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Upcoming Developments in International Governance of Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal

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to 2 o C in line with the goals of the Paris Agreement. But, in 2013, the parties to the London Protocol adopted an amendment that is intended to be. The 2013 amendment has not yet entered into force. environmental disturbance would be minimized and the scientific benefits maximized.”

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A distraction due to errors, misunderstanding and misguided Norwegian statistics

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are used all over the world, based on calculations that quantify the effects of physical mechanisms and the way different parts of the atmosphere are connected to each other. The physics-based models describe how energy flows through the atmosphere and ocean, as well as how the forces from different air masses push against each other.

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Loss and Damage

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After several years of deadlock, parties established a work program on L&D in 2012 (at COP17 in Durban), further formalized in 2013 as the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage (WIM). In the 2015 Paris Agreement , Article 8 acknowledged the importance of L&D and the accompanying decision 1/CP.21

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The ITLOS Advisory Opinion and Marine Geoengineering: More Questions, Few Answers

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The first, known as greenhouse gas (GHG) removal , seeks to mitigate climate change by pulling GHGs – most commonly carbon dioxide – out of the atmosphere and durably storing them. Later, in 2013, the parties to the London Protocol adopted an amendment on marine geoengineering.

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November 2017 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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Department of State to produce correspondence of two officials related to climate change, the December 2016 Paris Agreement, the “legal form” of the Paris Agreement’s provisions, the Kyoto Protocol, and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration , No.

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October 2019 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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Earth Island Institute, Sequoia Forestkeeper, Greenpeace, and climate scientist James Hansenfiled a lawsuit in the federal district court for the Northern District of California challenging federal and state authorizations for a logging project and biomass power plant on public forestland burned during the Rim Fire in 2013. filed Sept.

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May 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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The federal district court for the Northern District of Texas dismissed for lack of standing a lawsuit against the EPA in which an individual pro se plaintiff asserted that EPA restrictions since 1990 on aerosols in the atmosphere had caused global warming. s decision not to participate in the Paris Agreement.

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