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.
Union of Concerned Scientists
OCTOBER 26, 2022
The suit claims that BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil, Shell, and the American Petroleum Institute misled the public despite clear knowledge that their products cause climate change. For more than 50 years , the fossil fuel industry has obstructed meaningful climate action. at UMass Amherst.
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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.
Law and Environment
AUGUST 9, 2021
The IPCC has released its Sixth Assessment Report on the physical science basis of climate change. Here are a number of the lowlights: It is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land. Widespread and rapid changes in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere and biosphere have occurred.
Legal Planet
APRIL 6, 2023
Most climate change projections end at the end of this century. We’re only beginning to get a sense of the impacts of climate change that far ahead. Basically, the temperature will tend to stick at the same level for a long time. Changes in the oceans will continue over a long period of time.
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.
Legal Planet
OCTOBER 16, 2021
There is another important aspect to what is sometimes called “committed warming,” “climate inertia,” or “zero emissions commitment,” an aspect I wrote about over a decade ago. What are the political implications of the fact that climate change will continue after emissions cease, or even potentially grow worse? degrees Celsius.
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