Circle of Blue

AUGUST 3, 2022

Saltwater Intrusion, a “Slow Poison” to East Coast Drinking Water — Summer tourism, sea level rise, and storm surges threaten East Coast wells. A government report last year found that the current strategy of replacing pipes on an “ad hoc” basis will not be sufficient to meet public health goals. Laura Gersony, Water Reporter.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

SB 1145 requires CARB to create and maintain an online dashboard providing the public with information about the state’s progress on meeting its climate change goals, increasing government accountability. A Few Notable Vetoes. Conclusion.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

It’s a privilege to be here representing the Union of Concerned Scientists with my colleagues, peers from other NGOs and wider civil society and government and private sector leaders from around the globe. The blue zone at COP27 holds negotiation rooms, along with the official plenary space where political leaders meet and make decisions.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The results, published in Nature magazine, provide a much clearer, evidence-based picture, which is likely to change government policy in the US and beyond. It captures the changes in mortality rates that are going to happen… the changes in crop yields… the changes in sea level rise, and the damages that will cost…”.

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Acoel

JANUARY 20, 2023

An expensive proposition for government. The first challenge is political: we cannot afford to save everything, so that needs to be recognized and tough decisions will need to be made about what to do and what to save. And it won’t be led by the federal government. The rich, the poor, the elderly, the disabled, the young?

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The stocktake of G20 climate action is outlined in the latest annual report from Climate Transparency, an international partnership of organisations including Climate Analytics, the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), and the Berlin Governance Platform. warming limit of the Paris Agreement within reach, the report notes. Renewables rising.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 20, 2023

This methodology is similar to my own work combining climate science, political science, and history to reconstruct how UN climate negotiations have played out and what that implies for climate justice. The present is always being created out of past actions that led to where we are today.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 26, 2021

The Supreme Court interpreted the statute to place an absolute priority on preserving endangered species, regardless of the impact on the economy or other government goals. In an opinion by Justice Stevens, the Court held that the threat of sea level rise gave a state government standing to bring the suit.

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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Interestingly, this sense of urgency has compelled various scholars, governments, development practitioners, and activists to turn toward the language of security to convey the increasingly dire need to confront widespread ecological change. Guest Post by Julie Liebenguth , Ph.D.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Environmental law, or sometimes known as environmental and natural resources law, is a term used to explain regulations, statutes, local, national and international legislation, and treaties designed to protect the environment from damage and to explain the legal consequences of such damage towards governments or private entities or individuals (1).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 6, 2022

Danger season, together with ongoing slow-moving disasters like sea level rise, is pushing people and ecosystems to their limits in many places. Moreover, in many parts of the world, poverty and structural inequities rooted in colonialism, unfair economic systems, and discrimination are exposing some people to heightened risks.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Many governments and NGOs have already generated reports on the effects of climate change and security. Climate change causes sea-level rise, natural resource scarcity, and natural disasters. First, scarcity of natural resources can change the political economy of a state. The conflict in . that arose from climate change.

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Vermont Law

JUNE 21, 2023

Ask most people, and they will say that we are already living in a catastrophe; just look at the eradication of the coral reefs , the rising sea levels , and melting icebergs. The awareness has increased for sure (which is a good thing).

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Frontiers

MARCH 24, 2023

His premise was that famines, specifically those of the late 1800s, are not the result of ecological disasters as they are often painted to be, but rather are manufactured crises driven by colonial politics. Yes, there are ecological factors at play, but human governance, or lack of governance, creates a stage for degradation.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Instead, it has been to stem and confuse the flow of information about climate change to the public and political leaders. The plaintiffs in Juliana have sued the federal government, arguing that the public trust doctrine vests it with an obligation to protect natural resources that are owned in common and necessary for collective well being.

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Vermont Law

MAY 2, 2023

Ask most people, and they will say that we are already living in a catastrophe; just look at the eradication of the coral reefs , the rising sea levels , and melting icebergs. The awareness has increased for sure (which is a good thing).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 30, 2022

The week in February when Russia attacked Ukraine, government representatives and scientists from around the world were hard at work finalizing the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report on Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Multiple crises colliding with climate change.

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Frontiers

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Monica Montgomery is the Political Director for the non-profit, non-partisan advocacy organization Council for a Livable World. It also really connected my own interest in US politics, and national security, with a more specific focus towards an issue like nuclear arms control non-proliferation.”. Author: Lucy Thompson.

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Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 30, 2019

Also elephants, giraffes, rhinos (of the non-political variety), Cape buffalo, baboons, uninvited monkeys at lunch, hippos, wildebeests, hyenas, warthogs and an unexpected (to me) penguin colony. The most direct effect of the executive order will be on state government operations. Leopard: Thornybush Game Preserve (photo G.Whaley).

