Environmental and Urban Economics

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Climate change adaptation refers to our individual and collective ability to cope with Mother Nature’s more intense weather punches in terms of extreme heat, drought, fire, flood and many other place based risks. I must acknowledge upfront that I have not interviewed either of them about their climate change adaptation pessimism.

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CEQA Developments

MAY 2, 2022

On April 20, 2022, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District (“BAAQMD”) adopted updated CEQA thresholds of significance that it recommends for public agencies’ use in evaluating the impacts of land use projects and plans on climate change. Land Use Projects. b) or it must include certain minimum design elements.

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SPR Law

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The decision provides clarity to the NYC real estate community that Local Law 97 is valid, enforceable, and constitutional. On October 30, 2023, the New York Supreme Court, New York County dismissed a significant legal challenge to New York City’s building emissions law, Local Law 97 of 2019.

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JANZEN AG

MAY 7, 2021

But real property law—our system for describing, owning, and transferring interests in real estate—continues to exist in the legal dark ages. Maybe climate change contracts involving land will be catalyst for a real property law renaissance. Interests in land are typically recorded in local records.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

MAY 13, 2021

We face a serious climate change adaptation challenge. They are wrong to doubt the ability of our society to continue to flourish in the face of climate change. Climate Change Adaptation Will Offer a Sharp Test of the Claims of Behavioral Economics ," The Economists' Voice , De Gruyter, vol. Rhode, 2012.

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Greenbuilding Law

JUNE 18, 2023

A first ever trial on constitutional protections from climate change is underway in Montana. There are real questions about the efficacy of a declaratory judgment by the judicial branch finding that the executive branch violated the state constitution. Supreme decisions?), Will it be effective?

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The global climate crisis requires immediate action, and we can start here at home in our Commonwealth, where we produce more than one percent of global greenhouse gases annually. Sklaroff recently retired from Ballard Spahr, where he established the firm’s national real estate department. Peduto was selected for the U.S.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 30, 2023

The latest policy brief from the UCLA Emmett Institute examines California’s existing real estate disclosure practices and suggests mechanisms to improve them to account for the accelerating risk of rising sea levels and ultimately inform potential buyers. local land use planning that implements sea level rise adaptation strategies).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The decision flies in the face of the advice of the secretariat of the World Heritage Convention which had recommended that because of slow progress in addressing the dual threats of climate change and over-tourism, Venice should be placed on its “in danger” list. Sea level rise and worsening storms are wreaking havoc.

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Environmental News Bits

MAY 19, 2022

Buyers, many from out of state, continue to gobble up oceanfront real estate where three homes have collapsed this year along N.C.’s Scientists and government officials say climate change is likely to continue to exacerbate erosion. Read the full story in the Washington Post. s Outer Banks.

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CEQA Developments

AUGUST 26, 2022

While Holland & Knight’s analysis of 2019-2021 CEQA lawsuit data is ongoing, the article’s “interim report”, which can be read here , states there is no expectation of change in the magnitude of anti-housing CEQA actions, which most frequently allege violations relating to analysis of climate change related impacts, i.e., GHGs and VMT.

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Law Columbia

MAY 8, 2024

Over the last few years, a unique collaboration involving the American Bar Association (ABA), the International Bar Association (IBA), the Brazilian Bar Association (OAB), and the Law Society of England and Wales (LSEW) has begun to discuss the role of lawyers in combatting climate change and share best practices. John Kerry, then U.S.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

APRIL 24, 2022

In February 2021, Johns Hopkins Press published my Co-authored " Unlocking the Potential of Post-Industrial Cities" and in March 2021, Yale University Press published my book; " Adapting to Climate Change". The link to climate change adaptation is that a WFH eligible workforce can spread out.

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E2 Law Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The regulatory impact of PFAS on otherwise closed sites is also a challenge for the regulated community, including real estate owners and operators. Climate Change and Ongoing Regulations – Climate change issues, such as rising sea levels, continue to affect developers and commercial property owners in Florida.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 24, 2024

Holdings LLC, a real estate property company, has been operating in Lancaster County since 2010. These innovations help them increase their income, grow their businesses, address climate change and lower energy costs for American families. kilowatt (kW) solar photovoltaic system on one of its office buildings.

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CEQA Developments

JUNE 8, 2023

What’s New and/or Noteworthy The 2022 Guidelines cover eight chapters, including thresholds of significance, guidance for assessing project- and plan-level air quality and climate change impacts, and proposed mitigation measures.

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CEQA Developments

MAY 21, 2023

Miller Starr Regalia has had a well-established reputation as a leading real estate law firm for fifty years. For nearly all that time, the firm also has written Miller & Starr, California Real Estate 3d, a 12-volume treatise on California real estate law. “The

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Environmental and Urban Economics

OCTOBER 24, 2021

They have full information about each city's productivity, amenities real estate prices, and quality of life and one element of quality of life is local infection risk. There are other quality of life factors such as air pollution and local climate and topography. Climate change will increase the risk of temperature extremes.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

It has enabled us to grow and evolve with the changes and needs of the park and the community.” Thank you to early Gala sponsors Iron Stone Real Estate Partners and Manko Gold Katcher & Fox LLP.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Given the changing demographics of our population, real estate suppliers will offer rental properties if there is demand. In a renter economy, there would be less support for local NIMBYism and real estate developers would build more housing and this would reduce rent rise risk. 2 (2005): 763-789.

