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AUGUST 16, 2021

In the United Kingdom, government leaders are hoping to solve two problems with one effort. The UK government has allocated 4 million pounds for a test run of the concept. government scientists just declared as the hottest on record. The report found that some changes in the water cycle are already evident. Transcript.

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The group specifically referenced the inclusion of heritage impacts in the IPCC’s 6 th Assessment Report and the International Meeting on Culture, Heritage and Climate Change co-sponsored by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) and UNESCO, held in December 2021.

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MAY 9, 2022

As of 2021, 30 emissions trading systems were in force globally, covering 16 – 17 % of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. – Emissions trading as part of a portfolio of climate policies. As a closing note, we reiterate our firm belief in the importance of continued international collaboration on climate change policy.

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JUNE 14, 2021

The researchers could not pin the event directly on a warming climate, but they noted that climate change does play a role in the stability of mountain slopes. and Canadian governments, began testing for PFAS chemicals last August. The amount of rock and ice released in the avalanche was enough to cover Washington, D.C.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2024

In many areas, unsustainable water use has overstretched local water supplies, and climate change is making these supplies more volatile. Government agencies, researchers, and others can provide guidance and educational outreach to help diverters understand measurement and reporting requirements and technical options.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

How will the nations that have ratified UNESCO’s World Heritage Convention respond to the threat climate change represents to iconic natural and historic sites across the globe? If the Committee agrees, then it will be the first time any World Heritage site has been added to the In Danger list because of climate change.

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JANUARY 28, 2025

This may seem like a setback for climate progress in Canada, but it simply underscores the limits of voluntary initiatives and the need for the government to enforce climate-aligned financial regulations. In 2021, at COP26 in Glasgow, Mark Carney helped create the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ).

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

What is missing is the strength of will within government to get this sorted.” – Guy Linley-Adams, a solicitor for Salmon and Trout Conservation. The post The Stream, September 14, 2021: Could Rainwater Harvesting Solve Water Scarcity in Mexico City? “The law is clear and has been since 1991. appeared first on Circle of Blue.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Don’t forget to add on top of that the cost of climate change. From increasing costs of insurance and everyday items like coffee and chocolate, to major expenses when dealing with climate crisis infrastructure damage, like damaged roads, bridges and buildings, we know climate change is expensive.

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OCTOBER 12, 2022

Officials at the state and federal level have launched a full-court press against what the financial industry calls “environmental, social and governance” (ESG) investing. Below is an abridged version of our exchange. Socially responsible investing involves choosing or disqualifying investments based on specific ethical criteria.

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DECEMBER 9, 2024

An assessment would have given decision-makers and the public a chance to better understand how this project would impact the climate, environment, and Indigenous rights before the government had to make a final decision on whether or not it could go ahead. In September 2021, Minister Wilkinson re-designated the project.

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DECEMBER 6, 2021

In the United States, a new mapping project in California has identified a neglected threat from climate change. The recommendations also relate to government aid, including technical and financial assistance to low-income communities and utilities. In the past two decades about 40 percent of its wetlands have been destroyed.

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DECEMBER 22, 2021

In Case You Missed It: HotSpots H2O: 100,00 Displaced as Water Scarcity Ignites Ethnic Clashes in Cameroon – Climate change has made rainfall in the Sahel more variable, straining Cameroon’s agriculture industry and sparking ethnic tensions. “Third Pole” Glaciers Melting At An Alarming Rate, Study Finds. ON THE RADAR.

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APRIL 26, 2023

That would be the straw man erected by defenders of the fossil fuel industry who claim that facing climate change is a doctrinaire liberal policy. This year, many on the far-right are attempting to rebrand Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) investing as “woke capitalism.” Liberate” is the operative word here.

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OCTOBER 4, 2021

Scientists attribute the drought’s severity to climate change, deforestation of the Amazon rainforest, and the La Niña weather pattern. By Laura Gersony, Circle of Blue — October 4, 2021. By the end of this century, the region’s annual rainfall is expected to drop by up to 30 percent due to climate change.

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AUGUST 17, 2021

Federal government declares, for the first time, a Tier 1 shortage due to low water at Lake Mead. The federal government acknowledged changing conditions in the drying American Southwest on Monday, declaring a Tier 1 shortage for the lower Colorado River basin. By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue – August 17, 2021.

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APRIL 14, 2022

That made an investor revolt last week over the giant mining company’s climate disclosures especially notable. It’s also notable that this took place in London, showing that investor worries about climate change are worldwide. Even before last week’s investor revolt, the company was under pressure to address climate change.

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MARCH 29, 2023

Photo by Mathias Reding on Unsplash Climate change litigation has finally reached the world’s highest court. On March 29, 2023, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopted a resolution requesting an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the obligations of States with respect to climate change.

