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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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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Greenbuilding Law

JUNE 5, 2022

With proposed federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions by the Securities and Exchange Commission requiring GHG disclosure and new state statutes, including a new Maryland law that requires not only disclosure, but also a mandated reduction in GHG emissions, a greater appreciation of the subject of GHG appears in order.

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Physics World

AUGUST 1, 2021

Sprinkling powered basalt over natural ecosystems would remove vast amounts of carbon dioxide from the Earth’s atmosphere while also improving soils. Worldwide, nations are pledging to reach net zero emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050, if not earlier. Could the breakdown of rocks mitigate climate change?

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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.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Global net anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions 1990–2019. Global net anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions include carbon dioxide from fossil fuel combustion and industrial processes, net carbon dioxide from land use, land use change and forestry, methane, nitrous oxide, and fluorinated gases.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

California’s fleet of commercial trucks and buses is responsible for an outsized impact on air quality and climate change. Regulations like the ACF are critical to ensuring that we make the transition to electric at the speed necessary to address both climate change and equitable access to clean air.

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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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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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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

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Sabin Center for Climate Change Law Submits Amicus Brief on Climate and Human Rights to Inter-American Court On Friday, November 3, 2023, the Sabin Center submitted an amicus curiae brief to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in the matter of the Request for Advisory Opinion on climate law, human rights, and climate science.

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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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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

It is 33 years now since the IPCC in its first report in 1990 concluded that it is “certain” that greenhouse gas emissions from human activities “will enhance the greenhouse effect, resulting on average in an additional warming of the Earth’s surface.” It’s not hard to understand.

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Inside Climate News

JANUARY 31, 2023

Electric utilities are likely responsible for the nation’s higher than expected emissions of sulfur hexafluoride, a greenhouse gas 25,000 times worse for the climate than carbon dioxide. By Phil McKenna While emissions of sulfur hexafluoride (SF6), the world’s most potent greenhouse gas, have fallen sharply in the U.S.

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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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Scientific American

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

An instrument mounted to the International Space Station was built to map dust in the atmosphere, but it’s also giving scientists a wealth of information about methane and carbon dioxide emissions

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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. Westlaw searches for “global warming” and “greenhouse effect” pick up only a handful of citations before 1985. I found only one relevant reference using the term “climate change” before 1985.

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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. However the long term drop in per person gasoline use is likely due to fuel economy and greenhouse gas standards that have made gasoline vehicles more efficient over the prior decades.

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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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Inside Climate News

JANUARY 16, 2023

By Bob Berwyn, Katie Surma Forests managed by Indigenous peoples and other local communities in the Amazon region draw vast amounts of planet-warming carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere while the rest of the rainforest has become a net source of the greenhouse gas, a new report has found.

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Breezometer

APRIL 6, 2022

Allergy sufferers may have to brace themselves - researchers predict the US could see as much as a 200% increase in pollen this century if greenhouse gas emissions continue at the current rate, which may also cause pollen season to start between 10 to 40 days earlier. Increasing Levels Of Carbon Dioxide In The Atmosphere.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 23, 2023

March 8, 2023, marked the start of the demonstration phase of Project Greensand , shipping carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) from Belgium for storage in a depleted oilfield in the North Sea off the coast of Denmark. on the Export of Carbon Dioxide Streams for Disposal in Sub-Seabed Geological Formations for the Purpose of Sequestration.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 5, 2024

Outline of a Special Report on Climate Change and Cities Delegates dissected the proposed outline for the Climate Change and Cities report over several days. We intervened when the debate veered into specific scientific questions, particularly the question of whether wildfires are being influenced by climate change.

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Environmental News Bits

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

As humans burn fossil fuels and release huge amounts of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gasses, the amount of heat trapped on Earth rises steadily. When a baby … Continue reading Climate change makes storms like Ian more common. Heat is the fuel that makes hurricanes big, powerful and rainy.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 7, 2024

Creator: George Stoyle The oceans absorb large quantities of the carbon dioxide emitted by human activities. Subsequent research progressively shed light on the impacts of anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) on ocean chemistry and ecosystems, such as coral bleaching, marine biodiversity loss, and acidification.

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Brag

JANUARY 24, 2023

BETO states that methanol has “rich potential for uses that contribute to lower greenhouse gas emissions and help in the fight against climate change.” According to BETO, the goal is to identify catalysts that can make beneficial products, such as sustainable aviation fuel, efficiently and selectively.

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Washington Nature

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The latest science coming from a partnership between The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and the University of Washington (UW) highlights ways nature can help Washington achieve its net-zero greenhouse gas emissions goal by midcentury. What are Natural Climate Solutions?

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Inside Climate News

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

Concentrations of HFC-23, one of the world’s most potent greenhouse gases, remained elevated in East Asia after China, a known past polluter, agreed to curb emissions.

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Greenbuilding Law

MAY 1, 2022

With the federal government and state of Maryland each having announced within days of each other, the mandated disclosure of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, we have received, maybe not surprising, many calls in the last two weeks inquiring “what are GHGs?” In 2020, carbon dioxide accounted for about 79% of all U.S.

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Greenbuilding Law

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Governments across the United States are for the first time regulating greenhouse gas emissions. This entirely new and emergent body of law in response to climate change is bursting onto the scene in 2024 and businesses are beginning to monetize it as a new revenue stream. Moreover, at least 195 countries (.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JULY 12, 2023

The National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC) applauds USDA’s commitment of funds to improve the tracking and analysis of agricultural greenhouse gas emissions. As the agency increasingly focuses on implementing incentive-based support for reducing agricultural greenhouse gas emissions, effective measurement becomes ever more vital.

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A Greener Life

JULY 15, 2022

Climate change threatens not just the amount of food that Indian farmers can grow, but also its nutritional quality. This thing, this climate change which everyone talks about, is very real. Photo credit: Alamy. By Fateh Veer Singh Guram. Scientists and researchers project that a 2.5 Rice presents a unique challenge.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Even as world leaders convene in Azerbaijan for COP29 to chart a path forward to avoid a climate catastrophe, the fact is that the world has waited too long for emissions reduction alone to solve the climate crisis. Climate change is here, and nowhere is this more immediately apparent than in our ocean.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 4, 2021

In recent years, The Netherlands has become the leading site of climate change litigation. its district, appellate , and supreme courts decided in favor of Urgenda, an upstart environmental organization, ordering the government to more aggressively reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Everyone produces greenhouse gases.

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Inside Climate News

MAY 1, 2023

Proven, low-cost pollution controls could quickly curb those emissions, but neither China nor the U.S. require abatement measures used by other plants around the world.

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