Legal Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

An electricity plan published in December 2020 calls for a 2030 power of mix of one-third coal, with the remainder divided roughly equally between nuclear, liquid natural gas, and renewables. The post South Korea and Climate Change appeared first on Legal Planet. A law on “green growth” requires carbon neutrality by 2050.

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APRIL 9, 2025

Thats why I believe the Climate Accountability Act is a critical step for Wisconsin, especially given all the ways the federal government is trying to move us backward on addressing climate change. the federal government is trying to move us backwards on addressing climate change.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2025

On April 25, the Department of Environmental Protection announced the release of the 2024 Climate Change Action Plan Update and 2024 Climate Impacts Assessment Report. Visit DEPs Climate Change webpage for more information on these and other Pennsylvania climate initiatives. from 2019 to 2020 and 44.4%

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APRIL 8, 2025

Floods can come from rain-on-snow events and from high spring temperatures that melt the snow faster, and climate change is triggering earlier and faster snowmelt. In the Midwest, Lake Erie has the LEOFS (Lake Erie Operational Forecast System) to better manage water levels affected by seasonal variations and climate change.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

The “ Foul Ball ” survey was published by the UCLA Emmett Institute on Climate Change & the Environment in September. A survey I conducted of 2024 sponsorships across the NBA, NFL, MLB, NHL, MLS, and WNBA revealed more than 60 sponsorship deals with high-polluting companies.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 15, 2023

A Montana state district court has issued its long-awaited decision in a major climate change case brought by Montana children against state officials. Montana represents a sweeping victory for lead plaintiff Rikki Held and her 15 co-plaintiffs–all minors when the case was filed in 2020. In Held v. legal history.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

A trillion dollars of climate finance is being called for every year, and anything that does not meet this call would be miserly. Being stingy on climate finance is self-damaging: climate change is a collective problem, and countries like Canada need to help ensure that all countries are equipped with the necessary funds for climate action.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Ironically, these are many of the same people who also argued that climate change wasn’t “real” just a few short years ago.) Fire suppression costs, alone, more than doubled from below a half billion in 2020 to over $1.2 Fire suppression costs, alone, more than doubled from below a half billion in 2020 to over $1.2

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DECEMBER 30, 2024

The latest data from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) suggests that solar large and small may have generated 27% more in 2024 than in 2023, and that solar might have accounted for 7% of US electricitymore than double its contribution in 2020. Cumulative US utility-scale battery power capacity.

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MAY 27, 2022

That was not the case in 2020, when the number of named storms (30) ended up being much higher than predictions. Here are some in our minds right now: Will this season exhaust the list of 21 names from the World Meteorological Organization, like 2020 and 2021 did? Can we expect more seasons like 2020 and 2021?

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

But that is starting to change, as therapists urge parents to listen to their kids and help them understand that their fears are normal. By Nina Dietz At 21, Olivia Vesovich has already put more on the line for the climate fight than most people, regardless of age.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 14, 2022

While at the Strategic Growth Council, she oversaw over $500 million, annually, in grant funding invested across three program areas (Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities; Transformative Climate Communities; and Climate Change). She also led the development and implementation of SGC’s Racial Equity Action Plan.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 9, 2021

The Hockey Stick became an icon in the case for human-caused climate change, and I found myself at the center of the contentious climate debate (I’ve described my experiences in “ The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars ”). Featured two decades later now in the AR6 SPM is a longer Hockey Stick with an even sharper blade.

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OCTOBER 12, 2022

Together with Scientists for Global Responsibility, we’ve launched a petition demanding that Elsevier and its parent company, RELX, detail their plans to align their business practices with their public commitments to address climate change. But reining in climate change requires us to quickly transition away from fossil fuel use.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Climate change, one of the defining challenges of our time, demands multifaceted approaches to drive action and accountability. Two central players in this arena are climate litigators and United Nations (UN) climate negotiators.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 24, 2023

His lifetime average was pulled up by scores of 7% in 2019, 10% in 2020, and 22% in 2021. As I’ve noted in posts about some other candidates for the Speaker post, however, the 2021 scores in particular included votes that were not directly environmental, like voting to accept the results of the 2020 election (which applied in Emmer’s case).

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Law Columbia

APRIL 9, 2024

In a transformative moment for European and global climate litigation, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled today that the state has a positive duty to adopt, and effectively implement in practice, regulations and measures capable of mitigating the existing and potentially irreversible future effects of climate change.

