Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

So, no, there’s no conspiracy of scientists to cook up thousands of scientific papers about climate change. After all, universities are looking to hire people who will feel compelled to share their views with students and publish their ideas for the whole world to see. Keeping quiet about something is not a prized professional trait.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Since this is Black History Month, I thought it would be appropriate to talk about some of the prominent contributions by Blacks to understanding and addressing climate change. He has pioneered computer modeling of climate change. Kari Fulton led the campaign for the Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative.

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MARCH 24, 2023

For the first time, the International Court of Justice (ICJ)—the world’s highest court—may be ruling on climate change. On March 29, the UN General Assembly will vote on a resolution to bring climate change before the ICJ.

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Legal Planet

JULY 21, 2023

As Gernot Wagner puts it in ‘ Geoengineering: the Gamble ’: “The decision is all about risk-risk tradeoffs” He urges us to put the risks of potentially pursuing solar geoengineering against “the risks of unmitigated climate change.” The National Academy of Sciences adopted a ’risk-risk’ framing in its 2021 report.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Previous calls for ‘climate security’ have sought to legitimize exceptional measures such as restrictions on excessive flying, or other forms of emergency decarbonization, to tackle climate change itself. This is not to dismiss the potential for geoengineering to reduce climate harms.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 13, 2023

A new wave of cases differs from traditional environmental lawsuits by highlighting the connections between preserving the Amazon and the climate, the grave risk of greenhouse gas emissions caused by deforestation, and the critical role of the forest as a major global carbon sink. The timing of these climate disputes is not accidental.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

In light of Native American Heritage Day last Friday, we should also be thinking about the future of the tribes in the era of climate change. Tribes face serious challenges from climate change, but also some potential opportunities. In terms of climate impacts, many tribes are at high risk. Download as PDF.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

As the world heads into COP27 , there is no room for bad information on climate change in our major newspapers. Carlo’s proposal for a Climate Response Fund created by and for indigenous communities. She introduced donut economics to examine ways to thrive in the 21 st century.

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Environment + Energy Leader

JUNE 26, 2023

A report by global safety charity Lloyd's Register Foundation shows individuals in countries heavily reliant on fossil fuel production are less likely to perceive climate change as a significant threat.

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JUNE 6, 2023

Human-caused climate change is redistributing species across the globe, re-ordering ecological communities, and even driving genetic changes in some populations. We need to better understand these changes, and to adapt biodiversity conservation strategies to take them into consideration. Photo: UNESCO/David G.

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Environment + Energy Leader

JANUARY 31, 2023

In the past decade alone, there have been more than 300,000 deaths from natural disasters caused by climate change — and those numbers are likely to increase in coming years. The post The Impact of Climate Change on the US Healthcare System appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 12, 2022

Extreme heat and heatwaves are growing more frequent and more severe because of climate change. While climate change is making our days hotter, the fingerprints of climate change are even clearer for nighttime temperatures than for daytime temperatures.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 26, 2022

California’s Central Valley consistently experiences the country’s worst air quality, and climate change is poised to make air quality even worse. In a region known for its exceptional agricultural productivity, climate change is quickly amplifying a dangerous type of climate risk in California’s Central Valley: air pollution.

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Yale E360

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Hungarian scientist Diana Ürge-Vorsatz is concerned about how the climate change crisis is impacting children. She sees her research on renewable energy and energy demand as part of the essential work of protecting and restoring the future for the next generation. Read more on E360 →.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

And just like summertime in the US, this period (December, January, and February) has transformed into a “ danger season ” as a result of climate change, replete with deadly heatwaves, drought, and wildfires. Sixty times more likely is a remarkable figure to me. And there would be some justice.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 15, 2023

A Montana state district court has issued its long-awaited decision in a major climate change case brought by Montana children against state officials. Judge Seeley did so after presiding over a two-week, non-jury trial in June 2023–the first such climate change trial in U.S. In Held v. legal history.

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Environment + Energy Leader

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

McKesson Europe aims to be carbon neutral by 2030, while McKesson Corporation set in 2021 a science-based target initiative to keep temperature increases in check and aligned with the Paris climate agreement.

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MAY 24, 2021

This year’s theme is “Arts, Culture and Heritage” and UCS is helping to raise up climate change in that context. Climate change is probably the fastest-growing threat to African cultural heritage, much of which was left in a parlous position because of the legacies and structural inequalities of past colonial rule.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

I feel like climate change is going to have to get worse before it gets better. Climate change has been a big, scary, looming problem for basically the entirety of my life; I cannot remember a time when it was not at least a background concern. This holiday season, I’m especially grateful for their tone of determination.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 10, 2022

In an earlier post, I tried to figure out when the legal academy first discovered climate changes. Those first climate change cases shed light on how new issues get litigated and how courts respond to new science. There were two cases where climate change was a central issue: City of Los Angeles v.

