Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

Statement by Stephen Legault, Senior Manager, Alberta Energy Transition Canmore | Traditional territories of the Treaty 7 Nations – Denying the link between fossil fuels, CO2, and climate change will only hurt Alberta and its future economic well-being.

Climate Change

Law Columbia

OCTOBER 25, 2024

The next week has the potential to bring important developments for international governance of marine carbon dioxide removal (CDR). The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has concluded that CDR will be needed, alongside deep emissions cuts, to limit global warming to 1.5 seaweed) for carbon storage.

Carbon Dioxide

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 15, 2025

The alleged scheme involved hacking into the email accounts of staff members at UCS and several other public interest organizations, all of whom were working to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for their role in climate change. According to the US governments sentencing memo, clients of Azaris firm paid him approximately $4.8

Fossil Fuels

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

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

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 14, 2025

As the climate crisis deepens, so does the urgency to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for decades of deception. The last IPCC report stated that climate-related litigation has influenced the outcome and ambition of climate governance. In short, climate litigation is actively shaping climate action today.

Fossil Fuels

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

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. It is unlikely that the government will last long once Parliament resumes.

Politics

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

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

As climate change accelerates, California faces increasingly severe threats to its communities, economy, and environment. To address the growing risks of climate change, California has developed a comprehensive adaptation and resilience framework.

Sea Level

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 9, 2025

Thats why I believe the Climate Accountability Act is a critical step for Wisconsin, especially given all the ways the federal government is trying to move us backward on addressing climate change. the federal government is trying to move us backwards on addressing climate change.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2024

The problem is that focusing on the challenges of litigation risks overlooking the second RoN strategy, one that may prove much more important in the USA over time — RoN through Governance. Instead, national legislation has created a governance structure for a forest, river, and lagoon. But, even here, the challenge remains.

Law

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Eagle County , has important implications for issues such as whether NEPA covers climate change impacts. In addition, the impact statement was governed by the 1970 version of NEPA and the 1978 White House NEPA regulations. The case, Seven County Infrastructure Coalition v. The facts are quite unusual.

Climate Change

Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Statement from Aly Hyder Ali, Oil and Gas Program Manager, Environmental Defence Ottawa | Traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People – We welcome the Government of Canada’s Oil and Gas Greenhouse Gas Pollution Cap draft regulation, which aims to curb pollution from the oil and gas industry.

2030

Legal Planet

JULY 9, 2025

I post periodically about developments in the debate over solar geoengineering (SRM) and its potential role in response to climate change. First, SRM presents high stakes for climate risks and response – which most governments thus far have been reluctant to acknowledge.

Government

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

MAY 21, 2025

Thorpe, Vanderbilt University; Michael Vandenbergh, Vanderbilt University, and Zdravka Tzankova, Vanderbilt University As the federal government moves to eliminate U.S. Thorpe, Vanderbilt University; Michael Vandenbergh, Vanderbilt University, and Zdravka Tzankova, Vanderbilt University As the federal government moves to eliminate U.S.

Climate Change

Circle of Blue

JULY 24, 2025

The MDM’s open-access data has also influenced policy discussions surrounding Mekong dams, pushing governments toward transparency, informing dam operation policies, and giving downstream nations independent evidence of upstream impacts. Now we have time to secure our boats and move livestock.”

Climate Change

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

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

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

Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 12, 2024

The 2035 target sets a marker to guide the next decade of climate action for all levels of government, industry, and Canadians. This new target represents a failure on the part of the Government of Canada to see that Canada does its global fair share. Provincial governments share the blame.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 21, 2025

This verdict is yet another example of the fossil fuel industrys agenda being enacted by multiple levels and branches of government. In todays dollars the total cost to the US government in lost revenue alone would be approximately $222.7 This is more than an outrage. Because a lot of their thinking is outrageous.

Fossil Fuels

Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The Ontario government is trying to recklessly push forward with Highway 413 in a way that harms species at risk and considers Indigenous consultation an afterthought.” These new records further validate long held concerns about this highway,” said Tim Gray, executive director at Environmental Defence.

Government

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Interested in understanding how climate change affects our groundwater and what it means for the environment and economy? Join PA Sea Grant and the Department of Environmental Protection for the upcoming Pennsylvania Lake Erie Environmental Forum webinar on Groundwater and Climate Change on November 19 from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m.

Climate Change

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Tools and Resources to Realize Equitable Climate Infrastructure Investment Last week, CLEE released two new reports that examine how to support equitable climate infrastructure investment in the project design process.

Clean Energy

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. Climate resilient crop analysis: Could rye grain show what sustainable cereal agriculture could look like?

Climate Change

Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 28, 2025

This may seem like a setback for climate progress in Canada, but it simply underscores the limits of voluntary initiatives and the need for the government to enforce climate-aligned financial regulations. Four of our largest banks have recently withdrawn from the UN-backed Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA).

Climate Change

Ocean Conservancy

APRIL 23, 2025

Climate change, biodiversity loss and plastic pollution represent an unprecedented threat to the ocean and life on Earth as we know it. First, climate change. Collectively, these impacts result in a climate crisis that threatens the health of our ocean and planet Second, biodiversity loss.

Ocean

Legal Planet

APRIL 14, 2025

The California Climate Change Assessment is a key initiative to understand and address the state’s climate impacts and build resilience through informed decision-making. The survey closes on May 15, 2025.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 19, 2025

In the 1960s, it started to become clear, with the help of climate models and theory, that fossil fuel use would warm the planet. The National Academy of Sciences released The Charney Report in 1979, which used climate models to predict, and warn the U.S. government was warned about global warming as early as 1965 ).

Atmosphere

Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

Thats why I was happy to partner with Environmental Defence and use my platform to promote renewable energy, action against climate change, and our most valuable resource: wide open untouched, healthy nature. For winter athletes, climate change poses existential risks to doing what they love.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

This opinion overturned weak fuel efficiency standards adopted by the Bush Administration because the government had not considered the effects of its action on climate change in its environmental impact statement. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (2007). It became a key precedent on the issue. EPA (2012 ).

Law

Environmental News Bits

JUNE 26, 2025

How do digital government, circular economy, and environmental regulatory stringency affect renewable energy production? link] Abstract Renewable energy is widely acknowledged as the most viable solution to deal with the issues of climate change and energy security risks. Sohail, S., & Sohail, M. Energy Policy, 203, 114634.

Renewable Energy

Law Columbia

MARCH 12, 2025

UN Photo/ICJ-CIJ/ Frank van Beek This blog post is Part 3 of a three-part series highlighting the main legal arguments presented during the hearings of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the request for an advisory opinion regarding the obligations of States with respect to climate change.

Climate Change

Environmental News Bits

MAY 5, 2025

Supreme Court in March 2025 ended a decade-old lawsuit filed by a group of children who sought to hold the federal government responsible for some of the consequences of climate change.

Climate Change

Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The Premier and her government are so focused on picking fights with Ottawa that they are missing the fact that there are now more people employed in the development of renewable energy around the world than people working in oil and gas. Oil and gas pollution is fueling climate change, which is raising the cost of living for Canadians.

Renewable Energy