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Paris Agreement Target for Warming Won’t Protect Polar Ice Sheets, Scientists Warn

Inside Climate News

By Bob Berwyn Sea levels in some parts of the world could be rising by as much as 8 to 12 inches per decade within the lifetime of todays youngest generations, outpacing the ability of many coastal communities to adapt, scientists warned in a new study published this week. degrees Celsius of warming, the U.N.

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Africa’s Advisory Opinion Request: Taking Climate Justice to the Continent’s Highest Court

Law Columbia

This normative pressure may catalyze climate justice advancement across the continent, potentially compelling broader institutional engagement with climate obligations irrespective of formal ratification status.

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The Transformation of European Climate Change Litigation: Introduction to the Blog Symposium

Law Columbia

In a transformative moment for European and global climate litigation, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled today that the state has a positive duty to adopt, and effectively implement in practice, regulations and measures capable of mitigating the existing and potentially irreversible future effects of climate change.

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IPCC: The planet is on red alert

A Greener Life

Just months be fore the crucial UN climate summit, COP26 kicks off in Glasgow, UK in November the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has issued one of its starkest reports stating that governments have taken too long to take action and we are now paying the price. Unprecedented.