Law Columbia

JULY 2, 2024

A highly potent greenhouse gas, methane makes a significant contribution to climate change, but has historically received relatively little attention in climate mitigation discussions. That is now beginning to change. laws governing methane removal via atmospheric oxidation enhancement (AOE).

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Last month, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) released a report on a relatively new field of research – atmospheric methane removal. Addressing methane is critically important in addressing climate change – methane is the second largest contributor to human-driven warming after carbon dioxide.

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Tech companies think they can reverse climate change with fancy new tools to take carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. Much of the … Continue reading Trying to reverse climate change won’t save us, scientists warn

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 16, 2021

But what happens when we achieve the goal of zero carbon dioxide emissions from human actions? Does the climate keep warming, stay the same, or even cool? It turns out this is a critical question for understanding what carbon budgets we have in terms of emissions, if we seek to meet temperature thresholds like 2 degrees Celsius.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 25, 2024

The next week has the potential to bring important developments for international governance of marine carbon dioxide removal (CDR). seaweed) for carbon storage. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has concluded that CDR will be needed, alongside deep emissions cuts, to limit global warming to 1.5

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Inside Climate News

MAY 23, 2022

By Phil McKenna Climate policies that rely on decarbonization alone are not enough to hold atmospheric warming below 2 degrees Celsius and, rather than curbing climate change, would fuel additional warming in the near term, a study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences concludes.

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Real Climate

APRIL 6, 2023

The summary for policymakers of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) sixth synthesis report was released on March 20th (available online as a PDF ). There is a recording of the IPCC Press Conference – Climate Change 2023: Synthesis Report for those who are interested in watching an awkward release of the report.

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New Scientist

MAY 15, 2024

The direct air capture industry got a boost last week with the opening of Mammoth, the largest plant yet for sucking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, but questions remain about whether the technology can scale up

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 11, 2024

On July 11, the House-- by a vote of 127 to 75 -- and the Senate-- by a vote of 37 to 12 -- passed and sent to the Governor Senate Bill 831 (Yaw-R- Lycoming) establishing a framework for authorizing the geologic sequestration of carbon dioxide through injection wells. This practice could be widespread in a carbon-constrained world.

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Inside Climate News

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

By Georgina Gustin At its annual conference on climate change this week, the United Nations released a major report saying the world has little hope of reaching global climate targets without quickly lowering emissions of nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas that’s nearly 300 times more powerful at warming the atmosphere than carbon dioxide.

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Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

A study led by the Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research (IDAEA) and the Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies (IMEDEA CSIC-UIB), both belonging to the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), has shown that injecting billions of tons of atmospheric CO2 (carbon dioxide) underground … Continue reading Storing carbon (..)

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 29, 2024

“Characterizing Climate Change from Heating, Not Merely Temperature.” ” Journal of Climate Action, Research, and Policy, 01, 2475001. The increasing greenhouse gases, notably carbon dioxide from … Continue reading Characterizing Climate Change from Heating, Not Merely Temperature

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Physics World

OCTOBER 30, 2021

With the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) coming up next month, it is strange to think that less than 100 years ago global warming was not widely accepted, even among experts. The non-expert in question was Guy Callendar , a British steam engineer doing his own atmospheric research at home.

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 5, 2023

Support for carbon dioxide removal (CDR) is growing globally. Governments are, it seems, beginning to listen to the growing chorus of scientists who have warned that deploying CDR is essential to avoid catastrophic climate change. By Carolina Arlota and Korey Silverman-Roati. o C above pre-industrial levels.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 4, 2024

Can the new advisory opinion interpreting the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) move us beyond the lethargy of unmet climate change policy needs ? By accepting the COSIS request, ITLOS boldly advanced the international law of climate change to take full account of its harmful impacts on the marine environment.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 7, 2023

Attribution science , which is about understanding the role of climate change versus natural weather patterns and climate variability, can help us better understand the connections between extreme weather and climate change, provide new insight into what specific emissions are driving the worst impacts, and help shape climate solutions.

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Greenbuilding Law

JULY 9, 2023

In this blog post, we will explore why targeting methane emissions presents a more advantageous strategy for the United States in its quest to mitigate climate change. Over a 20 year period, methane is estimated to be more than 80 times as potent as carbon dioxide in terms of trapping heat in the atmosphere.

