Legal Planet

JUNE 21, 2023

It was the site for one of the most iconic climate policy photos. In the run-up to the Copenhagen climate negotiations in 2009, President Mohamed Nasheed held a cabinet meeting in scuba gear 20 feet underwater to show what awaited the low-lying island nation of the Maldives if serious action were not taken to reduce greenhouse gases.

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Real Climate

APRIL 2, 2021

But this also raises other questions: 1) Can we expect the season to continue to lengthen as global warming from increasing concentration of globally well mixed greenhouse gas (GWM-GHG) continues to warm the Atlantic SSTs? 2009 ), a quiescent period of volcanic eruptions ( Mann et al. 778-781, 2009. 2013 ; Sobel et al.

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Washington Nature

JUNE 8, 2021

by Pascale Chamberland, Masters of Public Administration Candidate 2021, University of Washington Evans School of Public Policy & Governance From a massive social media campaign to plant 20 million trees to businesses planting a tree for each product sold, people seem eager to fight climate change using natural climate solutions (NCS).

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HumanNature

APRIL 10, 2023

But this simplified pathway misses a key step in cloud formation–and one that could help us combat climate change. Without these changes to clouds, the Earth would already be warmer. C above pre-industrial levels by 2100 to avoid the most severe impacts of climate change. C temperature target. C temperature target.

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The Energy Law

JANUARY 6, 2010

By Stephen Wiegand On December 15, 2009, EPA published in the Federal Register its final endangerment findings with respect to greenhouse gases. 15, 2009) [[link] This rulemaking is a response to Massachusetts v. Global Climate Research Program, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and the National Research Council.

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Legal Planet

JULY 13, 2021

By 2009, environmental challenges–especially climate change–were severe enough that humans have obligations to understand how technologies can help overcome them and to use these technologies, as appropriate.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

The court determined the project was not in the public interest after weighing the social and environmental costs of the project, including an extended consideration of how the project would worsen climate change. Climate Change Was Recognized as Grounds for the Denial. Section 4.15(1) Four Key Takeaways.

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Columbia Climate Law

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

This blog takes a closer look at how the proposed amendments could affect ESA management decisions for species that are imperiled by climate change. In this context, new tools and approaches are needed to improve protections for species that face an existential threat due to climate change.

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Law Columbia

JULY 1, 2022

While the United States Supreme Court yesterday delivered a major setback to the EPA’s ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions in West Virginia. EPA , courts in other countries this week have issued decisions that demonstrate that courts worldwide remain an important forum for the potential advancement of climate rights.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 22, 2022

We all know that to successfully address climate change we need to phase out fossil fuels and switch to electric power. Between 2009 and 2016, Ontario built over 2000 MW of solar power and about 3000 MW of wind power. Unfortunately, the current Ontario government’s plan is to burn more fossil gas to generate power. .

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

The effects of climate change on farmers are becoming ever more apparent. All farmers need access to high-quality research, and investing in research at the intersection of agriculture and climate change is critical to both short-term and long-term efforts to protect the viability of the agricultural industry.

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Since 2007, only 2009, 2013 and 2014 had more ice at the end of the melt season. Unless and until we get a handle on climate change, these trends are likely to continue. This past summer was relatively cool and stormy, which limited the loss of summer sea ice in the Arctic. But you can help turn the tide.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Just days before the conference she was featured in an article where she attempted to shift blame away from the fossil fuel industry by saying that oil companies can only decarbonize as fast as the rest of the economy – a comment that completely ignores the fact that the oil and gas industry is Canada’s largest source of greenhouse gas emissions.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The fossil fuel lobby meddles with Canadian politics and inserts itself into international climate change politics and diplomacy. 636 fossil fuel lobbyists were part of official country delegations to the last United Nations climate negotiations ( UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, and Conference of Parties 27, or COP27 ).

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Frontiers

MARCH 24, 2023

She is also a fellow with The George J Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions and an associate of the University of Maine Climate Change Institute. Photo credit: Karrah Kwasnik What encouraged you to work towards sustainability, more specifically on climate change issues and sustainable agriculture? “I

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Lawson chaired the Arctic Council’s Arctic Marine Shipping Assessment from 2004 to 2009. Join us in t e l l ing the Coast Guard to lead the way on reducing greenhouse gas emissions from ship traffic at the International Maritime Organization and to better prepare for climate-related changes here at home.

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Our Environment

MAY 21, 2021

Sea level rise within the Pacific has already surpassed the 2007 estimate from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and further predictions infer a further 2m increase within the century. [1] Ideally, the best way to save these islands is to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions. Coastal change in the Pacific Islands.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Between 2005 and 2017 Ontario phased-out coal plants, reducing greenhouse gas pollution from our electricity system by 93 per cent. And between 2009 and 2016, Ontario built over 2000 MW of solar power and about 3000 MW of wind power. Ontario has a successful track record when it comes to building renewable power.

