Legal Planet

APRIL 13, 2023

The timing of these climate disputes is not accidental. The movement follows a worldwide upsurge in climate change-related cases, which have more than doubled since 2015. There is, therefore, no legally valid option to simply omit to combat climate change,” the ruling said. In Future Generations v.

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Legal Planet

JULY 21, 2023

As Gernot Wagner puts it in ‘ Geoengineering: the Gamble ’: “The decision is all about risk-risk tradeoffs” He urges us to put the risks of potentially pursuing solar geoengineering against “the risks of unmitigated climate change.” The National Academy of Sciences adopted a ’risk-risk’ framing in its 2021 report.

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JUNE 6, 2022

Deadly heatwaves, extreme drought, food and water shortages, catastrophic flooding, rapidly intensifying tropical storms, raging wildfires—around the world, climate change is exacerbating extreme conditions and their harsh toll on people and ecosystems. The fearsome toll of climate impacts is already clear, leading U.N.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The documents also offer evidence that Ministers’ offices, other than that of Housing Minister Steve Clark, were involved as early as January 2022, prior to the June 2022 election, and yet the government still kept Ontario voters in the dark. Of the four requests, two have now resulted in partial releases.

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Legal Planet

MAY 9, 2022

Following are some of my key takeaways (detailed in this and another forthcoming report) about the appropriate role of emissions trading in climate change policy and general thoughts on improving the effectiveness of carbon markets. – Emissions trading as part of a portfolio of climate policies. .

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 17, 2022

The reason for this long drought has a lot to do with changes in precipitation patterns and rising temperatures linked to human-caused climate change, but it also has to do with human decisions that have led to the overexploitation of water resources of our rivers, lakes, and groundwater and a lack of sufficient policies to protect these resources.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 10, 2024

In a pivotal week for environmental justice, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg, France, delivered rulings on three climate cases. The court’s ruling in this case was groundbreaking, explicitly linking climate change action with human rights protections for the first time.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 19, 2021

As governments in California and across the United States wrestle with how to address soaring housing costs, a significant flashpoint has been the issue of local control. Most land-use regulation in the United States is done by local governments: cities, counties, towns, villages.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 29, 2023

Photo by Mathias Reding on Unsplash Climate change litigation has finally reached the world’s highest court. 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 the obligations of States with respect to climate change.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Water-related crises around the world have shown that current systems of governance and economic organization are unsuited for a world altered by global warming. First, damage to freshwater supplies is increasingly straining human societies, especially the poor, with far-reaching implications for economic, social, and political stability.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 8, 2023

While there are thousands of people here in Dubai at COP28 fighting for genuine change, the climate summit is facing a barrage of disinformation. Combatting climate change has never been more urgent, and COP28 is poised to advance critical global action. What’s lacking is political will.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 14, 2021

The conflict is a consequence of extreme heat and worsening droughts, byproducts of climate change, which bruises Africa’s Sahel region and nearby countries more deeply than almost anywhere else in the world. Critics say the Nigerian government’s tepid response has encouraged vigilante justice and fueled ongoing violence.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Climate change adaptation refers to our individual and collective ability to cope with Mother Nature’s more intense weather punches in terms of extreme heat, drought, fire, flood and many other place based risks. An example would be government price supports for agriculture that create a moral hazard effect.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

PennFuture celebrated 25 years of fighting climate change and industrial pollution by holding anniversary celebrations in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia to honor seven Pennsylvanians for their contributions to restoring and protecting the environment. from Villanova University School of Law.

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 28, 2023

Leading political geographer Farhana Sultana coined the term ‘climate coloniality’ to refer to the enduring legacies of colonialism and imperialism on vulnerable communities around the world. Read the full post on the Global CCE Blog.

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Legal Planet

MAY 23, 2022

Australia has had a change of government. The Liberal Party — conservative in everything but name — lost control of the federal government to Labor. Australia was recently ranked last out of sixty countries in climate policy.The victorious Labor candidate told his supporters, “Together we can end the climate wars.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 21, 2024

CLEE published excerpts from the 922 page Project 2025 document related to climate change and environment, here. F]ull implementation will likely result in ten-fold increase in political hires. Political loyalists would take their place. This transition poses both legal and logistical challenges.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 10, 2024

With its unique design, the Paris Agreement does not prescribe specific actions by countries but encourages them to develop their own tailored approaches to combat climate change. It also encourages badly needed reforms inside and outside of government and will help create new political coalitions.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 22, 2022

On June 13, 2022, Chile published its Climate Change Framework Law (“the Climate Act”). The Climate Act includes a binding goal of net zero emissions by 2050 at the latest, following the recommendations of the IPCC. In 2019, Chile became President of the 25th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP25).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 5, 2024

