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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JUNE 27, 2024

My own priorities are public health, climate change, and preservation of biodiversity/ecosystems. It is significant because if its huge public health benefits and because it has provided the basis for EPA regulation of greenhouse gases. climate law. I included all laws passed in the U.S., Clean Water Act. Pavley Act.

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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. Simpson, N.

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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. Not by a long shot. .

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 2, 2022

Last week, Senators Schumer and Manchin announced a compromise on a reconciliation bill, called the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 , that includes significant climate and air quality progress and a goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions nationwide by 40 percent by 2030. What’s in the bill? But this bill is a big step forward.

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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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Inside Climate News

OCTOBER 29, 2023

EPA’s annual greenhouse gas report for large emitters show some facilities slashed their emissions while others polluted more than ever. By Phil McKenna Emissions from the largest greenhouse gas emitters in the U.S. By Phil McKenna Emissions from the largest greenhouse gas emitters in the U.S.

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Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

We can explore the issues and pitfalls of this using the ‘simple model’ of the greenhouse effect we explored back in 2007. The simplest model for the greenhouse effect. We discussed radiative forcings and the possibility of feedbacks that change the albedo (a SW feedback) or the absorption (a LW feedback).

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Law Columbia

MAY 22, 2024

On May 21, 2024, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) delivered a long-awaited Advisory Opinion on climate change and international law. This marks the first time that an international tribunal has issued an advisory opinion on State obligations regarding climate change mitigation.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The transition to electric vehicles (EVs) is necessary to decrease climate-changing emissions. By using recycled instead of newly mined materials, reduction of climate-changing greenhouse gas emissions is approximately 64%. The short answer is yes. But this is a complicated question, so let’s dig in further.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 31, 2022

As with many environmental issues, when it comes to climate change and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, this is no ordinary election. . For the past four years, Ontario has been failing on climate change. Will your party commit to reducing the province’s greenhouse gas emissions by 60% from 2005 levels by 2030?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 5, 2023

California is no stranger to the impacts of climate change. From droughts to wildfires to rising sea levels and torrential rains, the state has felt the effects of a changing climate in a variety of ways. Vapor pressure deficit is closely related to temperature and climate change is causing temperatures to rise.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Senate Bill 261 (Stern) requires major corporations to disclose climate change related financial risks, using a framework consistent with that of the Task Force on Climate Financial Disclosures Framework (TCFD). This bill, like SB 261, would be the first of its kind to be enacted anywhere in the United States.

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Law and Environment

JULY 1, 2022

EPA on Thursday, June 30, 2022, curbing the power of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants across the country. Make no mistake: the Court’s opinion will have major implications for how the federal government addresses climate change nationally.

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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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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Diplomats, business leaders, and environmental advocates have gathered in Egypt for two weeks of international climate talks. In this UN forum, the main agenda items are reducing greenhouse gas emissions, adapting to climate extremes, and compensating poorer countries for damage caused by a warming planet.

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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. I got an early taste of this trend while scrutinizing Chevron’s 2022 annual financial report and reading a paragraph that stood out from the usual boring boilerplate.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

This winter, Big Oil companies are announcing their 2022 profits, and records are being shattered. Big Oil is raking in outrageous sums during a climate crisis, capitalizing on rising prices, while life gets harder for the rest of us. How big are the 2022 profits? How big are the 2022 profits?

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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. The short story: Climate change is on track to cost the global economy $38 trillion a year in damages within the next 25 years.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

MAY 19, 2022

Going forward, WFH will also helps us to adapt to the rising climate risks we now face. New climate risk modelling firms such as First Street Foundation a nd Jupiter are mapping the risks of flooding and fire risk that every land parcel may face over the next decades. spikes during summer months. He just looked at me.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

By Anders Lorenzen On the eve of the COP28 UN climate summit, The World Meteorological Organization (WMO), a United Nations (UN) body, has warned that the atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases (GHG) is forecast to continue the trend that resulted in record-high CO2 measurements last year.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

In its recent Climate Lobbying Report , ExxonMobil announced it had withdrawn its membership in the Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA) , a Washington, DC-based organization founded in 1929 to represent “independent,” i.e. smaller, oil and gas producers.

