Legal Planet

MAY 5, 2022

The geography is extremely diverse, featuring high mountains, deserts, and rainforest. Its location between two oceans, as well as its latitude and topography significantly increase Mexico’s exposure to extreme hydro meteorological events.” As always, the poor will be the most vulnerable to climate change.

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Inside Climate News

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Best estimates to date suggest that the global surface temperature would stabilize within a few decades, but the new paper in the journal Frontiers in Science examines the uncertainties around that conclusion, including how the planet’s key carbon dioxide-absorbing systems, like forests and oceans, will respond.

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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. A 2022 Rainforest Action Network repor t found that “fossil fuel financing from the world’s 60 largest banks has reached USD $4.6 The leading edge of that disruption is already here.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 21, 2023

Photo: Guss B on Unsplash Earth Day is an opportunity to celebrate the awe-inspiring wonders on this planet — a place full of biodiversity hotspots, from lush rainforests to scenic mountain ranges, home to rich, endemic species. International agreements, such as the Paris Agreement, and domestic legislation in the U.S.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Cop stands for conference of the parties under the UNFCCC, and the annual meetings have swung between fractious and soporific, interspersed with moments of high drama and the occasional triumph ( the Paris agreement in 2015 ) and disaster (Copenhagen in 2009). Why do we need a Cop – don’t we already have the Paris agreement?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 2, 2022

At the beginning of COP 27, the Rainforest Action Network, in a report endorsed by many environmental groups, found that Bank of America, J.P. A 2019 UCS study found that Shell, Chevron, ExxonMobil and BP were four of the top seven historical and current contributors of carbon dioxide to the world’s oceans, fueling their acidification.

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