Legal Planet

JUNE 21, 2023

The photo went viral and made clear the threat from rising sea levels to low-lying island nations. An archipelago of small islands south of Sri Lanka, Maldives is the flattest country on earth , the average height of land just four feet above sea level.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 30, 2023

The threat of flooding and erosion is increasing throughout the United States as a warming atmosphere makes precipitation events more extreme and contributes to sea level rise. Inadequate disclosure laws have serious consequences, considering the high cost of flood damage recovery. In fact, the U.S.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 24, 2023

Applicable Law to the ITLOS Advisory Opinion The applicable law for the ITLOS advisory proceedings is determined by Article 293 of UNCLOS. b) to protect and preserve the marine environment in relation to climate change impacts, including ocean warming and sea level rise, and ocean acidification?

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Energy & the Law

JUNE 8, 2022

The plaintiffs allege that they ”have already incurred and will foreseeably continue to incur, injuries and damages because of sea level rise caused by [the energy companies’] conduct.” failure to pursue less hazardous alternatives available to them … “.

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Law and Environment

AUGUST 9, 2021

Many changes due to past and future greenhouse gas emissions are irreversible for centuries to millennia, especially changes in the ocean, ice sheets and global sea level. The post Climate Change Is Widespread, Rapid, and Intensifying — And Terrifying first appeared on Law and the Environment. My emphasis.).

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Law and Environment

JULY 31, 2023

Factor in increases in health care costs and the impacts of hurricanes, flooding, and sea level rise, and, as Senator Everett Dirksen may or may not have said , “pretty soon you’re talking real money.” first appeared on Law and the Environment. And that’s just the impact of heat-related productivity losses. Can We Afford Not To?

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 18, 2021

Gilligan, (Vanderbilt University) Climate change is upending people’s lives around the world, but when droughts, floods or sea level rise force them to leave their countries, people often find closed borders and little assistance. Donato (Georgetown University), Amanda Carrico (University of Colorado Boulder), and Jonathan M.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The foundational document of international human rights law is the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. For example, sea level rise and climate-driven migration from the islands threatens Vanuatu sand drawing traditions, endangering the passing down of important traditional knowledge on kinship, farming, and seasonal cycles.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The latest science shows clearly that the infrastructure in Baltimore will be taxed by sea level rise, extreme heat, and extended droughts. While weather is always variable, a stable climate helps us safeguard against the devastating impacts of extreme weather events, sea-level rise, and disruptions to essential services.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Implementation of these new laws will be the true test of that statement, but they provide an exciting starting point. Prior to this new law, the state was required by law to ensure that statewide greenhouse gas emissions be reduced to at least 40% below the 1990 level by 2030. Climate Change Mitigation.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Presumably Dagsvik and Moen are used to this kind of model, but they seem to be inexperienced with the models used for weather and climate, which on the other hand are based on the laws of physics. The global sea level acts like the mercury in a thermometer because warmer water expands.

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Environmental News Bits

MAY 23, 2023

by Patrick Parenteau, Vermont Law & Graduate School and John Dernbach, Widener University Honolulu has lost more than 5 miles of its famous beaches to sea level rise and storm surges.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 7, 2023

Are the lawsuits preempted by federal law? In their efforts to get the cases into federal court, the oil companies argued that federal law bars state lawsuits about climate change. The arguments come in two forms. Is there a clear enough connection between the companies’ conduct and the harm to the plaintiffs?

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Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Read the full post at the Green Law blog. For example, in Miami, Florida, as the sea level rises and the risk of floods increases, developers are purchasing property at higher elevation locations,… Read more →

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Photo credit Alexandra Gay, member of the UCLA Law delegation that year. Under international law, only countries can be parties to these instruments, not U.S. They are often left to deal with climate effects on the ground, from wildfires to sea level rise to drought, and they can provide a political bulwark of sorts even as U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 6, 2023

Efforts to restore natural flows of freshwater into the Florida Everglades are helping to slow the incursion of mangroves into this important freshwater ecosystem as sea levels rise. At the conference, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) law professor Robin Kundis Craig called for anticipatory adaptation policy planning.

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Law and Environment

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

We’re just incurring the cost in extreme weather and rising sea levels, rather than by paying more for gas at the pump. The post Another Reminder How Difficult It’s Going to Be to Get to Net Zero first appeared on Law and the Environment. We’re not avoiding the cost associated with carbon in fuels by failing to implement TCI.

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 4, 2022

Read the full story from the Southern Environmental Law Center.