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JANUARY 26, 2023

Their sticky fingers are evident in state legislatures across the country in a fossil fuel industry-led effort to end an investment practice called environmental, social, and governance or ESG investing. What is ESG? ” Kentucky officials are not doing this alone, it is part of a coordinated effort.

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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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NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Representatives Scott Peters (D-California) and María Elvira Salazar (R-Florida), the NCARS bill would improve how the federal government prepares and responds to extreme weather and climate-related disasters. Over a decade, from 2007-2017 , the direct costs of extreme weather events to the federal government was $350 billion.

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MAY 22, 2023

Both extreme heat and wildfires are directly linked to climate change. Since local and state governments are on the frontlines of paying for worsening wildfires, they should also be on the leading edge of holding fossil fuel companies accountable. Source: CCST 2020. In recent years, the costs of wildfires have skyrocketed.

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MAY 26, 2022

The ruling was a landmark for climate litigation, demonstrating the potential power of the courts to help ensure a just climate future. In the year since, there have been even more important advances in climate litigation seeking to hold companies and governments accountable for climate harms.

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JUNE 18, 2021

A new report out of the UK calls on the government to improve the country’s climate adaptation plan. Adaptation remains the Cinderella of climate change, still sitting in rags by the stove: under-resourced, underfunded and often ignored.” – Baroness Brown, the chair of the UK’s climate change committee.

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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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DECEMBER 12, 2023

Germany that the federal government must adopt an immediate action program (‘Sofortprogramm’) under the Federal Climate Change Act (CCA). Unlike in the 2021 landmark ruling in Neubauer et al. These three parties have very different climate policies and visions for climate governance.

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MARCH 2, 2022

Amid claims that the state could be a climate refuge, experts say Michigan faces its own water woes. Delhi’s government will fund two reservoirs along the Yamuna River to boost water supplies. Michigan Faces Water Challenges Amid Bid for Climate Refuge. Experts say climate change is driving more intense downpours.

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DECEMBER 27, 2021

2021 was a year of disasters, with extraordinary heat waves, fires, a string of hurricanes, a cold snap that left Texas in the dark, winter tornados, and torrential rains. First and foremost, there’s climate change, which will result in an increase in the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events.

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APRIL 26, 2022

Riding a mile by bus in this country, on average, contributes 30% less to climate change than riding in a gas car alone. Transportation has been the biggest contributor to climate change in the US since 2016, and its emissions are only projected to increase in the future without significant changes. FHWA, 2021 ).

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JUNE 10, 2024

Climate change creates the right conditions for wildfires to spread easily, but it doesn’t start fires on its own With drier and warmer conditions, Canada’s forests become like a tinderbox that can cause a normal fire to get out of control. It’s happening because of unchecked climate change.

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MARCH 14, 2022

I first wrote a version of this post way back in July 2021, when Ezra Klein dropped a couple of lines knocking the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) into one of the op-eds The New York Times loves to perennially run about how California is actually the worst (I’m sorry it can’t be 80 degrees in March everywhere, guys).

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MAY 16, 2023

In the past two years, however, the things have started trending upward after years of inaction by conservative governments. As in the US, Australia’s climate policy was long a victim of a lengthy period of divided government and political upheaval. there has been strong polarization on the climate issue. As in the U.S.,

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JUNE 15, 2021

A lack of funding and attention from the federal government has left water and power systems in the United States increasingly vulnerable to cyberattacks. Swiss voters reject proposals to mitigate impacts of climate change and improve drinking water. The post The Stream, June 15, 2021: U.S. YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The ExxonMobil lobbying report evaluated 56 trade associations—the 5% of its memberships the company estimates are active on climate policy—on their climate positions. Several lawsuits filed by states and cities against oil and gas companies for their role in climate change also name API as a plaintiff.

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OCTOBER 28, 2021

The government in the United Kingdom announces that water companies will have to prove they have reduced sewage overspills in the next five years. A new survey makes clear the impact climate change is having on migration in India. 2021 Election Preview: Two Cities, Facing Floods and Aridity, Eye Big Public Works.

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APRIL 4, 2024

Youth4ClimateAction in Republic of Korea We are in a critical decade for action on climate change. National governments are the most important systemic actors in the governance of climate action, primarily because they are the only actors with the ability to adopt economy-wide decarbonization measures.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The newly autonomous Bangsamoro government has invited investors to pursue drilling projects in a marsh critical for both Indigenous peoples and wildlife. Having gained its status as an autonomous region, the fledgling Bangsamoro government has invited investors to drill under the Liguasan Marsh for fossil fuels.

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