Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 18, 2025

This long-term impact reflects the delayed response of ocean temperatures and ice sheet dynamics to past greenhouse gas emissions. Importantly, this projected rise is in addition to the sea level rise driven by emissions from all other sources.

Sea Level

Law Columbia

OCTOBER 25, 2024

That’s because the parties to the London Convention and London Protocol are meeting from October 28 to November 1 in London to discuss, among other things, governance of ocean alkalinity enhancement and ocean sinking of biomass (e.g. Some are land-based, while others use the ocean. seaweed) for carbon storage.

Carbon Dioxide

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 18, 2025

Previous attribution research published by my Union of Concerned Scientists colleagues have allowed us to draw causal connections between sources of heat-trapping emissions and resulting impacts, like present day increases in atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations, air temperatures, sea levels , ocean acidification , and wildfire burned area.

Sea Level

Legal Planet

JULY 24, 2025

It’s been a long time coming but nations of the world officially have a legal obligation to limit their emissions of greenhouse gases or else pay reparations for the harms of climate change. The case was filed in 2018 by Vanuatu, an archipelago in the Pacific Ocean that is especially vulnerable to human-caused climate change.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2025

Working Group 3: Mitigation of Climate Change Evaluates pathways for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, sustainable development strategies, and the role of finance, technology, and policy in achieving net-zero emissions. Marine CDR lacks long-term observational data and has potential ecological risks.

Climate Change

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 17, 2024

People now really are discussing the possibility of making intentional interventions to change the climate — or rather, to reduce some of the climate disruptions that are happening and coming due to human elevated greenhouse gases. These interventions would not precisely offset greenhouse-gas-driven climate change.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2025

Working Group 3: Mitigation of Climate Change Evaluates pathways for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, sustainable development strategies, and the role of finance, technology, and policy in achieving net-zero emissions. Marine CDR lacks long-term observational data and has potential ecological risks.

Climate Change

Law Columbia

JUNE 19, 2025

While the court dismissed the claim brought by Peruvian farmer Saúl Luciano Lliuya against RWE, the country’s largest greenhouse gas (GHG) emitter, it nonetheless delivered groundbreaking findings on civil liability for major GHG polluters. When compared to other emitters, the court found that RWE’s emissions were in fact substantial.

Climate Change

Law Columbia

APRIL 10, 2025

Reversing this trend requires urgent action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions but that wont be sufficient by itself. Alaska is thought to be an idea place for seaweed CDR projects, in part because local ocean conditions are well suited to growing seaweed, and also because the state has established processes for permitting seaweed farms.

Carbon Dioxide

Real Climate

JULY 31, 2025

If one was interested in reducing the harms associated with increasing water vapor in the atmosphere, one would obviously start with CO 2 and the other greenhouse gases that are driving up the temperatures, not with the almost negligible effect of direct WV emissions.

Atmosphere

Law Columbia

MARCH 18, 2025

Achieving global climate goals will require rapid and dramatic greenhouse gas emissions reductions, along with the removal of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. Scientists have identified a number of land- and ocean-based carbon dioxide removal (CDR) approaches. ocean waters. judge-made) law.

Carbon Dioxide

Inside Climate News

OCTOBER 28, 2024

By Bob Berwyn A trio of reports released ahead of next month’s COP29 climate conference in Azerbaijan all show that the existing national policies to cut greenhouse gas emissions under the landmark 2015 Paris Agreement will heat the planet by close to 3 degrees Celsius by 2100, as warming has accelerated in the past few years.

Paris Agreement

Vermont Law

DECEMBER 24, 2024

It is time the United States, as historically the largest emitter of greenhouse gases, investigates ways it can support those displaced by environmental destruction caused by climate change. Our own actions have ultimately caused the demise and destruction of homelands, from islands in the Pacific Ocean to Florida.

Climate Change

New Scientist

JULY 14, 2025

This is probably due to warmer ocean temperatures. “We We know what’s causing the warming of sea surface temperature: the emission of greenhouse gases. This dynamic occurs because of how the ocean temperatures that fuel the storms interact with other factors, such as wind shear, to decide their ultimate intensity, he says.

Ocean

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 16, 2024

In 2024, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) issued a landmark advisory opinion affirming that greenhouse gas emissions constitute marine pollution under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).

2025

Scientific American

JUNE 17, 2025

And because roughly 60 percent of global textiles now contain plastic derived from fossil fuels, it is estimated that more than a third of the microplastics in the oceans today were shed from clothing. Some new regulations are meant to make the industry more accountable. million plastic microfibers per wash.

Upcycling

Law Columbia

MARCH 10, 2025

The UNGA requested the ICJ render an opinion on the following questions: (a) What are the obligations of States under international law to ensure the protection of the climate system and other parts of the environment from anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gasses (GHG) for States and for present and future generations? (b)

Climate Change

Law Columbia

JULY 15, 2025

Mitigation targets are to be as ambitious as possible, informed by a nation’s current and cumulative historical greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, its capacity to contribute to mitigation measures, and other national circumstances (e.g. debt, poverty, inequality), with the long-term goal of being carbon neutral.

Climate Change

Vermont Law

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Reforming Oceanic Governance: A Department of Oceans by Joseph Lepak Current federal ocean governance is spread across a myriad of federal agencies in different departments and the time has come to bring them all together. Governing this vast area, four agency mandates prioritize oceans, while other mandates involve oceans.

