Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2025

Some countries argued that including methods for ocean alkalinity enhancement and direct ocean carbon capture, two experimental marine CDR technologies, could prematurely legitimize these technologies before their environmental impacts are fully understood.

Climate Change

Law Columbia

MARCH 10, 2025

Most participants agreed that greenhouse gas emissions must be reduced and urgent measures must be taken to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement. For instance, Germany contended that the Paris Agreement and the UNFCCC are the decisive treaties to determine the obligations of States in the context of climate change.

Climate Change

A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

By Bernice Lee Following the Paris Agreement, corporate enthusiasm for climate action surged, with net-zero commitments and the energy transition taking a central role in both government and business agendas. Resilience offers a forward-looking approach to corporate climate action and energy transition strategy.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Shell case, for instance, the Dutch courts upheld the ruling that Shell must act to reduce emissions in line with the Paris Agreement. ITLOS went further, clarifying the obligations of states to prevent, reduce, and control emissions, protect marine ecosystems, and collaborate internationally to address climate-related ocean impacts.

2025

Inside Climate News

JANUARY 9, 2025

International agencies coordinate release of annual climate data to highlight the past years exceptionaland dangerousclimate conditions. By Bob Berwyn Nearly all major global climate datasets agree that, in 2024, human-caused global warming for the first time pushed Earths average surface temperature to more than 1.5

2024

Law Columbia

JULY 15, 2025

Regarding the appropriate target, the IACtHR highlighted the international consensus in the Paris Agreement on a temperature increase of no more than 1.5 °C Regulation includes defining a mitigation target, developing and implementing a rights-based mitigation strategy, and regulating the behavior of businesses.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 18, 2025

Previous UCS studies have already linked their emissions to increases in global average temperature , ocean acidification , and area burned by wildfires. The US has pulled out of the Paris Agreement and stopped federal scientists from engaging with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change , a global scientific body.

Carbon Emissions

Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

However, only 42 jurisdictions have acknowledged the importance of blue carbon as a climate mitigation and adaptation strategy in the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) submitted under the Paris Agreement. Relevant phrases from NDCs, including these terms, were extracted and analyzed.

Carbon Dioxide

Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2025

Mackintosh has closely followed the case which was first filed in 2018 by Vanuatu, an archipelago in the Pacific Ocean. “As a matter of law, states must set their highest possible ambition due to the urgency of the crisis.” She organized a major 2024 conference that explored the ICJ proceedings with Prof.

Fossil Fuels

A Greener Life

JUNE 6, 2025

On the day he became president again, Donald Trump signed an executive order to take the US out of the Paris Agreement on climate change. Argentina was the first to say it might not stick with the Paris Agreement. billion in funding pledges from non-US donors, higher than the USD 8.5 billion originally pledged in 2022.

Paris Agreement

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 24, 2025

You may recall on inauguration day how President Trump signed 26 executive orders , 7 of which were attacks on major climate change policies, such as withdrawing from the Paris Agreement. FEMA lost one-third of its staff, many of whom were senior.

Politics

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

In the study, we found that political power dynamics shape international negotiations, that the Paris Agreement temperature goal doesn’t fully account for the dangers of sea level rise, and that climate justice requires fully considering diverse views and experiences of climate change.

Sea Level

Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Representatives from civil society, non-governmental organizations and the private sector gathered alongside governmental representatives to influence decisions and advance contributions toward the goals of the Paris Agreement of 2015. I was joined by Ocean Conservancy colleagues working to advance ocean-climate action.

Ocean

Legal Planet

MAY 5, 2022

Its location between two oceans, as well as its latitude and topography significantly increase Mexico’s exposure to extreme hydro meteorological events.” Mexico’s climate commitment for 2030 under the Paris Agreement calls for cutting emissions 22%, cutting black carbon by half, and achieving net-zero deforestation.

Paris Agreement

Real Climate

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

The basis of this relationship is the rough balance between the net uptake of carbon into deep pools (mainly the deep ocean) and the rate at which the oceans warm in response to an energy imbalance. This figure is from the AR6 SPM: The relationship between cumulative carbon emissions and temperature (SPM AR6).

Carbon Dioxide

Real Climate

AUGUST 13, 2021

However, on the level of basic physical reasoning, it is of course a no-brainer that warming will cause land-ice to melt (and melt faster as it gets hotter) and ocean waters to expand, so sea-level rise is the inevitable result. That depends on our emissions and is shown in the following figure. Source: IPCC AR6, Figure SPM.8.

Sea Level

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 24, 2023

Spearheaded by the Republic of Vanuatu, they want the court to clarify how existing International Law can strengthen governmental action on climate change, protect public health and the environment, and save the save the Paris Agreement.

