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Cultural Heritage is a Human Right. Climate Change is Fast Eroding It.

Union of Concerned Scientists

Climate impacts as human rights violations It’s widely accepted that climate change is the cause of human rights violations for millions of people, including their rights to adequate housing, healthy working conditions, safe drinking water, education, and a healthy environment.

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Climate Change and Indian Country

Legal Planet

In light of Native American Heritage Day last Friday, we should also be thinking about the future of the tribes in the era of climate change. Tribes face serious challenges from climate change, but also some potential opportunities. In terms of climate impacts, many tribes are at high risk. Download as PDF.

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COP28 took steps toward safeguarding cultural heritage from climate change

Union of Concerned Scientists

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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South Korea and Climate Change

Legal Planet

Even so, it compares favorably with the national governments in places like the U.S. South Korea has made significant international climate commitments. In 2021, South Korea set a target under the Paris Agreement of a 40% cut from 2018 levels by 2030. The post South Korea and Climate Change appeared first on Legal Planet.

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Comparing the Risks of Climate Change and Geoengineering

Legal Planet

As Gernot Wagner puts it in ‘ Geoengineering: the Gamble ’: “The decision is all about risk-risk tradeoffs” He urges us to put the risks of potentially pursuing solar geoengineering against “the risks of unmitigated climate change.” The National Academy of Sciences adopted a ’risk-risk’ framing in its 2021 report.

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Climate Change, Danger Seasons and the Need for Global Action

Union of Concerned Scientists

Deadly heatwaves, extreme drought, food and water shortages, catastrophic flooding, rapidly intensifying tropical storms, raging wildfires—around the world, climate change is exacerbating extreme conditions and their harsh toll on people and ecosystems. The fearsome toll of climate impacts is already clear, leading U.N.

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Setting the Record Straight: Climate Change and Wildfires in Canada

Enviromental Defense

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.