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Environmental News Bits

DECEMBER 10, 2021

To get climate change under control, the scientists say humans must not only stop putting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, we also have to take the extraordinary step of actually removing CO2 that’s already there. Read the full story at KNAU. … Read more →

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New Scientist

AUGUST 9, 2023

Running Tide, a carbon-removal company in the US, has sunk more than 10,000 tonnes of waste wood into the Atlantic Ocean in an effort to reduce carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere – but experts aren't convinced it will work

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Inside Climate News

MARCH 13, 2024

The climate benefits of trees storing carbon dioxide is partially offset by dark forests’ absorption of more heat from the sun, and compounds they release that slow the destruction of methane in the atmosphere, the research shows.

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Environmental News Bits

JULY 6, 2023

Researchers are proposing a novel pathway through which coastal ecosystem restoration can permanently capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Seagrass and mangroves — known as blue carbon ecosystems — naturally capture carbon through photosynthesis, which converts carbon dioxide into living tissue.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 9, 2024

Earlier this year, ExxonMobil released its annual Advancing Climate Solutions report detailing the company’s current and planned contributions to a net-zero future. These kinds of curves are fairly standard when comparing strategies to address climate change as you can see in the comparable figure below. Who needs units anyway?

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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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Legal Planet

AUGUST 2, 2022

Assessments by the IPCC have made clear that the most feasible way for the world to meet its target of restricting climate change to below two degrees Celsius of warming includes rapid and massive expansion of carbon removal technology – technology that would extract carbon dioxide and permanently sequester that carbon dioxide underground.

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Inside Climate News

JANUARY 26, 2023

Grinding and spreading certain types of minerals pulls carbon dioxide from the air, but it takes a lot of rock dust, land and time to see results.

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Scientific American

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Instead of sucking planet-warming carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, some scientists are looking to capture it from the oceans

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The frightful phenomenon is on a scale proportional to and correlated with the climate altering changes in Earth’s atmosphere. Gases from the atmosphere get absorbed by the ocean and gases dissolved in the ocean are released into the atmosphere.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

One strategy is to counterbalance carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions that contribute to climate change by drawing an equal amount of carbon out of the atmosphere, such as through planting trees. Reports from these studies and partnerships are found on the DCNR website.

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Environmental News Bits

DECEMBER 8, 2023

For decades, scientists have tried to figure out ways to reverse climate change by pulling carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and storing it underground.

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 28, 2022

greenhouse gas emissions, a big driver of climate change. Some farmers, like Bishop, are turning to an inexpensive solution to capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere: cover crops. Read the full story from St. The agriculture industry accounts for 10% of total U.S.

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Environmental News Bits

APRIL 3, 2024

King, University of Sheffield Tackling climate change by planting trees has an intuitive appeal. They absorb the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide from the atmosphere without using expensive technology. The suggestion that you can plant trees to offset your carbon emissions is widespread.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 3, 2023

Climate change is shifting so much about our world, from earlier blooms on Japan’s iconic cherry blossoms to rapid loss es of glaciers and ice sheets. Climate change is drying out our forests, priming them to burn. When plants perform photosynthesis, they open their pores to exchange oxygen for carbon dioxide.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

To meet emissions goals and avoid the worst impacts of climate change, this trend will need to accelerate over the coming decades. Benefits of cutting gasoline use Reducing gasoline consumption has several benefits, chiefly the reduction in tailpipe emissions that lead to both climate change and poor air quality.

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Breezometer

APRIL 6, 2022

Researchers have found that over the past couple of decades, climate change is making pollen seasons in North America around 20 days longer and about 21% more potent. Understanding Climate Change Impact On US Pollen Seasons: Why Is Pollen Increasing? Increasing Levels Of Carbon Dioxide In The Atmosphere.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The labs – including CERN, the European Space Agency, Fermilab and the Los Alamos National Laboratory – have announced that they will step up their scientific collaboration on carbon-neutral energy and climate change as well as share best practices to improve the carbon footprint of big-science facilities. Eager to learn.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Today, climate change is the central, though by no means the only, concern in environmental law. I found only one relevant reference using the term “climate change” before 1985. In one sentence of a 1975 article, John Barton referred to “climate change” as a potentially severe long-term problem.

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Inside Climate News

MARCH 29, 2024

Made from heating wood and other biomass at high temperatures with no oxygen, biochar mixed in soils dominated the carbon offset marketplace last year in tons of warming gases absorbed from the atmosphere.

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