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Project 2025 Envisions Eliminating Civil Service Protection for Thousands

Legal Planet

UC Berkeley’s Center for Law, Energy, & Environment (CLEE) is sponsoring a series of papers evaluating aspects of Project 2025, The Heritage Foundation publication, entitled “Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise,” which has received attention in the Presidential election campaign. Political loyalists would take their place.

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Making Polluters Pay for Climate Consequences

Legal Planet

Californias Polluters Pay Climate Superfund Act Introduced: Senator Caroline Menjivar (D-20) and Assemblymember Dawn Addis (D-30) introduced SB 684 and AB 1243 , respectively, requiring the largest fossil fuel polluters to pay for the environmental and health damages suffered by Californians as a result of their emissions.

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The ICJ’s Advisory Opinion on Climate Change: Key Takeaways from the 2024 Hearings (Part 1)

Law Columbia

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 States obligations regarding climate change. ii) Peoples and individuals of the present and future generations affected by the adverse effects of climate change?

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Rightwing Authoritarianism vs the Environment

Legal Planet

Project 2025 favors authoritarian presidential rule. It also wants to destroy environmental regulation, especially climate law. There’s no logical connection between a belief in authoritarian government, upholding traditional hierarchies, and views about protecting the environment or the reality of climate change.

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Ask A Scientist: How Can Scientists Drive Change Through Climate Lawsuits? 

Union of Concerned Scientists

The last IPCC report stated that climate-related litigation has influenced the outcome and ambition of climate governance. It also highlighted that outside the formal climate policy processes, climate litigation is an important arena for various actors to confront and interact over how climate change should be governed.

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Beyond Modern Science: The Untapped Potential of Traditional Knowledge & Traditional Leadership for Disaster Management in Africa

HumanNature

Guest Post by Julia Choolwe Munsaka , 2024-2025 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Ph.D. Moreover, Africans are disproportionately employed in climate exposed sectors with 55-62% of the sub-Saharan workforce employed in agriculture where at least 95% of cropland is dependent on rainfall. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

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The Earth Day Women’s Summit Debuts at EarthX 2025 to Elevate Women’s Perspectives & Drive Solutions for Climate Change

Global Green

Importantly, women and girls also bear the brunt of the effects of climate change. Over the past decade, EarthX has convened a diverse group of leaders across industries and political perspectives to focus on pragmatic solutions to environmental and sustainability challenges.