Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 10, 2024

Fresh off the heels of the 28 th Conference of the Parties (COP28) in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), the global climate conversation is buzzing with a mix of skepticism and cautious optimism. Below is an overview of the legal mechanisms they are using to reach net zero. This blog was coauthored by Joana Setzer and Laura Peterson.

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Environmental News Bits

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The report explores existing technology, policy, and finance conditions as well as reforms needed to enable global circularity in the mineral value chains of solar photovoltaic (PV) panels and wind turbines.

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Energy and Climate Law

MAY 21, 2021

This volume of the Elgar Encyclopedia of Environmental Law provides an overview of the major elements of energy law from a global perspective. Based on an in-depth analysis of the energy chain, it offers insight into the impacts of climate change and environmental issues on energy law and the energy sector.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 12, 2021

Since temperature targets became international climate goals, we have been trying to understand and quantify the implications for our global emissions. In the 2018 IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C 2 gives an overview of the latest estimates, for different temperature limits and different probability levels.

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Law Columbia

JULY 27, 2023

Today, the United Nations Environment Programme (“UNEP”), with support from the Sabin Center, has published a survey of global climate change litigation that provides an overview of existing cases and a discussion of their key legal issues: Global Climate Litigation Report: 2023 Status Review (“Report”).

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Legal Planet

MARCH 19, 2024

Janet Wilson , Senior Environment Reporter at the Desert Sun and USA Today, opened Panel Three with an overview of the tensions at stake in the Imperial Valley and near the Salton Sea. She described the growing global interest in the area (newly deemed “Lithium Valley”) in pursuit of the “white gold” present in huge quantities.

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E2 Law Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Mandelbaum , a shareholder in global law firm Greenberg Traurig , LLP’s Philadelphia office , is among the professionals recognized on the 2023 City & State Pennsylvania Fifty Over 50 list. Since 1990, he has been an adjunct professor instructing aspiring attorneys at the Temple University James E. Certified Plus by The Diversity Lab.

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Frontiers

AUGUST 3, 2023

Benefit from increased impact and discoverability, a dedicated platform and support team, and rigorous peer review for every paper.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 9, 2024

In a transformative moment for European and global climate litigation, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled today that the state has a positive duty to adopt, and effectively implement in practice, regulations and measures capable of mitigating the existing and potentially irreversible future effects of climate change.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Written by an international consortium of 34 experts, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the extraction from unconventional reservoirs, providing clear explanations of the technology and processes involved. Global unconventional oil and gas reserves and their development; 2. The chapters include-- 1.

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Frontiers

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Credit: Frontiers Looking ahead to the conference Thomas Romano, global head of sales at Frontiers said: “Frontiers is excited to exhibit once again at this year’s Charleston conference. As a diamond sponsor of the event, we’ll be leading and participating in a range of sessions outlined below.

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Frontiers

JULY 20, 2022

A comprehensive overview of current research on marine heatwaves from across the range of marine science disciplines, covering physical processes through ecological impacts. Demonstrating that climate change and global warming results in an immune system responses in livestock. Marine heatwaves. 23 articles | 285,000 views.

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Clean Energy Law

JULY 8, 2021

The report provides an overview of the existing regulatory framework for a CCUS project, which includes federal, state, local, and tribal regulatory regimes, and identifies how the regulatory framework can be improved. Ensuring increased and more effective collaboration between state and federal agencies.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 10, 2023

This year’s webinar topics will include grid-scale solar overview; solar development from the perspectives of the landowner, the developer and the municipality; Public Utility Commission considerations; and PJM Interconnection electric grid considerations.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Part I provides a broad overview of essential scientific research on climate change, delving into critical areas, including climate change detection, the causal links between human activities and climate change, projections of future climate change, and the remaining carbon budgets. C or well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 8, 2021

David Allard, Director of DEP’s Bureau of Radiation Protection, will lead the presentation providing an overview of the decontamination and decommissioning process and how Pennsylvania and DEP are involved.

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 2, 2021

According to the Global Coal Exit List, 503 of the 1,030 biggest coal companies have plans to develop new assets. The 2021 Global Coal Exit List reveals the sluggish pace of the coal phase-out among major coal firms. A group of 42 NGOs has published revised data providing a detailed – and damning – overview of the global coal industry.

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Real Climate

OCTOBER 12, 2021

2019 ) gives a good overview of Manabe’s particular philosophy of climate modeling which was very much focused on getting things to work, and not worrying too much about the details. Manabe’s Climate Modeling. Fortunately, Manabe recently wrote a retrospective on his early work in response to receiving the Crafoord prize in 2018.

