Climate Change Coastal Erosion Government 
Union of Concerned Scientists
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
Climate impacts as human rights violations It’s widely accepted that climate change is the cause of human rights violations for millions of people, including their rights to adequate housing, healthy working conditions, safe drinking water, education, and a healthy environment.
Circle of Blue
JANUARY 5, 2022
Lacking faith in government, South Africans take it upon themselves to deliver basic necessities like water to their communities. Researchers, scientists, and government agencies are hoping to implement “smarter” technologies to monitor the Great Lakes. YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN. They are instead about which right a diverter has.
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Law Columbia
APRIL 9, 2024
In a transformative moment for European and global climate litigation, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled today that the state has a positive duty to adopt, and effectively implement in practice, regulations and measures capable of mitigating the existing and potentially irreversible future effects of climate change.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JULY 29, 2022
DO: Pay your fair share of the costs of climate change. cities, counties, and states over climate damages and deception; and 39 cases brought by seven coastal parishes and the State of Louisiana seeking damages for coastal erosion around oil fields. Chevron alone is facing a $9.5
Union of Concerned Scientists
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
Many of these communities have been hit by back to back disasters, and also face coastal erosion, COVID-19 impacts, and climate-augmented storms like Hurricane Ida. Hurricanes appear to have picked up late in the season and the wildfire season is not over yet, so more disasters could happen before Danger Season ends.
Frontiers
NOVEMBER 7, 2021
Ultimately, sea level rise will force people to migrate to higher ground, creating climate change refugees. Soon, these Americans, inhabitants of the last isolated fishing community in Virginia, will become climate change refugees, forced to relocate,” said lead author David Schulte, College of William and Mary, US.
The Energy Law
OCTOBER 2, 2020
Today, the United States Supreme Court granted a Petition for Certiorari filed by energy companies in Baltimore’s climate change lawsuit. As discussed in more detail in our June 2nd post titled “Climate Change Jurisdiction: U.S. climate change litigation, as these cases continue to grow in number.
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