Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Climate impacts as human rights violations It’s widely accepted that climate change is the cause of human rights violations for millions of people, including their rights to adequate housing, healthy working conditions, safe drinking water, education, and a healthy environment.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Fossil fuel companies are well established as founts of disinformation , agents of obstruction, and drivers of climate change. We draw attention to the outsized role that a small number of business enterprises have had in driving climate change and obstructing action. Which courts are expected to issue Advisory Opinions?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 5, 2023

Human-caused climate change is expected to increase the number and intensity of extreme weather events like hurricanes, floods, and droughts that are already ravaging communities across the United States. But climate change also causes hazards off the field by limiting farmworkers’ income. What can be done?

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 24, 2023

Somewhat to my surprise, there was a question at the first GOP debate about climate change. It’s even possible that reality has started to make a dent into the party;’s reflexive climate denial. I’m the only person on the stage who isn’t bought and paid for, so I can say this: The climate change agenda is a hoax.”He

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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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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

.” What would a victory by the Chosen One in 2024 mean for climate policy? He has doubled down on claims that climate change is a hoax and mocks climate advocates for worrying about whether “the ocean will rise by 1/100th of an inch over the next 350 years.” Download as PDF

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The phrase “ Loss and Damage “ has been bandied about in international climate negotiations since 1991 when Vanuatu, a small island nation in the South Pacific, called for developed countries to assist in shouldering the financial burden arising from climate change impacts.

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Yale E360

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Scientists could study how otters safeguard California's underwater kelp forests and marshland, even in the face of worsening climate change. As otters rebounded, a natural experiment unfolded. Read more on E360 →

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 24, 2023

The topic of climate change got about 4 minutes of airtime during the first half of the first presidential primary debate held this week by Fox News. How will you as both President of the United States and leader of the Republican Party calm their fears that the Republican Party doesn’t care about climate change?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

With extreme winter weather breaking out across the United States this week, a question in many people’s minds is—how is climate change affecting winter storms? Can you start with how climate change is generally affecting winter weather in the US? And this also connects to climate change.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

In the first legislative act under his watch, his Republican majority last month passed an appropriations bill that seeks to gut many federal programs meant to fight climate change. He holds that climate change is due to “natural cycles.” Despite the fact that 99.9 Despite the fact that 99.9

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Legal Planet

APRIL 12, 2024

Supreme Court disagreed with the Bush Administration a year later in its very first climate change case, the landmark Massachusetts v. EPA decision.) Since then, the issue of CAA section 209(b) waivers has become a game of political football between successive Democratic and Republican presidential administrations.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

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

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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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

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

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

JULY 19, 2022

Based on press reports, it now seems likely that Biden will soon declare climate change to be a national emergency. Would it unlock important powers that could be used to fight climate change? In 2019, I was worried that using this precedent to fight climate change will require some real soul-searching.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 3, 2024

The group specifically referenced the inclusion of heritage impacts in the IPCC’s 6 th Assessment Report and the International Meeting on Culture, Heritage and Climate Change co-sponsored by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) and UNESCO, held in December 2021.

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Scientific American

APRIL 25, 2024

People understand how saving tropical forests is good for the planet, but temperate forests are equally indispensable in fighting climate change

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 19, 2024

Cyclical climatic systems like El Niño are a factor, but the science is clear: Alberta’s climate is changing and water scarcity will be an ongoing issue as a result of climate change, which is primarily driven by the combustion of fossil fuels.

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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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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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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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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

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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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

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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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

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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NRDC

APRIL 2, 2024

Climate change poses unique and dangerous challenges for older people, especially those experiencing cognitive challenges.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

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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Clean Energy Law

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Lamb KC and Stephanie Forrest On 7 February 2024, the Supreme Court of New Zealand decided to allow a novel climate change claim to proceed to trial. Background The plaintiff, Mr Smith, is an elder of the Ngāpuhi and Ngāti Kahu tribes and a climate change spokesperson for the Iwi Chairs Forum, a group of New Zealand tribal leaders.

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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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