Legal Planet

JUNE 29, 2023

This article is a summary of the third interview in a three-part interview series that explores how digitalization is reshaping environmental governance. Through his research, Kruk maps out a variety of ways that sustainability assurance initiatives use digital technologies to govern sustainable food production.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 2, 2023

The “for one year” part is crucial: stratospheric aerosols stay in the atmosphere roughly a year, so one gram offsets the heating effect of one ton only for the first year after the ton is emitted. After that, the sulfur is gone but the CO 2 is still there and heating.) This may be on the cusp of changing, but it hasn’t yet.).

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Toronto | Traditional territories of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishinaabeg, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat – We are disappointed to see the Ontario government make unsupported claims about the proposed federal clean electricity regulations. Ontario is going the wrong way when it comes to clean electricity.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 16, 2021

In the United Kingdom, government leaders are hoping to solve two problems with one effort. The UK government has allocated 4 million pounds for a test run of the concept. government scientists just declared as the hottest on record. Transcript. I’m Eileen Wray-McCann. The rapid melting event occurred in a month that the U.S.

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 31, 2024

But that hides hydrogen’s dirty secret – when it leaks into the atmosphere it actually does contribute to global heating. We have cost-effective, proven, and reliable solutions that are ready today—including solar, wind, and battery storage—which continue to be underfunded by all levels of government. And it leaks a lot.

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Law Columbia

JULY 2, 2024

In addition to investigating new ways to control methane emissions, scientists are also researching the possibility of removing methane already in the atmosphere. Those issues are explored in a new report by researchers at the Sabin Center, Removing Methane via Atmospheric Oxidation Enhancement: The Legal Landscape.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 7, 2023

This research determines the relative contributions of different emission sources, including the oil and gas, agricultural, industrial, and transportation sectors, to the overall increase in heat-trapping gas concentrations in the atmosphere. Climate source attribution studies can inform strategies to reduce carbon emissions.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 17, 2023

In the US, when we check our local weather forecast, when our communities are recovering from an extreme weather event, or when our fisherfolk are at sea catching food, we are benefitting from the work of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). NOAA has three main goals under its mission: “1. In 1977, Rep.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 5, 2024

Why would the government be ending it now with little notice?” Canadians are just now learning about heat pumps, the industry is booming, yet the government is pulling the rug out? The groups are calling on the Federal government to not only continue this program but to also expand the incentives to retrofit low-income homes.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Pennsylvania Sea Grant is supported by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Penn State University, and through federal, state, and local funding. For additional details or questions, contact Amber Stilwell, Pennsylvania Sea Grant’s Lake Erie Coastal Outreach Specialist at ars26@psu.edu.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 10, 2024

Without the considerable carbon absorption capacity of our lands (and oceans), we’d currently have much more CO 2 in the atmosphere and an accelerated timeline of warming. Both gradual and abrupt thaw can release huge amounts of methane and carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, further exacerbating warming.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The atmosphere for climate litigation in our Supreme Court is decidedly chilly. In a pathbreaking opinion, the German Constitutional Court ordered the government to adopt much stricter emissions targets for 2030. Some of its peers in other countries have taken a much different approach. C as possible. The Netherlands.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 24, 2024

Reuters described the decision as “a protest of Washington’s arms sales to the democratically governed island of Taiwan.” When Lin said the “political atmosphere for continuing the arms control consultations” was “seriously compromised,” he wasn’t just talking about arms sales to Taiwan.

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Law and Environment

JANUARY 9, 2023

Today, the New York Times reported that a recent assessment shows that the world is on track to reach pre-1980 levels of upper atmosphere ozone by roughly 2040. Especially when it’s good news about effective international cooperation on environmental protection issues. . There was no punishment.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Scientists attribute the drought’s severity to climate change, deforestation of the Amazon rainforest, and the La Niña weather pattern, a cycle caused by natural oscillations in oceanic and atmospheric temperatures which tends to desiccate Argentina and southern Brazil every few years.

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Inside Climate News

DECEMBER 11, 2024

government science itself faces an uncertain future. NOAA scientists and affiliated researchers have documented profound change in the frozen north as U.S.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 23, 2023

That adds up to something in the ballpark of fifty million tons of CO2 that California kept out of the atmosphere during that decade beyond what happened in the power sector nationally. Over the course of the decade, then, about a quarter of California’s reduction was over and beyond the national trend. Some Puzzles Remain.

