDF

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Wetlands help mitigate climate change by trapping and storing carbon. While development, forestry, and climate change all contribute to wetland loss, draining for agriculture has been the single biggest cause since the 1800s. But wetland loss doesnt just increase flood riskit also drives climate change.

Clean Water Act

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Some estimates suggest they could disappear by 2030 due to the climate change triggered by human fossil fuel use, which began less than 200 years ago. Glaciers, once thought of as static, timeless icons, have become a fleeting phenomenon, highlighting the urgent need for action on climate change.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 18, 2025

The fossil fuel industrys role in driving climate change is undeniable, yet corporate accountability remains a contested space. As the scientific evidence strengthens, courts around the world are increasingly considering the role of major fossil fuel companies in climate-related damages. Cases such as Milieudefensie et al.

Sea Level

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Understanding sea level rise as a long-term, multi-generational problem is essential to comprehending the scale of climate change and the need for bold action now. While this knowledge may be sobering, it underscores the importance of reducing emissions, holding major polluters accountable, and adapting to a changing world.

Sea Level

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Electric vehicles (EVs) are a cleaner option than gasoline alternatives and are essential for reducing emissions that cause climate change and illnesses. Make decisionmaking in transportation and land use planning more democratic, accessible, and equitable. But how we get to fully electric matters.

Recycling

HumanNature

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Student in the Department of Biology and Graduate Degree Program in Ecology at Colorado State University Seeing is Believing What do you picture when you think of climate change? Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing the world. climate change is set to impact everyone.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 8, 2025

Floods can come from rain-on-snow events and from high spring temperatures that melt the snow faster, and climate change is triggering earlier and faster snowmelt. In the Midwest, Lake Erie has the LEOFS (Lake Erie Operational Forecast System) to better manage water levels affected by seasonal variations and climate change.

Climate Change

Yale E360

JULY 28, 2025

Climate change is bringing ever more precipitation and rising seas to low-lying Denmark. In response to troubling predictions, Copenhagen is enacting an ambitious plan to build hundreds of nature-based and engineered projects to soak up, store, and redistribute future floods. Read more on E360 →

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Now, what’s desperately needed are new funding commitments from countries to help meet the significant and growing needs as the climate crisis worsens. Climate vulnerable countries need funding to start flowing quickly. C above pre-industrial levels, and underscoring how world leaders are failing their people. to 2.8 °C

Fossil Fuels

Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Don’t forget to add on top of that the cost of climate change. From increasing costs of insurance and everyday items like coffee and chocolate, to major expenses when dealing with climate crisis infrastructure damage, like damaged roads, bridges and buildings, we know climate change is expensive.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 14, 2025

The last IPCC report stated that climate-related litigation has influenced the outcome and ambition of climate governance. It also highlighted that outside the formal climate policy processes, climate litigation is an important arena for various actors to confront and interact over how climate change should be governed.

Fossil Fuels

Environmental News Bits

DECEMBER 4, 2024

It has led to environmental damage like climate change, which affects some people more than others. The two crises mutually reinforce the consequences of the same flawed systems of … Continue reading Climate change is hitting women the hardest. What to do about it – economists

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The global community expects this type of authoritative scientific assessment on global existential threats from its international bodies; an example is the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that was created to provide governments and the public with regular scientific assessments on climate change, risks posed, and solutions.

Radiation

Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 14, 2025

Prime Minister Trudeaus recent decision to prorogue Parliament and announce his upcoming resignation may have left you wondering about what this could mean for climate change policy. All political leaders should be bolder on climate. Time is ticking!

Politics

ESA

OCTOBER 30, 2024

By Astrid Caldas Target 8 of the Convention on Biological Diversity’s Kumming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KMGBF) is to “Minimize the impacts of climate change on biodiversity and build resilience.” link to [link] Cover of the book titled ‘Biodiversity and Climate Change.

Climate Change

Environmental News Bits

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Rising seas and intense storms dominate the headlines about climate change, but there is a quieter catastrophe already unfolding: the irreversible loss of cultural heritage. … Continue reading Protecting Illinois’ cultural heritage from climate change Read the full story from the Prairie Research Institute.

Climate Change

A Greener Life

DECEMBER 28, 2024

Climate impacts contributed to overall poor cereal harvests The poor harvests should be seen in the light of record-breaking rain in the 2023/24 winter, which climate scientists say is exacerbated by climate change. Additionally, a wet July disrupted and delayed the harvesting of spring cereals.

Climate Change

Law Columbia

MARCH 25, 2025

Malaysia is at high risk from the effects of climate change. To tackle the effects of climate change, the Malaysian Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Sustainability (NRES) released a consultation paper in October 2024, proposing a Climate Change Act ( Rang Undang-Undang Perubahan Iklim Negara , or RUUPIN).

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2025

This past week, I attended the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) meeting in Hangzhou, China. In previous posts, Ive explained what the IPCC is, why this assessment cycle is crucial , and highlighted its role in climate action. Whats Next for the IPCC?

Climate Change

Environmental News Bits

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Dislodging climate change from the culture wars might feel nearly impossible. But scientists have found ways to talk about the changing weather that resonate with Fox News fans, a segment of the population that many climate advocates consider a lost cause, by taking a just the facts approach.

Climate Change

Legal Planet

APRIL 9, 2025

Graphic: Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego Teaching the climate change unit last week in my International Environmental Law and Policy class, I found myself so moved that I started crying at the board. My poor students thought I was in distress.I

Carbon Dioxide

Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Canadians recognize that fossil fuels are causing the climate crisis and want to see governments act to phase out the production and use of coal, oil and gas. Oil and gas companies have spent decades lying to Canadians about their role in driving climate change and the unnatural disasters that were all experiencing.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 26, 2025

Increasing clean energy is affordable The two main drivers for recent electricity cost increases are Maine’s and New England’s over-dependence on imported methane gas for more than half of the region’s electricity and the increase in climate change-fueled extreme weather events.

Electricity

Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Climate change is propelling these weather events to grow faster and stronger than ever before. Other climate change impacts are accelerating as well. Many scientists thought these high ocean temperatures would be years away, but the realities of climate change are not a distant threat.

Fossil Fuels

Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Countries committed to a principle of fairness when they signed the Paris Agreement in 2015, acknowledging that those who have profited for decades from oil, gas and coal had a responsibility to deliver funds to the countries least responsible, yet most impacted by climate change.

Paris Agreement