Union of Concerned Scientists

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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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

This is an integral step towards cleaning our air and reducing climate-warming emissions. California’s fleet of commercial trucks and buses is responsible for an outsized impact on air quality and climate change. There are more than 1.8 pollution from vehicles. It’s time to electrify trucks and you can help.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Water-related crises around the world have shown that current systems of governance and economic organization are unsuited for a world altered by global warming. Climate change and deforestation are reshaping the monsoon season, causing ice on the Tibetan plateau to melt , and affecting freshwater supplies to more than one billion people.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 2, 2024

Ocean-Based Carbon Dioxide Removal © 2023 by Ocean Visions Ocean-based carbon dioxide removal (CDR) is attracting increased attention as a possible climate change response strategy. The ocean is a globally shared resource and, as such, a number of international agreements have been developed to govern ocean-based activities.

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Legal Planet

MAY 9, 2022

Following are some of my key takeaways (detailed in this and another forthcoming report) about the appropriate role of emissions trading in climate change policy and general thoughts on improving the effectiveness of carbon markets. – Emissions trading as part of a portfolio of climate policies. Stay tuned.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 22, 2022

On June 13, 2022, Chile published its Climate Change Framework Law (“the Climate Act”). The Climate Act includes a binding goal of net zero emissions by 2050 at the latest, following the recommendations of the IPCC. In 2019, Chile became President of the 25th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP25).

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 23, 2023

The Air & Waste Management Association will hold its 15th annual Symposium on Electric Power Transformation - Energy, Environment, Policy, Technology September 26-27 in Pittsburgh. Click Here to register and for more information.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 8, 2023

While there are thousands of people here in Dubai at COP28 fighting for genuine change, the climate summit is facing a barrage of disinformation. Combatting climate change has never been more urgent, and COP28 is poised to advance critical global action. According to The Global Carbon Project , approximately 36.6

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

BLUE GREEN CANADA, CANADIAN CENTRE FOR POLICY ALTERNATIVES, CANADIAN LABOUR CONGRESS, CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK CANADA, THE COUNCIL OF CANADIANS, DAVID SUZUKI FOUNDATION, ECOJUSTICE, ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCE, ÉQUITERRE, IRON + EARTH, PEMBINA INSTITUTE, 350.org It’s time for the government to fulfill its 2019 promise.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 3, 2024

By Anders Lorenzen Jim Ratcliffe, the UK’s richest man and the founder and CEO of Ineos , the petrochemical giant, who perversely pays little UK tax as he resides in the tax haven of Monaco, has won UK government backing from a giant fossil fuel project which campaigners have labelled as climate wrecking.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Inspired by the book All We Can Save , a celebration of the feminist climate renaissance , we asked 15 local women who are thinking about and working on climate change to respond to the question: “If we are at a crossroads of peril and promise, where do you see possibility alive and growing?”.

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

In the halls of Congress, legislators are at a standstill on funding the federal government for the next fiscal year (FY24). No funding agreement by the deadline (October 1) means the government, including agencies like the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), shuts down.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 4, 2022

Climate disasters like floods and bushfires could raise insurance premiums so high that properties in Australia will become unaffordable. An Ohio -based nonprofit creates new technology that could break down “forever chemicals” like PFAS. Climate hazards are making Americans more susceptible to drinking water contamination.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 27, 2021

In that time climate change has gone from being a fringe issue to a global priority. President of the summit is the physicist and politician Alok Sharma MP , who previously served as business secretary in the UK government. Green technology and growth: a vision we can believe in. James McKenzie.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Boris Johnson delivers climate change remarks at the UN General Assembly. With just weeks to go before COP26 kicks off, all eyes are on the British hosts and the Conservative government and its leader Boris Johnson. Even the president of COP26, Alok Sharma, has a record in parliament of being hostile to climate action.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Climate litigation emphasized addressing current and past harms, with a spotlight on Loss and Damage. Additionally, investment-related litigation gained prominence, shaping governance in the face of climate change. With climate change already causing irreparable harm worldwide, the focus of climate litigation is shifting.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Carbon capture has never worked as promised, the carbon is dangerous to transport, and the technology is extremely expensive, especially compared to the plummeting costs of renewable energy. This isn’t just a bad bet for the climate, it’s bad for Albertans.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 7, 2024

Back in 2019, at the last face-to-face Assembly, the Swiss proposed a resolution to assess the science and possible governance of ‘climate altering techniques’ aka geoengineering. No steps have been taken towards stronger governance of experiments and development of SRM. Where does this leave us?

