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Climate Change and the Hard-Headed Realist

Legal Planet

As his biographer Jeremi Suri, put it on NPR , “there is one school that sees Henry Kissinger as a strategic genius, as the great statesman of the 20th century with a model for the 21st century.” Kissinger was — and remains even after his death — a polarizing figure. Kissinger also viewed climate change as an economic threat.

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Making Sense of the US-China Joint Glasgow Declaration

Legal Planet

But the very fact that the two countries were willing to sign onto a high-profile joint declaration is a positive sign that rising geopolitical tensions have not made cooperation in areas of mutual interest impossible. Chinese leaders and advisors have insisted that the country’s climate program is simply misunderstood (see here and here ).

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Environmental Law Again Front-and-Center at California Supreme Court

Legal Planet

So it will be fascinating to see how the California Supreme Court resolves this legal clash between climate change-motivated local activism and a longstanding state regulatory scheme for an oil and gas industry that is in the process of being abandoned in the Golden State. That case– Make U.C. a Good Neighbor v.

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Amira Fernández – combating ‘tags’ in STEM

Frontiers

Pharmaceutical biotechnologist Dr Amira Fernández has a passion for disseminating research and the publication of her award-winning book ‘ Té con Ciencia’ (2020) cemented her profile as a scientific communicator. The speaker has introduced students to the new and innovative profiles available to aspiring STEM professionals.

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Massachusetts to Require Disclosure of Energy Usage from Large Buildings

Law and Environment

Lost amid the more high profile items in Massachusetts’ recently enacted Act Driving Clean Energy and Offshore Wind is a requirement that the Department of Energy Resources establish a program requiring large buildings across the Commonwealth to report energy usage on an annual basis.

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Insets vs. Offsets on the Farm

JANZEN AG

We are seeing this with carbon sequestration programs. The food company receives credit for every metric ton of carbon the farmer adds to the soil profile. Farmers can be the beneficiaries of companies looking to offset their GHG emissions.

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Viewpoint: No change in fossil fuel production plans

A Greener Life

Of the 20 countries profiled in the report, none of them have promised to phase out fossil fuel production. This is utterly contradictory, but we can see some of the elaborate justifications for it. And then if we add planned production of new oil, coal and gas, we get the red line at the top – and runaway climate catastrophe.