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ESA

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The US Global Change Research Program announced that a draft version of the Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5) is now available for a 12-week public review and comment period. Global Change Research Program. Draft Fifth National Climate Assessment. Reviews are a vital part of the NCA5 development process.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Read more here ] Project Canary Overview Michelle Moorman Applegate, Senior Director of Policy at Project Canary , provided an overview of the kinds of assessments, monitoring and analysis the company does for operators of natural gas infrastructure. And so that is a very high level overview of what we're trying to accomplish.

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Law Columbia

JULY 15, 2021

The foreseeability of climate change impacts and the causal connections between local action and global climate change are not always explicit elements of a claim, but they remain critical issues for litigants and courts to address. A new white paper published today examines the role attribution science plays in climate-related takings cases.

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Ocean Conservancy

AUGUST 5, 2022

Because global ocean inequalities take shape in a myriad of ways, our work as an ocean advocacy organization must be thoughtful, agile, intentional and oriented toward our mission: a healthier ocean, protected by a more just world. If you are interested, take a look at the Ocean Justice Community Grants Overview before applying.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 10, 2024

This blog post provides a quick overview of the three rulings, most notably Klimaseniorinnen, and sketches out their most important implications. France and Duarte Agostinho and Others v. Portugal and 32 others , inadmissible on procedural grounds (no victimhood and a failure to exhaust domestic remedies).

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Generate Outages In Extreme Cold - Reliability Of Natural Gas System Remains A Concern [PaEN] -- PJM Urges United Action To Sustain Grid Reliability Through The Energy Transition, Avoid Unreliability Issues Of Natural Gas, Other Generators [PaEN] -- FERC Approves PJM $1.25

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Law Columbia

APRIL 24, 2024

Ultimately, the report is grounded in a global perspective, including regional agreements involving developing countries, for instance, departing from the Eurocentric approach that has prevailed in the existing literature so far. Finally, liability regimes studied go beyond maritime conventions to include contractual liability and U.S.

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Frontiers

JUNE 28, 2023

Open science for global challenges – Frontiers Forum 2023 This year’s Frontiers Forum Live brought top researchers, innovators, and influencers in a common mission to accelerate the global transition to open science and explore solutions to the climate crisis. Find Frontiers in Lyon, July 9-14.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 2, 2023

This article provides an overview of the first interview in a three-part interview series that explores how digitalization is reshaping environmental governance. It has quickly emerged as a global standard for park and protected area management and has been adopted in over seventy countries and over a thousand protected areas worldwide.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 1, 2022

This blog post provides an overview and analysis of climate litigation in Japan as a tool to induce a change in the government’s policy toward coal-fired power plants. In their opinion, the interest to not have one’s health damaged by global warming caused by GHG emissions is a general public interest and cannot be claimed by individuals.

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Global Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Chris Johnston is co-author of The Arrival of the Electric Car – An Overview of the EV Revolution Happening Now. The Arrival of the Electric Car , is a comprehensive, easy-to-understand overview of the passenger EV universe including a buyer’s guide, preparing to own an EV, history and what we can expect in the future.

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Frontiers

MARCH 3, 2022

Researchers from the Technical University of Munich, Germany published a review article in Frontiers in Built Environment that provides an overview of the current state-of-the-art in graph rewriting and its applications in engineering design, with a focus on the built environment. Article link: [link].

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 4, 2021

DCNR’s Conservation and Natural Resources Advisory Council met last September to hear an overview of the proposed changes to the standards. Read more here.

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ESA

DECEMBER 18, 2023

So it is not surprising to find other ecology and global environmental change colleagues attending these morning briefings, or at other RINGO events. We do this prior to the 9am Research and Independent NGO (RINGO) constituency network’s morning briefing and updates.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Development Of Plan In October 2020, the Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority and the City of Pittsburgh launched a global search to develop an innovative stormwater approach to address stormwater management in Pittsburgh. We will over-time build off this plan to deliver effective stormwater solutions across Pittsburgh.”

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

For a broad overview these types of cases, see great earlier posts by my Legal Planet colleagues Dan Farber and Richard Frank. The thrust of the argument is that climate change is a global issue that should be left for federal policy, rather than state courts. Individuals, too, have brought state law cases.

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Frontiers

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Their report, “ The Data Quality Challenge – February 2020 “, provides a comprehensive overview of the current state and future prospects of data quality in scientific research, while the organization itself assists in matters related to establishing a sustainable information infrastructure.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 30, 2021

P PL's response to the CDP Climate Survey provides an overview of the company's energy transition and climate strategy and incorporates the recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Here’s an overview of the newly named species in 2021: BIRDS. This opens new avenues for documenting the diversity of crane flies globally, which I have estimated still remains at least 50 % unknown to science. The newly described Xingu Screech owl. Photo by Kleiton Silva. By Carolyn Belardo.

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