Environment + Energy Leader

MARCH 20, 2023

The 2023 report recognizes the interconnectedness of climate, ecosystems, and biodiversity and the importance of diverse forms of knowledge when it comes to climate change adaptation, mitigation, ecosystem health, human well-being, and sustainable development.

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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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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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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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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 4, 2022

Allegheny College in Crawford County will host the Fifth World Symposium on Sustainable Development at Universities (WSSD-U-2022), June 16–17, 2022. This year's symposium focuses on "Educating the Sustainability Leaders of the Future" and will contribute to development of this fast-growing field.

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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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Yale E360

JANUARY 13, 2021

Although climate change is often blamed for coastal inundation in places like the Bay of Bengal, other factors such as dam building and urbanization play an important role. Scientists say that more sustainable development policies can help blunt the impacts of rising seas. Read more on E360 ?.

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

climate conference gets underway on Oct. 31, 2021, you’ll be hearing a lot of technical terms tossed around: mitigation, carbon neutral, sustainable development. by Wändi Bruine de Bruin, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences As a major U.N. The language can feel overwhelming. “It

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Over the past 20 years, the majority of flood losses have occurred in Asia, where climate change-induced rainfall is expected to hit the hardest. Climate change is poised to thrust billions more into water insecurity. Photo © GKarunakar / Wikimedia Commons. The risks have intensified in the last two decades.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 10, 2024

The latest episode of the Penn State Growing Impact podcast explores how the younger generation is getting involved in climate research and policy. As the world wrestles with climate change and its impacts, there is growing interest in addressing climate change among the younger generation.

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Clean Energy Law

MARCH 15, 2024

In response to climate change, the Guidelines mandate the disclosure of Scope 1 and Scope 2 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, while the reporting of Scope 3 GHG emissions remains voluntary.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Philadelphia artist Miriam Singer designed the visionary scene as part of the Global Philadelphia Association’s campaign to raise awareness of the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations. Speaking at the dedication celebration on Nov. “Watershed Daydreams” by Miriam Singer.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 12, 2021

Joeri Rogelj is Director of Research, Grantham Institute Climate Change & Environment, Imperial College London, UK, and Senior Research Scholar, International Institute for Appl ied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria. Nature Climate Change. In: Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis.

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Global Green

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Ultimately, the message conveyed by Moore is renewable technology is not enough to save our planet from climate change and the only way forward is for the human race to slow down. The post Will renewable energy save us from climate change? How green are renewables? This seems to back up Moore’s movie detractors.

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Clean Energy Law

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Green , James Bee , and Kevin Mak On 3 December 2023, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) unveiled the Singapore-Asia Taxonomy for Sustainable Finance (Taxonomy) at the United Nations COP28 climate conference in Dubai.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 22, 2024

The letter underscores the urgent need for decisive action as the region grapples with the intensifying impacts of climate change and increasing flood events. These initiatives are vital for monitoring and mitigating the impacts of climate change, and for promoting sustainable development and resilience in the region.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The Climate Overshoot Commission recently completed its work, releasing its report at the United Nations last Thursday, September 14. General Assembly and a collection of high-level climate and environment events, including the Sustainable Development Goals Summit , 18-19 Sept, and the Climate Ambition Summit , 20 Sept.

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Frontiers

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

With all eyes on the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) this month, we have curated a list of our best Research Topics addressing the four goals of the conference. degrees within reach, adapting to protect natural habitats, mobilizing climate finance, and tackling the crisis through collaboration. 3) Mobilize finance.

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Nanotech

JUNE 13, 2023

According to the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI), “[t]hese needs could have a near-term impact on energy efficiency, sustainable development, and climate change.” Nano4EARTH also strives to provide mechanisms that support technology development and commercialization of nanotechnology-enabled climate solutions.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 20, 2023

It is not the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, which resulted in UN conventions on three major environmental issues: biodiversity, climate change, and desertification. One is rather obscure: the International Decade for Action on Water for Sustainable Development. There have been undoubted successes for water and sanitation.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 7, 2022

For climate scientists, the war in Ukraine came at the worst possible time as the media attention they would have hoped for surrounding the release of the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report was urgently diverted to the breaking news story of Russia invading Ukraine. Climate risks.