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Real Climate

APRIL 4, 2024

There has been a lot of commentary about perceived disagreements among climate scientists about whether climate change is, or will soon, accelerate. to 2.2ºC of transient climate response, roughly equivalent to to a screening uses equilibrium climate sensitivity of 2.5 26-29, 2022. von Schuckmann, N.G.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 22, 2022

On June 13, 2022, Chile published its Climate Change Framework Law (“the Climate Act”). The Climate Act includes a binding goal of net zero emissions by 2050 at the latest, following the recommendations of the IPCC. The Act builds on international recommendations for effective climate legislation.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Four important global reports released in the last two days set up a deeply sobering context for the upcoming annual international climate talks in Egypt, also called COP27. Source: UN Climate Change 2022 NDC Synthesis Report. Source: UN Climate Change 2022 NDC Synthesis Report.

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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. Note too, that it will be much longer before k-scale models are used in the paleo-climate configurations (e.g. 499-503, 2022. 496-499, 2022.

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Law Columbia

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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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Sea level rise presents numerous climate justice issues. Some of the venues where people are addressing the injustices of climate change are UN climate negotiations, the courts, and community organizing efforts around the world. Climate justice research can help inform these conversations.

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Environmental News Bits

APRIL 14, 2023

Source: NOAA Levels of carbon dioxide (CO2), methane and nitrous oxide, the three greenhouse gases emitted by human activity that are the most significant contributors to climate change, continued their historically high rates of growth in the atmosphere during 2022, according to NOAA scientists.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Japan ) and a second in Yokosuka in 2019 ( Yokosuka Climate Case ). In the 2019 case, the judgments focused on the procedural aspect of the replacement of the coal-fired power plant and discussion of the climate issues was limited. The court viewed climate change as an uncertain future danger.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2023

To identify which fuels should be promoted, CARB calculates the life cycle greenhouse gas emissions from transportation fuels. In these “carbon intensity” calculations, CARB is not allowed to count reductions in greenhouse gas emissions that are already required by law. Agricultural operations are almost uniquely unregulated.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 10, 2022

term, even for the very low greenhouse gas emissions scenario.” As of today, the “extent and magnitude of climate change impacts are larger than estimated in previous assessments.” C in the near?term, Using carbon capture, we may be able come back to that level even if we temporarily exceed it.

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Legal Planet

MAY 19, 2022

Governor Newsom’s May Revise budget proposal includes this item: Methane Satellites—$100 million Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund on a one-time basis to expand the number of satellites launched for methane observations, which would provide weekly measurement of large methane emissions in the state and enhance enforcement capabilities.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Here are the biggest stories of 2022. The Democrats lost control of Congress, eliminating the chances for significant climate/energy legislation in the next two years. Congress ratified the Kigali treaty, which will reduce emissions of super-greenhouse gases. A lot has happened on the environmental front.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

DECEMBER 15, 2023

They have gathered more than two dozen additional stories of how farmers are preparing for and responding to climate change. The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) provided an historic investment of nearly $20 billion in agricultural conservation funding focused specifically on climate change.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Organic practices enhance soil health and biodiversity, foster resource regeneration, and help mitigate and build resilience to climate change. The 2022 Student Organic Seed Symposium and the 2021 Northeast Organic Seed Conference built robust and lasting collaborations. However, challenges remain.

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CEQA Developments

JUNE 8, 2023

In late April the Bay Area Air Quality Management District (“BAAQMD”) promulgated its revised 2022 CEQA Guidelines (“2022 Guidelines”), available here. Thus, BAAQMD drafted the 2022 Guidelines (first blogged on here , which originally consisted of thresholds of significance but have now been substantially expanded and revised.

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