Legal Planet

AUGUST 15, 2023

A state court judge in the ‘Last Best Place’ just gave the youth climate movement a shot in the arm with the first decision of its kind that directly connects specific state actions to global climate change and then to injuries suffered by young people. courts have not yet engaged in this kind of fact-finding on climate change.

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Legal Planet

JULY 12, 2023

The bench trial took place last month in the state capitol, Helena, where 16 youth plaintiffs ages 5 to 22 made the case that Montana’s unwavering promotion of fossil fuels violates the state constitution’s guarantee to a “clean and healthful environment.” They are: Whether Plaintiffs’ injuries are mischaracterized or inaccurate.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The article surveys a range of criticisms of the use of carbon taxes as a tool to address greenhouse gas emissions, and criticisms of the focus of many economists on carbon taxes as the primary tool to address climate change. Politics is central in policy.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 25, 2017

We know that burning fossil fuels is the main cause of anthropogenic climate change, and that climate change is the source of adverse impacts on communities and even regional and national economies. These points are largely undisputed. These points are largely undisputed.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Exxon , the cities and towns allege that the fossil fuel companies were liable because they knowingly produced and marketed products that have caused climate change harms, while concealing and misrepresenting the associated dangers. and global climate litigation movement.

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Legal Planet

MAY 19, 2023

For the past two decades, explicit state policy has been to transition as quickly as possible from reliance on fossil fuels to renewable energy sources–motivated primarily by climate change concerns and the critical need to reduce the state’s greenhouse gas emissions.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 30, 2023

The decision sends a clear message that Montana’s constitutional provision establishing a right to a clean and healthy environment for its citizens means that Montana must consider climate change when considering a permit for any new project. It also puts the inter-generational equity issue squarely on the political agenda.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 17, 2024

Solar PV Project in Cuba (Photo credit: IRENA ) Today, the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law and Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) jointly published a new report titled Building a Cleaner, More Resilient Energy System in Cuba: Opportunities and Challenges. Cuba’s power system is currently heavily reliant on fossil fuels.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Sea level rise presents numerous climate justice issues. Some of the venues where people are addressing the injustices of climate change are UN climate negotiations, the courts, and community organizing efforts around the world. Climate justice research can help inform these conversations.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 9, 2021

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres lamented that the final texts, “take important steps, but unfortunately the collective political will was not enough to overcome some deep contradictions.” Among those contradictions is the need to wean society off fossil fuels versus the desire for short-term economic gain. We in the U.S.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

JULY 11, 2021

John Cochrane has posted an important blog post about adapting to climate change. No plausible estimate of climate damage comes close to this kind of change. And this change comes in part from increasing diffusion of fossil fuels. safer places) if climate change turns out to be as bad as you claim.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Four important global reports released in the last two days set up a deeply sobering context for the upcoming annual international climate talks in Egypt, also called COP27. Source: UN Climate Change 2022 NDC Synthesis Report. Source: UN Climate Change 2022 NDC Synthesis Report. The UN NDC Synthesis report.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Climate change: Extinction Rebellion end blockade at Shell's Aberdeen HQ The BBC | January 16, 2020 Extinction Rebellion protesters have ended a blockade at the entrances to Shell's Aberdeen headquarters. The Ogoni say that Shell was behind the hanging of nine Ogoni activists fighting Shell, including poet Ken Saro-Wiwa.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 1, 2022

In summarizing its report on the consequences of climate change, the scientific body described a society running out of time to prevent unbearable damage to the planet’s lands and waters — and to the people and creatures that depend on them. Climate change is a threat to human well-being and the health of the planet.

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Greenbuilding Law

MAY 1, 2022

With the federal government and state of Maryland each having announced within days of each other, the mandated disclosure of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, we have received, maybe not surprising, many calls in the last two weeks inquiring “what are GHGs?” greenhouse gas emissions from human activities. emission trends.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 27, 2021

For nearly three decades the United Nations has been bringing together almost every country on Earth for global climate summits known as the “Conference of the Parties”. In that time climate change has gone from being a fringe issue to a global priority. Let’s hope our political leaders in Glasgow can make that a reality.”.

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Legal Planet

MAY 9, 2022

Texas and a number of other states have passed laws banning what they call “boycotts of fossil fuel companies.” ” More precisely, they ban state investment or contracting with firms that “boycott” fossil fuel companies. Is this as opposed to a political purpose on the part of the managers? “.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2023

CARB’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) seeks to incentivize the production and sale of alternative, lower emissions transportation fuels in order to displace conventional fossil fuels. To identify which fuels should be promoted, CARB calculates the life cycle greenhouse gas emissions from transportation fuels.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 30, 2023

In August, the oil and gas industry had 64 lobby meetings with the federal government, with the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) being the most active fossil fuel lobbyist once again. CAPP is the largest oil and gas industry association and lobby group in Canada. Will you join us?