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Yale E360

APRIL 28, 2022

Britt Wray is a leading researcher on the mental health impact of climate change. In an e360 interview, she talks about the rise of climate anxiety in young people, how social media exacerbates this trend, and why distress about the climate crisis can spur positive change. Read more on E360 ?.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 9, 2023

RFK, he said, has done more on climate change as an environmental lawyer than Biden ever has. once a leading environmental lawyer who even taught and led a law clinic, is now a danger to climate progress. Kennedy Jr. videos on Instagram, I couldn’t resist asking him what was appealing about the long-shot presidential candidate.

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JUNE 6, 2022

Deadly heatwaves, extreme drought, food and water shortages, catastrophic flooding, rapidly intensifying tropical storms, raging wildfires—around the world, climate change is exacerbating extreme conditions and their harsh toll on people and ecosystems. The fearsome toll of climate impacts is already clear, leading U.N.

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Yale E360

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Fawn Sharp, president of the National Congress of American Indians, talks with Yale Environment 360 about how climate change is hitting Native Americans especially hard and why protecting tribal sovereignty is critical for tackling the climate crisis. Read more on E360 ?.

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AUGUST 24, 2022

And is that kind of description even relevant as the planet heats up and climate change changes everything? Thanks to climate change. Add climate change and we need to keep track of which decade these flood levels were determined. Extreme event probability and associated severity is changing.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 11, 2021

According to the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report published Monday, Southeast Asia coastal zones are among the world’s most climate vulnerable regions. Graphic courtesy of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Carl Ganter / Circle of Blue.

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Environment + Energy Leader

JANUARY 5, 2023

The post SBTi Approves NG Bailey’s Climate Change Plan appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader. NG Bailey has pledged to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 50% by 2031 from sources it directly owns and manages as well as those it indirectly contributes to.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Climate Change Grips Trout Streams Across the Nation: How Anglers Are Responding Across the country, anglers have watched as droughts, floods, and high temperatures batter the rivers they depend on. The issue has begun changing minds about climate change among recreational fishermen, a demographic that leans politically conservative.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

The post South Korea and Climate Change appeared first on Legal Planet. He is a strong believer in nuclear energy as a key part of the energy transition. What he does while in office remains to be seen. Download as PDF.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Last week, the Sabin Center’s Peer Reviewer Network provided a detailed comment in response to the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights’ Call for Comments on the draft study concerning the impact of climate change on human rights in Africa. Read the comment here.

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MARCH 24, 2022

Climate change has sped up the arrival of spring, with major consequences for wildfires (Fig. Climate change has disrupted historical trends and created conditions for year-round wildfires. Together, these studies illustrate how climate change has elevated the threat of wildfires year-round.

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JUNE 7, 2023

Climate change is putting more people and property in harm’s way—and also exposing hard limits to the protection that property insurance can offer. Insurance is the ‘canary in the coal mine’ for climate change The risks of climate change have long been recognized by the reinsurance industry—including SwissRe and Munich Re —but U.S.

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MAY 17, 2023

Deadly heat and humidity across India, Bangladesh, Laos, and Thailand in late April was made significantly more likely by climate change, scientists say. Read more on E360 →

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JANUARY 10, 2023

Many of these disasters—including floods, storms, wildfires and droughts—were worsened by climate change. . Climate change is not the sole causative factor, of course. That’s why the long-waited climate bill that the U.S. Source: NOAA [link].

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Environment + Energy Leader

APRIL 14, 2023

Held in Expo City Dubai, the Green Retreat, debuted innovative ideas related to climate change action, environmental preservation, and sustainability efforts. The post UAE Ministry of Climate Change and Environment Holds “Green Retreat” appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 27, 2023

How is climate change affecting our ocean? What does climate change mean for fish? Some effects of climate change aren’t as easy to spot as shifting ranges or fish stock collapses, however. Thinking about how fish respond to temperature isn’t enough to predict their response to climate change, though.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Someone asked me recently what I thought law schools should be teaching about climate change. Naturally, my first reaction is that everyone everywhere needs to put climate change at the top of their agenda. Land use law is another subject that may be transformed by climate change.

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