Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The global community expects this type of authoritative scientific assessment on global existential threats from its international bodies; an example is the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that was created to provide governments and the public with regular scientific assessments on climate change, risks posed, and solutions.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 15, 2022

We are in the thick of “ danger season ” (aka summer), that time of year when climate-related disasters such as droughts, heat waves, wildfires, floods and hurricanes are more likely to happen. Not only that, but climate change has made many of these disasters more severe and more likely to occur.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

As climate change accelerates, California faces increasingly severe threats to its communities, economy, and environment. To address the growing risks of climate change, California has developed a comprehensive adaptation and resilience framework.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 8, 2022

The disaster has experts questioning how well Australia is prepared for climate change. This week, Circle of Blue highlights a recent report from the United Nations climate panel. . In its latest report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – or IPCC – issued a blunt warning to the world: You’re running out of time.

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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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Circle of Blue

MAY 9, 2022

Short-Changing Michigan Local Governments Has Resulted in Deteriorating Water Systems and Other Services. It means that vulnerable systems are even more at risk in a changing climate. By Lester Graham, Michigan Radio – May 9, 2022. Throughout the Great Lakes region and across the U.S.,

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Indigenous peoples’ homes have been destroyed along the banks of Loktak Lake, the largest freshwater lake in South Asia , as the Indian government plans major development projects. Federal Water Tap, December 12, 2022 — Lawmakers Finalize Water Resources Development Bill. The [Loktak Development Authority] sees Loktak as a gold mine.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

The Supreme Court soon picked up on this language, and the concept was written into the law when Congress amended NEPA in 2022. This opinion overturned weak fuel efficiency standards adopted by the Bush Administration because the government had not considered the effects of its action on climate change in its environmental impact statement.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 4, 2022

October 4, 2022. Climate change could hike the cost of maintaining Ontario ’s transportation infrastructure by over $1.5 We work together to produce news and information about the impact of climate change, pollution, and aging infrastructure on the Great Lakes and drinking water. Laura Gersony, Fresh Editor.

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HumanNature

MAY 2, 2025

Candidate in the Department of Political Science at Colorado State University Despite being one of the lowest contributors to greenhouse gas emissions that are causing climate change, Africa has experienced widespread losses and damages attributed to human-induced climate change. scientific knowledge.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 6, 2022

An extensive report from the Stockholm International Water Institute describes how freshwater systems and their management have been neglected by global climate change agreements. To minimize the stress on ecosystems, the report’s authors say that governments need to integrate water considerations into their climate plans.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

September 6, 2022. We work together to produce news and information about the impact of climate change, pollution, and aging infrastructure on the Great Lakes and drinking water. September 15-16, 2022: Fall 2022 Smart Ships Coalition Workshop — register. September 27-29, 2022: Great Lakes Public Forum — register.

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Circle of Blue

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. IPCC Climate Report: Six Key Findings for Water — Scientific body warns of ‘rapidly closing window’ for action. . In Recent Water News.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Installations of commercial solarsystems on businesses, schools, and government buildings, for examplewere potentially 13% higher in 2024, per Wood Mackenzie. 2024 also saw many fruits of federal policy, notably the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act , including tax credits for households, businesses, and renewable energy project owners.

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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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Circle of Blue

JULY 26, 2022

July 26, 2022. Climate change is expected to intensify harmful algal blooms, as increased rainfall in the Midwest washes more nutrients into the Great Lakes. We work together to produce news and information about the impact of climate change, pollution, and aging infrastructure on the Great Lakes and drinking water.

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Enviromental Defense

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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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 9, 2022

August 9, 2022. The waste has remained there because the federal government has not established a permanent long-term storage facility. We work together to produce news and information about the impact of climate change, pollution, and aging infrastructure on the Great Lakes and drinking water. Find all the work here.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 13, 2022

What we aren’t talking about enough is the fact that climate change, for millions and billions of people, is not something that’s going to happen — it’s something that has happened.” – Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, the mayor of Freetown, Sierra Leone, at COP26. Only 8,000 incidents were attended. Today’s Top Water Stories, Told In Numbers.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Also in the United States, a new report finds that climate change is making it costlier to insure commodity crops against severe weather. The post What’s Up With Water – February 8, 2022 appeared first on Circle of Blue. About 500 communities applied for funding. To fulfill some of these unmet needs, Gov.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 8, 2023

While there are thousands of people here in Dubai at COP28 fighting for genuine change, the climate summit is facing a barrage of disinformation. Combatting climate change has never been more urgent, and COP28 is poised to advance critical global action. According to The Global Carbon Project , approximately 36.6

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 14, 2023

If 2022 was the year that corporate climate-related financial disclosure jumped out of the boardroom into the headlines, then 2023 may be the year when the global tide quietly turned in its favor. Yet the US government stubbornly remained behind the curve thanks to obstruction and disinformation by a few concentrated interests.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

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. And this is only a small portion of total costs.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 28, 2023

billion in 2022, with about $445 million distributed through the competitive AFRI program. Refocusing agricultural research to include sustainable nutrition science and climate would lead to more resilient and equitable food systems. On top of these trends, the impacts of climate change are accelerating.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 12, 2024

You may have noticed getting price-gouged at the grocery store, but you may not realize that climate change is one of the main reasons why food prices are increasing. Climate change driven droughts in West Africa and Southeast Asia, where coffee and cocoa are grown have significantly reduced supply, and caused prices to rise.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

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? The bill was sponsored by Kentucky state senator Robbie Mills. Who else has been applauded by the KCA?

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Law Columbia

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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Circle of Blue

APRIL 7, 2022

By Jay Famiglietti, Jose Ignacio Galindo, Palash Sanyal, and Li Xu – April 7, 2022. It is essential that industry and investors acknowledge their impacts on water quality and accessibility, including the rapidly growing risks of climate change, and realistically account for their impacts using the best available science.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 20, 2022

Government dysfunction has multiplied drought risks. By Laura Gersony, Circle of Blue — June 20, 2022. Water levels behind Impofu Dam — which forms the second-largest reservoir in Nelson Mandela Bay district — dropped too low for extraction on June 13, according to data released by the local government.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Environmental Defence, represented by Ecojustice, submitted a Freedom of Information (FOI) request in late 2022 to find out what kind of influence developers had on the Ontario Cabinet and Premier in its Greenbelt decision. The government is now under criminal investigation by the RCMP.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 19, 2022

What has Ontario done about climate change the last 4 years? Once upon a time, Ontario was a provincial leader in fighting climate change. But today, there is virtually no climate policy in place in the province, and the Ontario government has resorted to becoming a climate pretender.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

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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Circle of Blue

APRIL 5, 2022

As water crises beset North America, all eyes are on the Great Lakes and the leaders, systems, and rules that govern them. We work together to produce news and information about the impact of climate change, pollution, and aging infrastructure on the Great Lakes and drinking water. The post FRESH, April 5, 2022: U.S.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 22, 2022

As noted at the end of last year, 2021 was significant for climate litigation, with several decisions worldwide providing a fresh look at stakeholder responsibility for climate change. A landmark decision recognizing the impacts of climate change on human rights. In September this year, the U.N.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 17, 2024

The reality, however, is that climate action and affordability go hand in hand. We really can have our cake and eat it too when it comes to addressing climate change and affordability. Governments should do more to help retrofit homes and buildings, especially for lower-income people. It doesn’t have to be this way.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

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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Legal Planet

MARCH 7, 2025

Lets fast forward to today; more than half a century of government housing policy favoring sprawling, car-dependent development has spawned long commutes, increased exposure to air pollution, and segregated communities. But this American Dream has come at a steep cost. miles per day ).

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