Trees Alone Can’t Stop Climate Change
Scientific American
NOVEMBER 19, 2024
Forests absorb planet-warming pollution, but world leaders shouldn’t include them in plans to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions, a new study recommends
New misguided interpretations of the greenhouse effect from William Kininmonth
Real Climate
OCTOBER 1, 2022
I have a feeling that we are seeing the start of a new wave of climate change denial and misrepresentation of science. Another clue is William Kininmonth’s ‘rethink’ on the greenhouse effect for The Global Warming Policy Foundation. Benestad, "A mental picture of the greenhouse effect", Theoretical and Applied Climatology , vol.
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Plastic Pollution and Climate Change: Understanding Their Interconnected Impact on Our Planet
Earthava
NOVEMBER 13, 2024
The post Plastic Pollution and Climate Change: Understanding Their Interconnected Impact on Our Planet appeared first on Earthava. Plastic pollution poses a significant threat not only to ecosystems but also to the climate.
Scotland Passes Revised Climate Change Legislation Amidst Criticism
Climate Change Blawg
NOVEMBER 10, 2024
The Scottish Parliament has passed a revised Climate Change Bill that reshapes Scotland’s approach to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. In a decisive vote of 105 to zero, Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs) approved the legislation, with support from all parties except the Scottish Greens, who abstained.
SBTi Approves NG Bailey’s Climate Change Plan
Environment + Energy Leader
JANUARY 5, 2023
NG Bailey has pledged to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 50% by 2031 from sources it directly owns and manages as well as those it indirectly contributes to. The post SBTi Approves NG Bailey’s Climate Change Plan appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.
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The summary for policymakers of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change sixth assessment reports synthesis
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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Brazil Advances in Climate Change Litigation
Legal Planet
APRIL 13, 2023
A new wave of cases differs from traditional environmental lawsuits by highlighting the connections between preserving the Amazon and the climate, the grave risk of greenhouse gas emissions caused by deforestation, and the critical role of the forest as a major global carbon sink. The timing of these climate disputes is not accidental.
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Climate Change Is Intensifying the Water Cycle, New IPCC Report Finds
Circle of Blue
AUGUST 11, 2021
According to the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report published Monday, Southeast Asia coastal zones are among the world’s most climate vulnerable regions. Graphic courtesy of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Carl Ganter / Circle of Blue.
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A science-based move to climate change adaptation
Real Climate
OCTOBER 27, 2021
All countries in the world urgently need to adapt to climate change but are not yet in a good position to do so. It’s urgent because we are not even adapted to the present climate. Such reports provide a summary of the state of our knowledge, but are not sufficiently specific for climate change adaptation.
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Climate Change Is Turning California’s Wildfire Season into Wildfire Year
Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 24, 2022
Climate change has sped up the arrival of spring, with major consequences for wildfires (Fig. Climate change has disrupted historical trends and created conditions for year-round wildfires. As humans continue to release greenhouse gases, global temperatures will continue to rise. But is this normal?
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HotSpots H2O: In Madagascar, Droughts Caused by Climate Change Contribute to Famine
Circle of Blue
AUGUST 16, 2021
As famines historically are caused by conflict or political issues, and socioeconomic vulnerabilities, the famine in Madagascar–one of the lowest emitters of carbon and greenhouse gasses in the world–stands out as being heavily influenced by climate change.
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Montana “Youth Citizens” Win Landmark Climate Change Case Against State Government
Legal Planet
AUGUST 15, 2023
A Montana state district court has issued its long-awaited decision in a major climate change case brought by Montana children against state officials. Judge Seeley did so after presiding over a two-week, non-jury trial in June 2023–the first such climate change trial in U.S. In Held v. legal history.
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Climate Change Is Widespread, Rapid, and Intensifying — And Terrifying
Law and Environment
AUGUST 9, 2021
The IPCC has released its Sixth Assessment Report on the physical science basis of climate change. Widespread and rapid changes in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere and biosphere have occurred. Human-induced climate change is already affecting many weather and climate extremes in every region across the globe.
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HotSpots H2O: Ongoing Madagascar Famine Is Driven By Poverty, Not Climate Change
Circle of Blue
DECEMBER 6, 2021
For months, international’s organizations have blamed the calamity on climate change. International organizations had blamed the calamity on climate change, but a new study rejects that assumption. And so [climate change] will only make things more difficult for these regions in the world.”.
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New Zealand Supreme Court Paves Way for Novel Climate Change Claim
Clean Energy Law
FEBRUARY 12, 2024
On appeal of a strike out decision, the Court gives the plaintiff “his day in court” to argue that corporates owe a common law duty of care in tort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Lamb KC and Stephanie Forrest On 7 February 2024, the Supreme Court of New Zealand decided to allow a novel climate change claim to proceed to trial.
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Focus on the ‘Forgotten Greenhouse Gas’ Intensifies as All Eyes Are on the U.S. and China to Curb Pollution
Inside Climate News
SEPTEMBER 26, 2024
By Phil McKenna NEW YORK—As scientists, policymakers and environmental advocates seek to accelerate efforts to address climate change, they’re zeroing in on a pollutant long considered the “forgotten greenhouse gas.” But proven, low-cost efforts to reduce emissions offer hope.