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HumanNature

OCTOBER 26, 2023

In the face of climate change and environmental degradation, the global agricultural sector is grappling with unprecedented challenges. Imagine the sheer futility of the greenhouse gas emissions stemming from the production of that wasted food— hurting the planet for no reason. Penguin Books: London, 2009. [7]

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Law Columbia

MARCH 23, 2023

This blog post highlights three ways in which this pioneering carbon capture and storage (CCS) operation could advance the field—through its economic aspects, climate governance, and the pertinent international legal regime. This amendment was adopted at the 2009 Conference of the Parties to the LP. It enables the provisional (i.e.,

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 14, 2022

The Great Plains Institute , using data from a 2009 Department of Conservation and Natural Resources report , estimates the state could store about 2.4 This is equivalent to the level of greenhouse gases emitted from 517 million gas-powered passenger vehicles annually, according to the EPA.

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Ocean Conservancy

DECEMBER 10, 2021

As I arrived in Glasgow in October for the United Nations (UN) Climate Change Conference COP26, along with leaders, advocates and activists from around the globe, it was clear the eyes of world were on us. The recent report released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) underscored the urgency of action.

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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

With announcements from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) growing bleaker by the year, climate change activism has become increasingly bold and desperate. [1] To avoid the agony of perpetual disappointment, we may need to learn how to embrace despair while actively willing social change.

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Environmental Europe

JULY 1, 2020

The EU is facing a key challenge in climate and energy governance. It has agreed to address climate change under the Paris Agreement , and put forward increasingly ambitious policy targets for 2020, 2030 and 2050. However, it is increasingly struggling to fulfil them. If the Commission detects “ambition gaps” (i.e.,

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Support for resilient and diversified seed systems is critical in the upcoming Farm Bill and can also be a direct pathway to support BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) communities and climate change strategies. Moreover, they have more potential to contribute to greenhouse gas mitigation via carbon sequestration.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

As I blogged about last October, the Northeast’s Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) is currently undergoing its 2012 program review. When the program’s allowance budgets were set for the years 2009 through 2012, administrators assumed that natural gas prices would remain high and that electricity demand would be robust and growing.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), site of the COP28 conference at the end of the month, where government representatives from all UN countries will discuss global efforts to limit climate change and adapt to its effects. Fossil fuels alone – coal, oil and gas – account for over 75% of global greenhouse gas emissions.

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HumanNature

APRIL 12, 2021

Take, for example, the claim that greenhouse gases (e.g. CO2) cause climate change. However, taken by itself, the assumption obscures what a social scientist may see as a root cause – the social drivers of rising CO2 levels which then result in climate change. Get Real: Climate Change and All That ‘It’ Entails.”

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 9, 2022

And it helps lower greenhouse gas emissions to slow climate change and its negative effects.” Background DEP and Reinvestment Fund launched the Green Energy Loan Fund in 2009 with $12 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. It makes air quality healthier in the community. Sullivan in 1978.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Brazil’s National Policy on Climate Change ( NPCC and subsequent regulation ) was adopted in 2009 based on Brazil’s international commitments with the UNFCCC. According to the petitioner, as a signatory to the Paris Agreement Brazil has committed to various duties to mitigate climate change.

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Environmental Progress

JANUARY 20, 2022

The Regulation’s proposed criteria for gaseous fossil fuels (which includes both conventional natural gas, and synthetic gas derived from coal gasification) allow investment in their consumption without restriction in function, scale, or time period, as long as greenhouse gas emissions are no higher than 100 gCO2eq/kWh (see §4.29-31

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 22, 2022

By 2009, a study by Chinese scientists found that cadmium was going into China’s topsoil at around 0.004mg/kg per year. This represents 25% of the potential of all natural climate solutions. Soil can both be a source of greenhouse gas emissions, by releasing carbon dioxide and methane, or it can fix organic carbon. each year.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Global net anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions 1990–2019. Global net anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions include carbon dioxide from fossil fuel combustion and industrial processes, net carbon dioxide from land use, land use change and forestry, methane, nitrous oxide, and fluorinated gases. billion on advertising.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

2: Increasing international climate finance This year, at COP29, nations will also have to agree on the quantum of international climate finance that richer nations will provide post-2025 to help lower-income nations cut their heat-trapping emissions and adapt to climate change. Article 2.1(c)

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Environmental and Urban Economics

JULY 11, 2021

John Cochrane has posted an important blog post about adapting to climate change. I have working on the costs of climate change for 15 years now going back to my 2005 Death Toll paper. I am a microeconomist and I said to Marty; "Many of us know that we do not know what risks climate change will pose.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Harmful algal blooms now rank with climate change as a systemic ecological threat and a severe public policy challenge. In 2009, the U.S. But in approving legislation this year to rebuild infrastructure and fund significant expansion of clean energy and electrified transportation to reduce climate-changing emissions, the U.S.

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Edouard Stenger

JULY 27, 2018

The author was an engineering professor at Cambridge and the Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change and was knighted by the Queen for his work. Verdict: Sustainable Energy does show its age a bit, as some things have changed in the last ten years.… Reinventing Fire (2011).

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