Our Environment

MAY 21, 2021

Rising sea levels and increased intensity of storm surges are playing a considerable role in the degradation of coastal regions in the Pacific Islands. Illustrating the variation in sea levels from 1993 – 2018. Photo credit. Written by: Jack McCulloch. Shows a generally increasing trend. Source: NASA (August 2018).

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Academy of Natural Sciences

APRIL 26, 2021

Born in Johannesburg, Mendel began photographing major floods in 2007 when one in England and another in India occurred within two weeks of each other. © GIDEON MENDEL, From the Home of John Jackson, Toll Bar Village, South Yorkshire, UK, June 2007. Courtesy of the artist. Shared Vulnerability. Photograph. Courtesy of the artist.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The issue of funding for loss and damage was first raised by the Alliance of Small Island States in the early 1990s, when the group proposed that the financial burden of sea level rise in low-lying and small island developing countries be borne by the world’s most industrialized nations.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Even before adoption of the 1992 Framework Convention, the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) had proposed an “International Insurance Pool” to pay vulnerable countries based on observed sea level rise. The first explicit use of the term L&D was in the 2007 Bali Action Plan , in a section on enhanced action for adaptation.

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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Some argue that environmental degradation is best understood as a threat to human security (Barnett and Adger 2007), and others focus on the inextricable ties between human well-being and the health of ecological systems to which we belong (McDonald 2018). Photo Credit: John Englart, Flickr References: Barnett, J.,

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Vermont Law

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Upon starting my internship, I was immediately brought into a long process that had been ongoing since 2007. By Allen Smith.

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 10, 2019

For example, an agency reviewing a coastal development project should consider how impacts such as sea level rise and increased precipitation might affect flood risk in the area and whether the project might further exacerbate the flood risk. 4th 412 (2007). City of Rancho Cordova, 40 Cal.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 20, 2023

When I met former Arkansas governor Asa Hutchinson, I asked about his clean energy solutions and explained that his predecessor Governor Mike Huckabee spoke at a New Hampshire climate conference I organized in 2007, where he affirmed his support for mandatory limits on carbon emissions.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

These factors were followed by other hazards associated with climate change, including fires, storms, sea level rise , ocean climate change, heat waves, drought, and changes to land cover. Warming temperatures, changes in precipitation, and floods worsened the highest numbers of diseases. Climate’s Contagion.

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Edouard Stenger

AUGUST 21, 2017

It is worth noting that if all ice melt in Antarctica, sea level would rise by 60 meters (around 200 feet). Time is running out… Image credits: European Space Agency, Lake Chad, 2007. In the same region, the largest volcanic region on Earth -with almost a hundred of volcanoes – was very recently uncovered.

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Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 30, 2019

Reduce energy use per square foot in state-owned buildings by 40% from 2002-2003 levels. The state has already made significant progress toward the first goal as a result of the 2002 Clean Smokestacks Act and 2007 adoption of a renewable energy portfolio standard (REPS) for major energy producers.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 7, 2025

Systematic measurements of atmospheric CO2 levels begin at Mauna Loa observatory. First paper on risk of sea level rise due to climate change. Antarctic ice cores extend record of global temperatures and CO2 levels back 150,000 years. Measurements continue to present, tracking annual increases.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 6, 2025

In Jakarta, sinking due to groundwater withdrawals and urban growth, lies Lake Pluit, which is below sea level. The district around the lake was inundated by historic flooding in 2007. Carl Ganter/Circle of Blue YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN In a 5-4 vote, the U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

Since 2007, when he ran unsuccessfully for state senator, the industry has been his top industrial sector donor, contributing more than $875,000 to his campaigns, according to OpenSecrets data. Between 1990 and 2016, the sea level off its 2,876-mile coast rose 6 inches , at least partly because the land is sinking.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Back in 2007, the Supreme Court reached a landmark judgment in Massachusetts et al. The 2007 case was brought by petitioners (which included several state attorney generals and NGOs, including the Union of Concerned Scientists) in the context of greenhouse gas emissions from new motor vehicles. What is the Endangerment Finding?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 5, 2023

It was because of smoke during the 2007 wildfire season in the United States, the second worst at the time for acreage burned. Unlike a sunrise that quickly brightens from gold to blinding white, the sun rose behind Half Dome as a pinkish-orange pinhole and bizarrely remained a tiny, reddish-orange pea in the sky more than an hour later.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Back in 2007, the Supreme Court reached a landmark judgment in Massachusetts et al. The 2007 case was brought by petitioners (which included several state attorney generals and NGOs, including the Union of Concerned Scientists) in the context of greenhouse gas emissions from new motor vehicles. What is the Endangerment Finding?

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Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

Following the 2007 landmark Supreme Court case Massachusetts v. 497 (2007), the Supreme Court reversed EPA’s denial. Likewise, rising sea levels, hurricanes, and more frequent flooding is already causing billions of dollars of damage for municipalities, while threatening to displace millions of people in the United States by 2100.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

There is, in fact, substantial scientific evidence that there’s a strong link between global warming and heat waves and coastal flooding from sea-level rise,” I said. The genesis of ExxonMobil’s brazen hypocrisy can be traced back to 2007. But before he was able to do that in my imaginary scenario, I corrected the record.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 18, 2024

In 2007, the Supreme Court held in Massachusetts v. From immense hurricane storm surges, to rising sea levels and intense heat waves, the health and well-being of cities and their residents are threatened by climate impacts that cost cities billions of dollars each year.

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