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 6, 2023

However, it’s a disappointment to the initiative’s proponents and to a larger group of environmental advocates who seek to promote California’s quick transition from reliance on heavily-polluting and climate-damaging fossil fuels to renewable energy resources.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 1, 2024

Ebel, the CEO of Enbridge, to our list of infamous Climate Villains – powerful people with fossil fuel interests holding Canada back from effective climate action. The executives behind the fossil fuel industry often avoid public scrutiny, which is why we’re shining the spotlight on their activities.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

No serious person is advocating for any large-scale deployment of solar geoengineering or substituting it for other urgent climate change mitigations, so the shorthand use of “opponent” or “supporter” is itself misleading and pushes voices to extremes. Anyone can float a balloon. Critics believe it is the path to catastrophe.”

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A Greener Life

JUNE 10, 2021

It followed Musk’s announcement earlier this month that his company would no longer accept Bitcoin in payment for its electric cars, due to the fossil fuels needed to create the digital currency. These computers use a lot of electricity , which is often generated by fossil fuels. Photo credit: AP.

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Environmental Progress

JANUARY 20, 2022

Notably, in the same proposal, the Commission has also included screening criteria for gaseous fossil fuels. Their inclusion appears to be the result of a political compromise with Member States rather than of scientific appraisal as in the case of nuclear energy.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

A friend asked me if a discussion paper published on Statistics Norway’s website, ‘ To what extent are temperature levels changing due to greenhouse gas emissions? ’, was purposely timed for the next climate summit ( COP28 ). I don’t know the answer to his question. But this discussion paper is problematic for sure.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 2, 2021

Decades ago, their own scientists told car companies and oil companies about climate change, information the companies chose to ignore. He talked her into studying climate change. She went on to become the head of the climate change program at Argonne National Lab and a professor at UC Davis.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 15, 2023

Climate change needs government scale intervention. Is it simply a lack of political will? ( *side eye fossil fuel industry) You don’t have to look any further than the oil and gas lobbyists in government offices every day of the month crying wolf about how unfair and destabilizing climate policy would be to their profits.

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HumanNature

DECEMBER 16, 2021

During the past 30 years of extensive political debate around global climate change, participants have largely ignored the role that curbing population growth could play in dealing with it. Greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase, and disruptive climate change has come on more quickly than expected.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 11, 2022

The IPCC Chair Hoesung Lee during the unveiling of the report: Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change. Last week, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) yet again warned us about the climate impacts hurtling toward us at breakneck speed. Photo credit: IPCC / Mark Speight.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Last week world leaders gathered in New York for the UN Climate Ambition Summit where countries shared concrete action they’ve taken to phase out fossil fuels. There, the conversation was grounded in science, with leaders such as California’s Governor Newsom saying “The climate crisis is a fossil fuel crisis.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

C, we stand to lose ocean and coastal ecosystems we depend on to sea level rise, warming temperatures, ocean acidification and other climate impacts. We must reduce greenhouse gas emissions now, as Dr. Sarah Cooley , Ocean Conservancy’s director of climate science, emphasized when addressing a COP27 session.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 22, 2023

The challenge for the IPCC is how to accurately promote scientific understanding of climate change in a way that resists fatalism but still makes news. It’s a matter of what is most persuasive to the general public as well as most helpful for framing the next UN climate talks, COP28 UAE. These kinds of comments are not new.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The clock is ticking, we are in the fight of our lives, and we are losing ”, the UN head bluntly declared and explained that greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions keep growing and temperatures are rising. He warned: “ Our planet is fast approaching tipping points that would make climate chaos irreversible ”.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

This week, Circle of Blue reports on how water fits into the upcoming UN Climate Change Conference. When diplomats and government ministers converge on Glasgow this fall, they hope to rekindle pivotal negotiations on global climate that were dampened during the pandemic. Ingrid Timboe is a co-chair of the water pavilion.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 7, 2024

used the words “ climate change ” expressly. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the global average temperature has already risen by 1.1°C To avoid the worst impacts of the climate crisis, the IPCC recommends limiting the temperature rise to 1.5°C,

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Legal Planet

JULY 25, 2023

We give lots of lip service describing climate change as an emergency or existential threat. According to the Climate Emergency Declaration Organization, 2336 jurisdictions around the world have declared it to be an emergency, but we are not really acting like it. There are many possible emergency actions.

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Legal Planet

MAY 9, 2022

As of 2021, 30 emissions trading systems were in force globally, covering 16 – 17 % of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. – Emissions trading as part of a portfolio of climate policies. . Carbon markets are at a crossroads. Lessons from California’s Cap-and-Trade Program.

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