Climate Change

Law Columbia

JUNE 4, 2024

The Tribunal acted both boldly and conservatively by interpreting UNCLOS as an independent source of international legally binding obligations to address climate change and ocean acidification. The Tribunal emphasized in this respect, “the global temperature goal of limiting temperature increase to 1.5°C

Climate Change

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

goal of the Paris Agreement, but I do think that it will be possible for us to keep warming under 2C and avoid the most devastating effects of climate change. There are options from blue carbon in the ocean to soil carbon and more. I do not believe that we’ll prevent average global temperatures from exceeding the 1.5C

Climate Change

Real Climate

OCTOBER 27, 2021

It’s also urgent because the oceans act like a flywheel, making sure that cuts in emission of greenhouse gases will have a lagged effect on global warming. This fact is underscored by recent weather-related calamities , such as flooding in Central Europe and heatwaves over North America.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 2, 2024

As the Earth’s air and oceans warm, the ice sheet is starting to melt at an ever-faster rate. The Antarctic Ice Sheet has grounded ice, which is ice that sits on the solid Earth below it and ice shelves, which extend out from the grounded portion and float on the ocean surface. These are called marine basins.

Sea Level

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 26, 2022

My research evolved over time, but initially focused on trying to understand how ice sheet collapse—specifically Antarctic ice sheet collapse—could impact climate change around the world through changes in the oceans, sea ice and atmosphere. How did we end up with global average temperature as a metric in the Paris agreement?

Sea Level

Law Columbia

MAY 22, 2024

From COSIS to ITLOS The ocean and climate are inextricably linked. On one hand, numerous adverse effects of climate change manifest in the ocean, such as ocean acidification, temperature changes, and rising sea levels. On the other hand, the ocean plays an important role in combating climate change.

Climate Change

Vermont Law

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Source: Ocean for Climate. “We We are at a tipping point,” warned Angus Friday, Grenada’s Ambassador to the United States, in today’s side event on “The Importance of Addressing Oceans and Coasts in an Ambitious Agreement at the UNFCCC COP 21.” draft agreement addendum. By Annie Warner. December 5. Click Here.

Paris Agreement

Law Columbia

MARCH 15, 2023

The Sabin Center today published model federal legislation to advance safe and responsible ocean carbon dioxide removal (CDR) research in U.S. Controlled field trials and other in-ocean research is critical to improve scientific and societal understanding of CDR techniques that could help the U.S. reach its climate goals.

Carbon Dioxide

Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The planet has accumulated as much heat in the past 15 years as it did in the previous 45 years; the ocean has absorbed the majority of this excess heat. Scientists have consistently warned that the continued burning of fossil fuels is heating the planet, including the ocean.

Ocean

Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

The physics-based models describe how energy flows through the atmosphere and ocean, as well as how the forces from different air masses push against each other. Furthermore, the volume of the oceans increases from the melting of land ice. The global sea level acts like the mercury in a thermometer because warmer water expands.

Sea Level

Ocean Conservancy

DECEMBER 10, 2021

In fact, at this critical moment for the climate and our ocean, there were literally more press credentials distributed than at any previous COP conference. Climate change is here and is bringing with it impacts like ocean acidification, sea level rise and dwindling sea ice. Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails.

Ocean

Legal Planet

JULY 5, 2023

Wildfire in Canada , smoke in NYC , heat domes in Texas , massive heat in the Atlantic ocean are just some of this month’s news. At the top of that list is JPMorgan Chase, the largest funder of fossil fuels cumulatively since the Paris Agreement on climate change was signed in 2016, according to the report.

Fossil Fuels

Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Last week I had the tremendous honor of providing expert testimony on the ocean effects of climate change to the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) in Hamburg, Germany. Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails.

Paris Agreement

Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The Sabin Center wrapped up Climate Week NYC last Friday with an event exploring the opportunities and challenges posed by ocean-based carbon dioxide removal (CDR). As evidenced by the 150-plus people in attendance, ocean CDR is attracting growing attention as a possible climate change mitigation option. ground rock) into the ocean?

Carbon Dioxide

Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

My colleague Courtney Carmichael and I will represent Ocean Conservancy during these negotiating proceedings informing and advising negotiators and interested parties on policy for adoption in this agreement. What are Ocean Conservancy’s priorities for this agreement?

Ocean

Law Columbia

JUNE 7, 2024

Creator: George Stoyle The oceans absorb large quantities of the carbon dioxide emitted by human activities. This “sink” function is so significant that, until 1957, one objection to a causal link between anthropogenic emissions and global warming was that the oceans would absorb most of the excess CO2, thus breaking this link.

Climate Change

Law Columbia

APRIL 24, 2024

Cross–border CCS operations have specific and detailed rules under the emissions inventories and NDCs required for parties to the Paris Agreement. Cross–border CCS operations have specific and detailed rules under the emissions inventories and NDCs required for parties to the Paris Agreement.

Carbon Dioxide

Law Columbia

APRIL 24, 2023

Consequently, the response to this advisory opinion request should consider the climate change regime set by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Paris Agreement (Paris Agreement) concerning the ocean. The question is divided into two parts.

Climate Change

Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 1, 2022

Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Their work paved the way for international agreements to tackle the crisis like the Kyoto Protocol and Paris Agreement. What does this mean for the ocean? The ocean is both a victim of climate impacts and a vital part of climate solutions. As many as 3.6

Sea Level

Ocean Conservancy

APRIL 29, 2022

Earlier this month, ocean leaders from governments, businesses and expert organizations around the world gathered for the seventh annual Our Ocean Conference in the island nation of Palau. Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. © Felipe Victoria(Ocean Conservancy). Stay current. Enter Your Email.loading.

Ocean