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Scientific American

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

United Nations secretary-general António Guterres is proposing a $500-billion annual stimulus package to meet the Sustainable Development Goals to preserve the environment and end poverty and hunger

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Frontiers

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) parties meet every year at the Conference of the Parties (COP) to negotiate and agree action on how to tackle climate change, limit emissions, and halt global warming.

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Frontiers

MARCH 24, 2023

She is also a fellow with The George J Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions and an associate of the University of Maine Climate Change Institute. Photo credit: Karrah Kwasnik What encouraged you to work towards sustainability, more specifically on climate change issues and sustainable agriculture? “I

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Negotiations at the 28 th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP28) in Dubai, UAE, wrapped up early last week. Despite the fact that countries are already suffering losses due to climate change, the road to a Loss and Damage Fund has been relatively long.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

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. Rising global temperatures are changing evaporation patterns and reducing moisture feedback from forests, disrupting downwind rainfall.

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Our Environment

MAY 21, 2021

With the effects of Climate Change an imminent threat to the world and with cities contributing to more than 60% of Global Greenhouse Gas emissions (United Nations, 2021), future cities will also need to secure sustainable development. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, to stay within 1.5-degree

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Acoel

MAY 1, 2023

Will we have made the necessary changes to reduce the adverse impacts from climate change? In this article I address some of the things that lawyers have been doing in one of these areas – climate change. The Law Society of England and Wales (LSEW) enacted a similar climate change resolution in October 2021.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

By Fu Xiyao Worries about climate change are affecting the family planning decisions of young Chinese. “If I chose to leave my hometown but… climate change is a global issue. When the nest is upset, no egg is left intact.” – Chen Feng, 40, father of one “[Climate change] will only make [raising children] harder.

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Environment, Law, and History

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

A recent issue of Nature Climate Change carried an article by Jonas Meckling & Bentley B. Allan, " The evolution of ideas in global climate policy". The abstract: From carbon pricing to green industrial policy, economic ideas have shaped climate policy.

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Breezometer

JUNE 7, 2022

We’re already experiencing the impact of climate change across the world; now an update from the IPCC suggests weather extremes could become the norm in the near future. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the United Nations body for assessing the science related to climate change.

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ESA

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Attendees were surprised and delighted about the announcement made by the United Arab Emirates’ COP28 President Sultan al-Jabert on the first day of COP28 about the launch of a Loss and Damage Fund that will benefit many vulnerable communities across the globe at risk to the effects of climate change.

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Frontiers

JUNE 5, 2023

The program highlighted the accelerator effect of open science, making it clear that science has solutions to the climate crisis and other critical challenges – but must be openly available to researchers and innovators across the globe for these solutions to be implemented in time to avert disaster.

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Nanotech

AUGUST 22, 2023

NNI states that these needs could have a near-term impact on energy efficiency, sustainable development, and climate change.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

JULY 30, 2021

These rare storms are expected to become more frequent with climate change as a warmer atmosphere can hold (and during storms release!) While increased infrastructure flooding is a major concern in urban areas, riverine and coastal flooding are also exacerbated by development and likely to be amplified by climate change.

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 10, 2019

On December 28, 2018, California adopted comprehensive amendments to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines , which include a suite of provisions aimed at improving the analysis of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and climate change impacts in state environmental reviews. GHG Emissions Analysis. Section 15064.4(2)(b)

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 17, 2022

Internationally known climate scientists, ecologists, agronomists, economists, policymakers and other experts on climate change risks and responses will gather at Dickinson College in Cumberland County for a three-day symposium featuring authors of the newest reports from the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

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