Ocean

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 14, 2025

For example, warmer air and oceans are contributing to more intense hurricanes , with record-breaking amounts of rain and rapidly intensifying windspeeds. The EPA has found the current (or any increasing) mix of atmospheric concentrations of six greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide, poses a threat to human health.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 11, 2025

Summer Forecast According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the summer of 2025 is forecast to be hotter and wetter than normal, with an above-average Atlantic hurricane season already underway. Shapiro Announces $20 Billion Amazon A.I. Investment; Concerns Remain About Powering New A.I.

Electricity

Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

For each NDC we reviewed, we searched for the keywords “blue carbon,” “carbon sink,” “wetland,” “mangrove,” “saltmarsh,” “seagrass”, as well as broader terms such as “blue economy” and “ocean”. Relevant phrases from NDCs, including these terms, were extracted and analyzed. NDCs do not fully outline how BCEs will be scaled up through funding.

Carbon Dioxide

Physics World

JUNE 3, 2025

These include direct air capture (DAC) and ocean alkalinity enhancement, which involves tweaking the chemistry of oceans so that they absorb more CO 2. Ocean fertilization – Enhancement of nutrient supply to the near-surface ocean with the aim of sequestering additional CO 2 from the atmosphere stimulated through biological production.

Waste

Legal Planet

MAY 9, 2025

Scientific data on wildfires, protecting forests from insects and diseases, the impact of climate change on agriculture, flood risks, ocean plastic pollution and the industries that emit the most greenhouse gases are just a few examples of data that can be accessed on SUSANHub.com and that would otherwise be at risk of being lost.

2025

PA Environment Daily

JULY 27, 2025

Penn State University To Host 5th Annual Online Solar Law Symposium Aug. 19-21, Sept. Penn State University To Host 5th Annual Online Solar Law Symposium Aug. 19-21, Sept. High School As Renovation Work Continues -- DEP Sets Aug.

Conservation

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

establishing that heat-trapping emissions (or greenhouse gas emissions) are air pollutants covered by the Clean Air Act. The 2007 case was brought by petitioners (which included several state attorney generals and NGOs, including the Union of Concerned Scientists) in the context of greenhouse gas emissions from new motor vehicles.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2025

To recap: The unanimous opinion found that nations of the world have a legal obligation to limit their emissions of greenhouse gases or else pay reparations for the harms of climate change. Mackintosh has closely followed the case which was first filed in 2018 by Vanuatu, an archipelago in the Pacific Ocean.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

MARCH 13, 2025

Now we can’t do anything about it and of course greenhouse gases are pollutants that are emitted from the tailpipe of cars that are warming up our planet, our oceans, fueling these 1-in-100-year hurricanes that were seeing twice a year, come in and unleash devastation loss of life and billions of dollars in 5 different states back to back.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 13, 2025

With ocean surface temperatures more than 2 degrees Celsius above normal in the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea, Helene was able to rapidly intensify to a Category 4 hurricane before making landfall in Florida. As my colleague Dr. Marc Alessi noted last year: Helene was an example of what hurricanes will look more like in the future.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

APRIL 15, 2025

The news that started leaking last Friday is that the Trump administration wants to break up the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and essentially end NOAAs climate work by abolishing its primary research office and forcing the agency to instead help boost U.S. Trump wants to Make Weather a Mystery Again.

Law

Ocean Conservancy

APRIL 24, 2025

When I began working on shipping emissions, I was astonished to learn that more than 90% of global trade moves via ocean transport. As you read this, there could be more than 50,000 ships crossing the ocean or loading/unloading at ports around the world. appeared first on Ocean Conservancy. Read more from our new study here!

Nitrogen Oxides

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2025

A former member of Congress from Long Island, New York, with scant regulatory experience, Zeldin promised to defer to the research of the scientists on whether climate change made oceans more acidic. Instead, Zeldin has scientists in a state of bewilderment.

Climate Change

New Scientist

JULY 25, 2025

These conditions were driven mainly by rising concentrations of greenhouse gases , as well as the emergence of the El Niño pattern in the Pacific ocean, which is generally associated with a weaker sink. In 2024, the sink was expected to strengthen as El Niño faded and there were fewer wildfires.

Atmosphere

Ocean Conservancy

APRIL 1, 2025

Fifteen years ago this month, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded approximately 40 miles off the coast of Louisiana, taking the lives of 11 oil workers and causing the release of an estimated 210 million gallons of oil into the ocean. President Trump signed both bills into law in mid-March.

Ocean

Legal Planet

JUNE 17, 2025

Here’s what else is making news… Trump Rollbacks EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin last Wednesday proposed to repeal all “greenhouse gas” emissions standards for power plants under Section 111 of the Clean Air Act. The Pacific Island nation called for the recognition of whales as legal persons at United Nations Ocean Conference in Nice, France.

Clean Air Act

Law Columbia

APRIL 29, 2025

For example, one lawsuit challenges EPAs extension of the reporting deadline for 2024 data under the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Rule. The extension of the deadline followed EPA Administrator Lee Zeldins announcement on March 12 that EPA would reconsider the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program as one of 31 planned deregulatory actions.)

Climate Change

Legal Planet

AUGUST 5, 2025

By ceding federal authority to regulate greenhouse gases, the Trump administration could unintentionally relinquish regulatory powers to California and other progressive states to carry out their own climate agenda, Carlson told the LA Times. But there may be a silver lining of sorts.

Fossil Fuels