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Washington Nature

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

This policy proposal has been heavily negotiated with local jurisdictions and community organizations, and, in the 2022 legislative session, a previous version (HB 1099) nearly passed into law, only to run out of time on the House Floor in the last few hours on the last day of session. Let's get this across the finish line!

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

It also discussed climate change and sea level rise impacts, noting the Bay level could rise as much as 5.5 The Court’s Rejection of Plaintiffs’ Arguments Concerning Sea Level Rise. feet by 2100, and that the rise could occur at an accelerated rate. It found use of fill to raise Area 4 housing units 10 to 14.5

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Today, climate change is the central, though by no means the only, concern in environmental law. The earliest mentions of these terms in the law review literature came in the late 1970s, and only one of the pre-1985 discussions took a comprehensive look at the problem. Third, there was so much else going on in environmental law.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

If we had been optimizing to the new climate from scratch, we would have spent more money on infrastructure; settlement patterns would have been different; cities would have been located further from sea level; and our current population might be lower given the need to grow food in more challenging weather.

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Vermont Law

APRIL 2, 2023

described his own experiences in using sandbags to prevent the sea level rise from washing away his home. He goes on to explain that sea level rise affects more than just homes; the salt water from the ocean has inundated farms and plantations. In an interview, former President Tommy Remengesau Jr.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

trillion Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) rollout, the need for this long overdue investment in climate resilience is crystal clear. For ocean advocates like me who have been tracking the $1.5 In 2023 alone, countless instances of climate-related water system failures have made headlines.

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Law and Environment

JUNE 8, 2022

As reported in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate , “[t]he ocean is essential for all aspects of human well-being and livelihood” and ocean warming, acidification and sea level rise are impacting fisheries and food production and depleting key ecosystem services.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

In states like Pennsylvania that have similar constitutional language, courts have pointed to the amendments as justification for striking down state laws that put a healthy environment at risk. The change could have consequences. The New York vote could rejuvenate a trend that previously flourished in the 1970s.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 29, 2024

Part Three, below, explores preemption questions in the context of other domestic frameworks: California’s climate-disclosure laws and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s GHG emissions reporting regime. Preemption of a state law arises under the Supremacy Clause in the Constitution. See, e.g. , Rice v.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JANUARY 17, 2024

The Northern Great Plains chapter notes that current water rights laws in much of the region make adaptation especially difficult. Sea level rise is also important in the region, causing saltwater intrusion and salinization. Other risks include increasing tropical cyclones and sea level rise.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 13, 2022

Mumbai is on a peninsula and faces severe risks from sea level rise. Mumbai, with a population of 21 million, now has a roadmap for reaching net-zero emissions by 2050. The roadmap calls for Mumbai to get half its electricity from renewables by 2030 and 90% by 2050. Meeting its target will not be easy.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 26, 2021

The same is true in environmental law. Was it a fundamental paradigm shift, re-centering the law on new values? With all this in mind, here are the cases that I see as making up the canon and anti-canons of environmental law. The Supreme Court rejected that interpretation of the law. The issue goes beyond which side wins.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

JULY 30, 2021

As extreme storms become more ubiquitous, Philadelphia is among numerous cities grappling with flooding issues against the backdrop of aging infrastructure, rising sea levels and more extreme precipitation events. chance of happening in any given year, respectively. Flooding on the Schuylkill River from Hurricane Irene, 2011.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 16, 2022

Columbia Law School’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), and the Initiative on Climate Risk and Resilience Law today released an Electric Resilience Toolkit to support policymakers and stakeholders working on issues around electric sector regulation and climate resilience planning.

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Vermont Law

APRIL 2, 2023

Increases in storm frequency, severity, and sea level rise put the Pacific Islanders at greater risk than the developed world from climate change. They do not have time to wait.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 10, 2023

But the science is clear : human-caused global warming is definitely and significantly increasing the odds of severe and once-rare extreme events , alongside driving slow-onset disasters—like sea level rise and the loss of major ice sheets and glaciers —and raising the risk of major tipping points.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Local actors seek climate change damages from the biggest fossil fuel companies through state law litigation. Individuals, too, have brought state law cases. Under the umbrella of common law, these cases involve claims of nuisance, failure to warn, design defect, negligence, trespass, products liability and more.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

During the initial negotiations of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (Convention), AOSIS proposed to set up an “International Climate Fund” to finance adaptation, and an “International Insurance Pool” as a separate entity to provide financial insurance specifically against sea level rise.

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E2 Law Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

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

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