The IPCC is a collaborative panel consisting of 195 member governments. Representatives of these member governments convene in Plenary Sessions, like the one we just attended. Each country sends delegations that can include both government officials and scientific experts, collectively forming the Panel.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

As my colleague Katie Segal wrote earlier this week , our team at CLEE recently released a report detailing how San Francisco can fund its ambitious Climate Action Plan. The post How Can Local Governments Pay for Climate Action? M) and a measure to limit vehicle traffic in Golden Gate Park (Prop. Download as PDF.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 16, 2023

‘Climate reductionism’ makes everything about the climate and glosses over local context and the many interconnections of our complex world. It can lead us into the wrong political priorities. One is the idea that ‘climatism’ is endemic across politics and the media. I’m not convinced that’s even remotely true.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 9, 2022

Short-Changing Michigan Local Governments Has Resulted in Deteriorating Water Systems and Other Services. It means that vulnerable systems are even more at risk in a changing climate. The federal government passed the Clean Water Act in 1972, and spending on drinking water and wastewater systems skyrocketed.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 24, 2023

The fossil fuel industry has known for decades that its products cause climate chang e Contrary to what the fossil fuel industry would like you to believe, the link between burning fossil fuels and climate change has been well established for decades.

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A Greener Life

JULY 30, 2021

Germany has recently experienced fatal and apocalyptic climate- fuelled floods , after which the country’s Chancellor, Angela Merkel, promised the government would do more to tackle climate change. So what should Germany do with their newfound appetite for tackling climate change? By Anders Lorenzen.

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A Greener Life

JULY 18, 2024

In a criticism of the previous Conservative government, they said their plans and policies would not deliver the required action soon enough. The new government has an opportunity to correct the course, but it will need to be done as a matter of urgency to make up for lost time.

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 5, 2024

Read the full story from the Center for Climate Communication. Many Americans are worried about climate change, but research finds that relatively few engage in political action to influence policymakers.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

Earlier this month I visited my family in Sri Lanka and found that everything has changed since my last visit almost four years ago. As I embraced my family, I felt a palpable fatigue from the pressures of the pandemic, political unrest, and geopolitical turmoil bubbling beneath the surface.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 27, 2021

In that time climate change has gone from being a fringe issue to a global priority. President of the summit is the physicist and politician Alok Sharma MP , who previously served as business secretary in the UK government. Let’s hope our political leaders in Glasgow can make that a reality.”. Global goals.

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Legal Planet

JULY 13, 2023

Limiting climate change will itself protect ecosystems and biodiversity around the world. The disadvantaged face the biggest risks from climate change. But the energy transition will also create other equity benefits apart its impact on climate change. Then there are the benefits of protecting nature.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 23, 2022

Climate change and mismanagement sowed the seeds of a cholera outbreak. Entering the third month of extreme temperatures, people in Pakistan are confronting yet another calamity linked to an unforgiving climate: a deadly cholera outbreak. A child collects drinking water in Rajasthan, India in 2016. Carl Ganter / Circle of Blue.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

President-elect Gabriel Boric’s new government must address issues of decarbonisation, water crisis and lithium nationalisation, all while rewriting the country’s constitution. In our government, it will be a priority to avoid this destruction and to have development that is compatible with the environment.”. By Francisco Parra Galaz

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Below is a look at what tools are currently being used to facilitate justice for climate change on an international scale and where those mechanisms are falling short in ensuring transitional justice and a clean future. Unfortunately, when it comes to climate change, the truth is often obscured.

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AUGUST 23, 2023

Fold in the need to consider flood management, politics, and economics…and oh yes!…add …add climate change , and it gets very complicated! climate change), and the costs and benefits of mitigation and/or adaptation to such events. agriculture, floods, energy). Basin-wide cooperation optimizes benefits.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Rather than entering that debate, I’d like to reflect on how issues of colonialism might relate to climate change. The second concern is political domination, meaning that the autonomy of either the other country as a whole or parts of its population is impaired. I don’t purport to be an expert on that.

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Legal Planet

MAY 16, 2023

In the past two years, however, the things have started trending upward after years of inaction by conservative governments. As in the US, Australia’s climate policy was long a victim of a lengthy period of divided government and political upheaval. there has been strong polarization on the climate issue.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2024

In many areas, unsustainable water use has overstretched local water supplies, and climate change is making these supplies more volatile. Government agencies, researchers, and others can provide guidance and educational outreach to help diverters understand measurement and reporting requirements and technical options.

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