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

On September 23, 2022, the United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) delivered a landmark decision in Daniel Billy and others v Australia (Torres Strait Islanders Petition) finding that the Australian Government is violating its human rights obligations to the indigenous Torres Strait Islanders through climate change inaction.

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HumanNature

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Candidate in the Department of Political Science at Colorado State University If we could predict a flooding, drought, or heatwave event one month in advance, how many lives could be spared with more time to prepare? On longer timescales, the ocean connects global patterns through ocean circulation and sea level pressure.

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Science Blogs

AUGUST 29, 2017

Actually, the scientific understanding of the dangers posed by rising CO 2 levels date back much further — at least 100 years — but 1979 was a watershed year, with all sort of reports and high-level meetings organized in response to the growing recognition that we had a serious problem on our hands. Indeed, why not wait a little more?

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Legal Planet

APRIL 2, 2024

degrees Celsius above pre-Industrial levels by 2100) within reach or, at the very least, to reset the parameters within which ongoing political negotiations are conducted. From 2001 – 2019, Mr. Carême was the Mayor of Grande-Synthe, which lies below sea level along the English Channel in the north of France.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 8, 2022

More disappointing, framing outcomes in false binaries of success or failure can lead us to think that the most consequential climate actions only take place at these elite global summits—when action is urgently needed from every single one of us, and, from every institution, corporation, and government.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Basically, I go back to my freshman year geopolitics class from college and the professor who really got us thinking about political geography, but the layers of geography. Political geography of borders and so on, in a complex interplay. Then there’s politics, civil wars, conflicts and so forth.

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Vermont Law

JUNE 15, 2016

While much of environmental law, at both global and national levels, developed in piecemeal fashion, the urgency of climate migrants may cause governments and institutions to develop legal and infrastructural solutions with an ad hoc approach.

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Law and Environment

AUGUST 17, 2023

As more advisory services, investment companies, and public companies have publicized their Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) goals, the U.S. SEC Final Share Repurchase Disclosure Rules Less Burdensome Than Expected , Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance. 4, 2023). [3] 3] See Goldberg et al.,

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

To Build 2nd Bike Trail -- Centre Daily Times: 6 Years After It Reopened, Colyer Lake Is A Treasured Spot For Outdoor Enthusiasts American Rescue Plan Funding -- $11 Billion In Federal American Rescue Plan Funding To PA State Government, Local Governments Has Yet To Be Invested. What’s Your Community Doing?

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Law Columbia

MARCH 14, 2024

The Climate Superfund bills have already attracted vicious opposition from the fossil fuel industry and its political allies and, if passed, will inevitably face vigorous legal challenges. Preemption aside, opponents may also challenge the underlying power of state governments to make and enforce such broad laws.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Lest one thinks this disconnect is a failure of the global climate architecture, the failure lies much closer to home—in the domestic politics in the US and many other countries that continue to favor the interests of the rich and powerful , and fossil fuel companies, at the expense of the health and safety of everyone else and the planet.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

JUNE 9, 2021

So, this logic says that local quality of life causes economics growth if the geography of the location and the political economy of local land use regulation is such that the place allows new construction to take place. In 2021, I have published two books that flesh out this point.

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Ocean Conservancy

JANUARY 18, 2023

Intensifying storms and sea level rise are wiping out weakened wetland ecosystems, eliminating these biodiversity hotspots and leaving the coastal zone and its residents at even more risk. Here are some places to start: Pay attention to politics and vote. A 2021 report found that Indigenous communities in the U.S.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Even before adoption of the 1992 Framework Convention, the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) had proposed an “International Insurance Pool” to pay vulnerable countries based on observed sea level rise. The first explicit use of the term L&D was in the 2007 Bali Action Plan , in a section on enhanced action for adaptation.

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Ocean Conservancy

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

It puts the wildlife and communities that depend on the ocean at risk through impacts like ocean acidification, sea level rise and temperature changes. Climate change is the single greatest threat our ocean faces.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

The federal government argued that denial of the motion to dismiss was based on clear error and that mandamus was warranted to confine the district court to the lawful exercise of its jurisdiction. Federal Government Moved to Dismiss Keystone Pipeline Challenges. Exxon Mobil Corp. Schneiderman , No. 1:17 -cv-02301-VEC (S.D.N.Y.

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Arnold Porter

JULY 16, 2021

Over the last several years the market has seen the increase of environmental, social and governance (ESG) disclosures by public companies occur in fits and starts in reaction to pressures from a variety of constituents, including some of the largest institutional investors.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 27, 2024

That seems to be the Florida playbook for dealing with the climate crisis facing Floridians in the form of rising sea levels and deadly temperatures. The only thing worse than a wet heat is being governed by climate change deniers in a wet heat. If signed by Gov. So, the Republican supermajority in Florida knows the problem.

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