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Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 4, 2024
I have been working with this new InfluenceMap dataset in my own research, and here I’ll share how I’m using it and offer a look at heat-trapping emissions from five major investor-owned fossil fuel companies: ExxonMobil, Shell, Chevron, BP, and ConocoPhillips. Let’s look at their cumulative emissions since the 1950s in Figure 2.
Real Climate
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
is a major advance in AMOC stability science, coming from what I consider the world’s leading research hub for AMOC stability studies, in Utrecht/Holland. If you’re not familiar with the issues surrounding the risk of abrupt ocean circulation changes, I briefly summarized ten key facts on this topic last year in this blog post.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 4, 2024
That 2013 headline resulted from the first effort to quantify emissions from the ‘carbon majors’ —fossil fuel companies and cement manufacturers whose businesses have contributed an outsized amount of heat-trapping gases to the atmosphere. This case uses the Carbon Majors Dataset to quantify RWE’s contribution to global historic emissions.
Clean Energy Law
MARCH 18, 2024
For more information on the original proposal, refer to this Latham blog post. For more information on the provisional agreement, see this Latham blog post. Endnotes [1] In order to pass the vote a qualified majority is required, meaning at least 15 EU Member States representing at least 65% of the population. [2]
Legal Planet
APRIL 3, 2023
I can’t do that in the confines of the blog post, but an outline should give you a sense of just the wide sweep of U.S. Administrative law questions, including the major questions doctrine. Cinnamon Carlarne and I have written a book that tries to give an overview of the whole subject, including U.S. and international law.
Legal Planet
OCTOBER 15, 2022
This is the second in a series of four blog posts discussing the issue of development in the wildland-urban interface in California, the current legal structures addressing the issue, and our research on how those legal frameworks are being applied on the ground in key counties in the state. The first blog post is here.
Legal Planet
OCTOBER 14, 2022
In this series of blog posts, we summarize our research and provide the broader legal and policy context, as well as possible ways forward. In our next blog post, we summarize the current legal framework by which California currently addresses (or might address) development in the WUI, and summarize our research. Download as PDF.
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