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Taking Climate Change to the International Court of Justice: Legal and Procedural Issues

Law Columbia

Note: On September 26, 2019, the Vanuatu Permanent Mission to the United Nations hosted a workshop on seeking an advisory opinion on climate change from the International Court of Justice. By Michael B. Professor Michael Gerrard gave a presentation about the legal and procedural issues that would be involved.

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Most read articles of March 2022: Secrets of ancient leftovers revealed and endangered shark discovered in pet food

Frontiers

New high-resolution map shows fires caused one third of global forest loss between 2001 and 2019. Even I, as a geographer, was terrified reading all the headlines that seemed to imply that the last patch of the Amazonian rainforest was on fire, which was not true.”. Climate crisis is making endangered mountain gorillas more thirsty.

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Helping Washington’s Coastal Forests Prepare for the Future

Washington Nature

While dry forests experience more severe wildfires and drought, coastal wet forests must contend with a unique set of circumstances, such as changes in land use, increasing insects and disease, and extreme weather events. With climate change compounding these stressors, there is an urgent need to prepare our forests for the future.

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Tom Lovejoy Tribute

ESA

The Ecological Society of America benefited greatly from Tom’s leadership and ability to formulate science-based projections regarding the consequences of climate change and deforestation. I was among the fortunate people to know Tom as a friend and mentor when we were graduate students in biology at Yale, 1964-1970. Hutchinson and R.

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New California Legislation Would Be a Major Step Forward for Climate Disclosure

Law Columbia

Although not a silver bullet, it is likely to have positive consequences of decreasing GHGs, advancing work to prepare for the worsening physical impacts of climate change, and encouraging climate friendly innovations. [10] 12] Here are some details about the proposed California legislation. Times , July 18, 2023. [7]

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The Stream, February 1, 2023: US Government Restores Protections for Alaska’s Tongass Forest

Circle of Blue

Millions of acres of Alaska’s Tongass forest, the world’s largest intact temperate rainforest, will once again be federally protected from road-building and timber harvests. Mismanaged water structure and climate change — Iraq is the fifth-most vulnerable country to its impacts — compound the situation, Yale reports.

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ESA Policy News: February 6, 2023

ESA

Climate: Twenty-seven Democratic members of Congress wrote to US Climate Envoy John Kerry asking him to push the United Arab Emirates to remove Sultan Al Jaber as the head of this year’s U.N. climate talks. Kerry has previously made remarks supportive of Al Jaber’s role in the climate talks.

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