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Circle of Blue

MAY 23, 2022

Climate change and mismanagement sowed the seeds of a cholera outbreak. Entering the third month of extreme temperatures, people in Pakistan are confronting yet another calamity linked to an unforgiving climate: a deadly cholera outbreak. A child collects drinking water in Rajasthan, India in 2016. Carl Ganter / Circle of Blue.

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Ocean Conservancy

APRIL 12, 2022

In October 2021, I had the honor of joining world leaders, activists and other representatives from non-governmental organizations in Glasgow for the United Nations Climate Change Conference (also known as COP26). The central message of the conference was abundantly clear: the impacts of climate change are all around us.

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Clean Energy Law

MARCH 15, 2024

Regulated Entities Under the Guidelines, the top 180 companies listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange and the top 50 companies on its Science and Technology Innovation Board of the Shanghai Stock Exchange must publish SDRs annually, within four months of the end of their fiscal year.

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Ocean Conservancy

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Now, as we work to address climate change, new industries, such as offshore wind, will operate in our shared waters. Government agencies, researchers, environmental nonprofits and the offshore wind industry are joining forces through the Regional Wildlife Science Collaborative for Offshore Wind.

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Legal Planet

MAY 1, 2024

There are many different ways that our global society has attempted to address environmental damage and climate change. We fund climate technology startups. We elect representatives that keep the climate in mind. The need for a new OTP policy on prosecuting actors engaged in environmental damage is clear.

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Scientific American

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

APRIL 1, 2021

In their important book: The Race Between Education and Technology, Claudia Goldin and Larry Katz use a supply and demand framework to discuss changes in the U.S I have sketched out this importance race because it helps to set up the pitch for my new Yale Press book " Adapting to Climate Change". This is the bad news.

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Capaccio

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The EPA is proposing stronger regulations to the Risk Management Plan (RMP) program to protect environmental justice communities and against climate change Risk Management Program (RMP). . Climate Change . Climate change is expected to increase the occurrence of natural hazards, which present concern for RMP facilities.

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Capaccio

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The EPA is proposing stronger regulations to the Risk Management Plan (RMP) program to protect environmental justice communities and against climate change Risk Management Program (RMP). . Climate Change . Climate change is expected to increase the occurrence of natural hazards, which present concern for RMP facilities.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 30, 2022

The combination of offshore wind turbines, floating solar panels and green hydrogen are some of the hybrid clean energy technologies currently under development off the Dutch coast. . The flagship wind farm made headlines as the operator, Swedens’s Vattenfall in 2018 won the concession to build it without government subsidy.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

We’ve been hearing a lot lately about geoengineering – the various scientific theories and governance ideas that could eventually lead to technological interventions to help cool the planet. How might those risks compare to the altered rainfall patterns, flooding, and extreme heat that we’re already seeing due to climate change?

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The Putin government has hardly yet been seen to deal seriously with the climate crisis , despite the country experiencing serious climate impacts. Conflicts are bad news for climate action. War and conflicts are bad news for action on climate change.

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 5, 2023

Governments are, it seems, beginning to listen to the growing chorus of scientists who have warned that deploying CDR is essential to avoid catastrophic climate change. Government funding for research and deployment of CDR is increasing. Yet, key issues around definitions, guidance, and climate governance remain.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 13, 2023

March was a tight competition between fossil fuel pipeline, extraction, and oil and gas production companies for who could get the most face time with the federal government. Our lobby bot recorded 103 meetings between oil and gas industry lobbyists and federal government officials from the lobby registry. and Enbridge Inc.,

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 2, 2024

The vehicles, vessels, and equipment that move our freight create hot spots of some of the worst air quality in the country and contribute significantly to climate change. The program is squarely focused on zero-emission equipment and projects – combustion technologies are explicitly ineligible.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 9, 2021

Instead of supporting viable and more cost-effective clean technologies like heat pumps, Ontario is spending more than $234 million to support approximately 8750 connections – a subsidy of over $26,000 per customer. But the answer is not to waste public dollars to build expensive gas pipelines that will exacerbate climate change for decades.

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Legal Planet

MAY 19, 2023

County of Monterey –a major case involving the authority of California local governments to limit oil and gas development within their borders. County of Monterey case raises important and difficult questions for both the justices and the Executive Branch of California state government.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Last year, Congress passed the most ambitious climate bill ever enacted, the Inflation Reduction Act. The legislation committed nearly $400 billion to support, among other things, wind and solar power, battery storage, electric vehicles, and other clean energy technologies that will make a significant dent in US heat-trapping emissions.

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HumanNature

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Guest Post by Philip Cafaro , Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Colorado State University Scientists and climate ethicists argue that more attention needs to be given to population growth’s role in the climate crisis. Addressing population, therefore, must be part of humanity’s response to global climate change.

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