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CEQA Developments

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Miller Starr Regalia has had a well-established reputation as a leading real estate law firm for more than fifty years. For nearly all that time, the firm also has written Miller & Starr, California Real Estate 4th, a 12-volume treatise on California real estate law.

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Clean Energy Law

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Details of the Taxonomy The Taxonomy introduces a “traffic light” system to categorise activities across the eight focus sectors: Green transition category — activities contributing substantially to climate change mitigation by: operating at near-zero emissions; or are on a 1.5ºC–aligned pathway.

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CEQA Developments

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

So stay tuned on that front…) The Court of Appeal’s Opinion The gist of the case’s narrow holding reflected in the published portion of the opinion is that the EIR’s climate change analysis did not employ a methodology previously rejected for lack of substantial evidence in Center for Biological Diversity v.

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CEQA Developments

JANUARY 23, 2023

Miller Starr Regalia has had a well-established reputation as a leading real estate law firm for fifty years. For nearly all that time, the firm also has written Miller & Starr, California Real Estate 3d, a 12-volume treatise on California real estate law. “The

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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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CEQA Developments

JULY 14, 2023

Miller Starr Regalia has had a well-established reputation as a leading real estate law firm for more than fifty years. For nearly all that time, the firm also has written Miller & Starr, California Real Estate 4th, a 12-volume treatise on California real estate law. Section 21189.81

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Environmental and Urban Economics

JANUARY 4, 2022

In this blog post, I will offer a few thoughts related to my research agenda on the microeconomics of climate change adaptation. Climate Change Adaptation Will Offer a Sharp Test of the Claims of Behavioral Economics ," The Economists' Voice , De Gruyter, vol. In my 2015 paper, I discuss the broad issue. Kahn Matthew E.,

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CEQA Developments

MAY 2, 2023

Holding and Analysis The Third District’s opinion in Butte IV is a thoroughgoing and straightforward examination of the Counties’ CEQA claims which broke down into four categories: climate change, historical hydrological conditions, water quality and beneficial use, and changes to the SWP.

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Law Columbia

JULY 15, 2021

For instance, real estate developers have claimed that land use and zoning regulations that seek to reduce exposure to climate change impacts constitute regulatory takings. And property owners adversely impacted by climate-related flood control measures have sought compensation for their harms.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

APRIL 11, 2022

Instead, I will discuss how flood risk (ex-ante) and flooding affects the real estate market and the distribution of income. When one owns an asset, there is uncertainty about how the price of the asset will change over time. Worries about climate gentrification on higher ground will be muted.

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Ocean Conservancy

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Once they find their prime choice in real estate (most often rocks, but sometimes vessels or other organisms), they set up shop permanently. Ocean acidification can harm their growth and shell maintenance, making them especially vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. The post What’s the Deal with Barnacles?

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Greenbuilding Law

MAY 20, 2023

As the business world grapples with demands to combat climate change, the role of commercial buildings in reducing greenhouse gas emissions has come into sharp focus. Chief among the flaws is many of the state programs have been described as sophomoric lacking in the rigor of the legal structure surrounding commercial real estate.

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JANZEN AG

APRIL 19, 2022

Nearly every large food industry corporation today has pledged to combat climate change by reducing its own carbon footprint. McDonald’s Accelerating Climate Action to Reach Net Zero Emissions by 2050 ). PepsiCo Doubles Down on Climate Goal and Pledges Net-Zero Emissions by 2040 ). Climate Change , Walmart).

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CEQA Developments

AUGUST 8, 2023

Miller Starr Regalia has had a well-established reputation as a leading real estate law firm for more than fifty years. For nearly all that time, the firm also has written Miller & Starr, California Real Estate 4th, a 12-volume treatise on California real estate law.

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Greenbuilding Law

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Maryland has enacted the most rigorous state law in the country reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and otherwise addressing ESG stewardship including climate change. Moreover, even with respect to real estate, the government has largely excepted itself when schools, the largest public building type are exempt from this law.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 6, 2022

More News From Australia: As historic flooding continues in New South Wales and Queensland, affected residents say real estate agents should be required to make buyers aware of risks. . Latest IPCC Report Tackles Climate Mitigation. In Context: Removing Carbon from Air, Which Increases Water Use, Is No Simple Climate Fix.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

MAY 6, 2022

Second, home prices do not have to soar in the medium term if real estate developers are allowed to build new housing in these places that have plenty of land. The rise of WFH helps our state to adapt to climate change and to increase the supply of affordable housing! Third, our cities feature many durable buildings.

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