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

In the halls of Congress, legislators are at a standstill on funding the federal government for the next fiscal year (FY24). No funding agreement by the deadline (October 1) means the government, including agencies like the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), shuts down.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 28, 2023

But those that stand out the most are the first-ever authorizations of the USDA Climate Hubs and the Long-term Agroecosystem Research (LTAR) network, expansion of agroforestry initiatives, expansion of the USDA’s conservation programs, and grants to states and Tribal governments interested in implementing soil health management programs.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 9, 2022

Toronto | Traditional territories of the Huron-Wendat, the Anishnaabeg, Haudenosaunee, Chippewas and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation – The Ontario government solicited expert testimony from a known climate change denier to defend its poor record on climate action, in a court challenge brought from seven Ontario youth.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 13, 2021

Next week the federal government, for the first time, will likely declare a Tier 1 shortage on the lower Colorado River, opening a new chapter in the beleaguered river’s history and illustrating its vulnerability in a region that is drying because of the buildup of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Although methane doesn’t linger very long in the atmosphere, increasing methane levels are particularly bad news because it packs a big punch. But its short lifetime in the atmosphere is also a reason for hope. But governments must put policy measures into place immediately to be effective. The planet has already warmed 1.1

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 20, 2023

Part pep rally, part trade show, part performance review, the UN Water Conference is pitched by its co-hosts, the governments of the Netherlands and Tajikistan, as an opportunity for the world to recommit to ambitious goals of safely managed water and sanitation for all people and ecosystems.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Resource managers have varying control over the intricate blend of factors that affect nutrient delivery to the river such as physical factors (geology, climate, and hydrology), source inputs (atmospheric and land use) and legacy storage of nutrients (dams and groundwater) that remain a challenge toward meeting water quality goals.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Instruments installed on the International Space Station are refining weather forecasts by measuring water vapor in the atmosphere and water held in clouds. Incorporating satellite data, the program estimates water that plants “breathe” into the atmosphere and water that evaporates from farm fields.

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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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Circle of Blue

MARCH 31, 2023

An energetic, bustling atmosphere was partly the point. The absence of binding pledges from governments was not the only limitation. So far, 713 commitments have been filed by NGOs, governments, businesses, universities, and intergovernmental organizations like UNICEF. Good governance was correlated with more effective spending.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Pennsylvania’s Coastal Resources Management Program (CRMP) receives an annual grant award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). A portion of this award is used to fund eligible projects that address CRMP priorities.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 9, 2024

If governments bypass or undermine science and public comments in policy making, our health could be in jeopardy from increased pollution, cases of foodborne illnesses, politically-driven medicine approvals or disapprovals, and more. This is a major federal law that governs if a chemical will be regulated, limited, or even banned.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 24, 2023

In the 1960s, scientists were warning that the burning of fossil fuels was releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, which could have catastrophic consequences for the planet. States and local governments are suing for damages So why are states and local governments suing the fossil fuel industry now?

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New Scientist

JANUARY 3, 2025

Countries have pledged to phase out HFC-23, a powerful greenhouse gas, but atmospheric data shows that emissions are five times higher than governments are reporting

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 31, 2025

CDR refers to deliberate human activities that remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and durably store it in geologic, terrestrial, or ocean reservoirs or in long-lived products. OAE attempts to artificially increase the oceans carbon sink, i.e., its ability to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The Climate Overshoot Commission is a senior independent international body, consisting of twelve distinguished individuals from around the world, including former heads of government, national ministers, and leaders of major environment, development, and civil society organizations.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Responsible for 12 percent of all US global warming emissions from human activities, methane traps significantly more heat per molecule than carbon dioxide, making it 86 times more harmful for the first 20 years after it is released into the atmosphere. VY: They do.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 29, 2021

State government officials in New South Wales announce an increase in the amount of rainwater farmers are allowed to harvest on their property. Experts say a recent atmospheric river event in California didn’t improve drought conditions, CBSLA reports. A recent coup in Sudan leaves water diplomacy with Ethiopia even more tenuous.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2024

Eisenhower named the entanglement of defense and private industry the military-industrial complex, warning that its outsized influence over the government was a threat to peace and democracy. In 1961, US President Dwight D. The conditions that so alarmed Eisenhower persist today.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The consequences of heirs’ property In situations where natural disasters such as hurricanes and tornadoes occur and impact the properties, these families have difficulty accessing FEMA funds or government assistance. The commission will be comprised of members from select nonprofit organizations, judges, and government officials.

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