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Legal Planet

MAY 19, 2022

Chicago is also, as it turns out, ground zero for climate change. Climate change is making old solutions obsolete. Chicago has been confronting an unusual problem that may be linked with climate change. In 2020, the lake level hit a record high, after having hit a record low in 2013.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 16, 2022

These projections show that without additional policies or incentives, the US is very much in danger of not meeting our climate goals. We’re risking more impacts from climate change due to continued reliance on natural gas and oil. EIA also recently reported that US coal exports increased 23% between 2020 and 2021.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 7, 2021

From 1980 to 2020, there were an average of 7 billion-dollar events per year. But from 2015-2020, the average was 16 per year. 2020 had a record-breaking 22 billion-dollar events. And over and above those trends, there’s climate change — leading to a sharp increase in extreme weather events with more yet to come.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

MAY 19, 2022

Given that global greenhouse gas emissions are likely to continue to rise as the world’s population and per-capita income grows faster than the decarbonization of the world economy (declining GHG emissions per dollar of GNP), the climate change challenge will grow more severe over time. spikes during summer months.

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Real Climate

JUNE 25, 2022

and a supportive Nature Climate Change editorial were published this week, extolling the prospects for what they call “k-scale” climate modeling. More subtly, I often get the impression from these kinds of articles that progress in climate modeling has otherwise come to a standstill. 3653-3680, 2020.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 2, 2022

Michigan counts nearly 11,000 agricultural wells, 3,800 of them installed from 2010 to 2020. Amid claims that the state could be a climate refuge, experts say Michigan faces its own water woes. Michigan Faces Water Challenges Amid Bid for Climate Refuge. Experts say climate change is driving more intense downpours.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 12, 2022

However, it is the case that it is more difficult for companies to obtain financing for oil and gas projects than renewable projects due to the mounting impacts of climate change. Below is an abridged version of our exchange. LP: Investor demand for ESG products has increased dramatically, and asset managers are listening.

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MARCH 28, 2023

On top of these trends, the impacts of climate change are accelerating. In practice, this type of thinking treats food production in isolation, rather than in an interconnected system of social and environmental realities, including connections with human health, climate change, and other issues.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 30, 2023

coastline is projected to see an average of 10 to 12 inches of sea level rise between 2020 and 2050, which is equal to the amount measured over the last 100 years. The threat of flooding and erosion is increasing throughout the United States as a warming atmosphere makes precipitation events more extreme and contributes to sea level rise.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

PennFuture celebrated 25 years of fighting climate change and industrial pollution by holding anniversary celebrations in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia to honor seven Pennsylvanians for their contributions to restoring and protecting the environment. Since assuming elected office in 2020, Rep.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 13, 2022

The “ rights to nature ” amendment was passed overwhelmingly by Greater Orlando voters in 2020, four months after a state legislator inserted a clause into an omnibus bill that prevented local governments from granting legal rights to “a plant, an animal, a body of water, or any other part of the natural environment.” On the Radar.

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APRIL 10, 2024

Switzerland , the Grand Chamber established that climate change is “one of the most pressing issues of our times” and poses a threat to human rights. Notably, the Court responded to (and preempted) criticism as to the undemocratic role of courts in relation to climate change (paras. 410-414 and 449-451).

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Real Climate

AUGUST 12, 2021

C is now 500 GtCO 2 starting from the beginning of 2020, with a 66% uncertainty range of 300–900 GtCO 2. Joeri Rogelj is Director of Research, Grantham Institute Climate Change & Environment, Imperial College London, UK, and Senior Research Scholar, International Institute for Appl ied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

“In September 2015, journalists at Inside Climate News reported that, as far back as the 1970s, Exxon had had sophisticated knowledge of the causes and consequences of climate change and of the role its products played in contributing to climate change.

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JUNE 15, 2022

From 2010 through 2020, the cost of electricity from wind fell more than 60 percent, according to the Department of Energy. Globally, too, wind stands to be a leader in what’s to come for fighting climate change. And US wind jobs, currently totaling more than 100,000, should grow right along with the technology and the market.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

While climate adaptation planning is more widespread than ever, the U.N. T here is a huge gulf between what communities are spending to prepare for climate change and what they ought to spend, a new U.N. This gap is widening, as the costs of climate adaptation increase due to rising global temperatures. report found.

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Energy and Climate Law

DECEMBER 8, 2020

By Dr Romain Mauger, Groningen Centre of Energy Law and Sustainability (GCELS) On 19 November 2020, the Conseil d’Etat (the French supreme administrative court) issued a historic ruling in the Commune de Grande Synthe case , potentially the first step towards a landmark climate litigation outcome in France.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Updated analysis from 2020 shows that emissions traced to the 88 largest carbon producers contributed approximately 60 percent?of When thinking about global emissions, don’t picture an individual—point your finger at powerful corporations, specifically the 88 companies that are largely responsible for climate change.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

On the busy agenda for the COP28 United Nations climate negotiations this year are continuing efforts to implement the Global Methane Pledge , which was agreed to two years ago at COP26. With methane concentrations rising, driving temperatures ever higher and worsening climate impacts, it is more important than ever to take strong action.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

The 2020 CEQ regulations did contain language that presumptively limited the geographic scope of the impact statement, so Congress would have had no trouble writing such limits into law if it had wished to do so.

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