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Finding Light in Dark Places: Specific Obligations for Climate Change and Ocean Acidification Mitigation

Law Columbia

This advisory opinion finds that UNCLOS regulates all sources of GHG emissions into the atmosphere as pollution of the marine environment; consequently, States Parties have specific obligations under UNCLOS to address their GHG emissions. 29, citing the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, article 31).

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Recent developments on carbon dioxide removal: Increasing policy support but governance issues remain

Law Columbia

While countries generally do not explicitly reference CDR in their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) submitted to the Paris Agreement, many include the CDR approaches of increasing soil and forest carbon. The Paris Agreement did not reference or define CDR, nor did it define the term “removals.” The Article 6.4

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ITLOS and the importance of (getting) external rules (right) in interpreting UNCLOS

Law Columbia

Thus, ITLOS clarified UNCLOS as a legal basis for obligations to address climate change and its adverse effects, alongside the United Nations climate treaties, i.e. the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ( UNFCCC ) and the Paris Agreement. This is most pronounced in the references to the Paris Agreement.

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Using Clouds to Fight Climate Change

HumanNature

Student in the Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University Most people remember the water cycle they learned in school: water evaporates from lakes, rivers, and the ocean, air carrying this moisture rises, cools, condenses, and forms clouds, and these clouds precipitate water back down to the surface.

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The huge carbon footprint of large-scale computing

Physics World

Together with colleagues, he has analysed Australian astronomers’ total greenhouse-gas emissions over 2018–2019 from “regular activities” such as travelling, using supercomputers and working at large observatories. In 2018 each researcher at the institute emitted around 18 tCO 2 e ( Nat. Source of the problem.

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Environmental Law: Government and Public Policy Towards the Environment

Environmental Science

Air emissions : Any gas emitted into the atmosphere from industrial or commercial activity. Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) : A group of inert chemical used in many industrial and everyday processes such as our refrigerators that are not broken down at lower atmospheric levels and rise to the upper levels, destroying ozone.

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The Fuss about Methane

Legal Planet

OK, on to methane in the environment: The headline here – whether you’re talking about atmospheric concentrations, climate impacts, or emissions – is that there is a lot less methane than CO 2 , but it’s a more potent climate heater and it’s increasing faster. Atmospheric concentrations. Climate impact. W/m 2 from elevated CO 2.