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Growing number of Earth's ‘vital signs’ endangered by climate change
New Scientist
OCTOBER 8, 2024
Key climate indicators from greenhouse gas levels to ice loss have reached record levels this year in what researchers call a “critical and unpredictable new phase of the climate crisis”
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Beyond Magical Thinking: Time to Get Real on Climate Change
Yale E360
MAY 19, 2022
Despite decades of studies and climate summits, greenhouse gas emissions continue to soar. Energy scientist Vaclav Smil says it’s time to stop ricocheting between apocalyptic forecasts and rosy models of rapid CO2 cuts and focus on the difficult task of remaking our energy system. Read more on E360 ?.
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Submarine Permafrost Has Been Overlooked as a Major Source of Greenhouse Gases, Scientists Warn
Yale E360
FEBRUARY 15, 2021
Scientists have found that permafrost buried beneath the Arctic Ocean holds 60 billion tons of methane and 560 billion tons of organic carbon — making it a major source of greenhouse gases not currently included in climate projections that could have a significant impact on climate change in the longer-term.
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Setting the Record Straight: Climate Change and Wildfires in Canada
Enviromental Defense
JUNE 10, 2024
The increase in greenhouse gas emissions has made many parts of the world hotter and drier. Climate change creates the right conditions for wildfires to spread easily, but it doesn’t start fires on its own With drier and warmer conditions, Canada’s forests become like a tinderbox that can cause a normal fire to get out of control.
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What is the Department of Transportation’s Greenhouse Gas Performance Measure, and Why Does it Matter?
Union of Concerned Scientists
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
Last week, the Federal Highway Administration finalized an important regulation–the greenhouse gas performance measure. Currently, only 24 states and the District of Columbia have laws requiring them to set targets and track their greenhouse gas emissions from transportation.
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How big a problem are methane and other non-CO2 greenhouse gases?
New Scientist
DECEMBER 1, 2023
Carbon dioxide is the dominant driver of climate change, but countries convening at COP28 are expected to make agreements to reduce methane and other often overlooked greenhouse gases
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Climate Change: State and Local Efforts to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Vehicles
Environmental News Bits
SEPTEMBER 5, 2023
What GAO Found According to the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), state departments of transportation (state DOT) and metropolitan planning organizations (MPO) play a key role in implementing activities to reduce transportation-related greenhouse gas emissions, including on-road emissions from vehicles.
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Reparation for Climate Change at the ECtHR
Law Columbia
MAY 10, 2024
The recent rulings on climate change by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) are—as others have pointed out in this blog symposium —both “historic and unprecedented” for various reasons, not least regarding the question of reparation for climate change-related harm. Portugal and 32 Other States and Carême v.
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A Historic and Devastating Drought in the Amazon Was Caused by Climate Change, Researchers Say
Inside Climate News
JANUARY 24, 2024
By Georgina Gustin Climate change was the primary driver of a massive drought in the Amazon basin in 2023 and will likely cause future extreme droughts, with potentially dire consequences for global efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new report from World Weather Attribution.
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Fighting Climate Change and Unhealthy Air, California Wants to Electrify Trucks, Too
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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Delayed harm and the politics of climate change, reconsidered
Legal Planet
OCTOBER 16, 2021
The world is gathering soon in Glasgow to debate how to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions over the coming decades. Does the climate keep warming, stay the same, or even cool? What are the political implications of the fact that climate change will continue after emissions cease, or even potentially grow worse?
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How climate change has pushed our oceans to the brink of catastrophe
New Scientist
AUGUST 14, 2024
For decades, the oceans have absorbed much of the excess heat caused by greenhouse gases. The latest observations suggest they are reaching their limits, so how worried should we be?
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Ontario is failing on climate change
Enviromental Defense
MAY 19, 2022
What has Ontario done about climate change the last 4 years? Once upon a time, Ontario was a provincial leader in fighting climate change. But today, there is virtually no climate policy in place in the province, and the Ontario government has resorted to becoming a climate pretender. Not by a long shot. .
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The ITLOS Advisory Opinion on Climate Change: An introduction into the joint blog symposium
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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Hidden Fossil Fuels: Plastic Production Drives Climate Change
NRDC
APRIL 23, 2024
Study shows that plastic production could be nearly one third of the global carbon budget and emits four times more greenhouse gases than the airline industry.
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Climate Change, Health Impacts, and State Obligations under International Law
Law Columbia
JUNE 24, 2024
The Sabin Center has recently published two reports on the connection between climate change, health impacts, and State obligations under international law. The ICJ advisory opinion is one of multiple legal proceedings aimed at clarifying State obligations under international and human rights law with respect to climate change.
North America’s Biggest Food Companies Are Struggling to Lower Their Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Inside Climate News
SEPTEMBER 21, 2024
By Georgina Gustin Some of the country’s biggest food companies are making a small dent in their greenhouse gas emissions, but most are failing to make substantial and critical reductions, even as consumers and government regulators are pushing harder for them to do so.
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Bipartisan Climate Initiative Officially Launches Education Effort To Use PA Environmental Rights Amendment To Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Adapt To Climate Change
PA Environment Daily
OCTOBER 26, 2023
The global climate crisis requires immediate action, and we can start here at home in our Commonwealth, where we produce more than one percent of global greenhouse gases annually. Climate change is a global issue, but Pennsylvanians know that the local impacts are increasingly severe. Peduto was selected for the U.S.
Finding Light in Dark Places: Specific Obligations for Climate Change and Ocean Acidification Mitigation
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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The Woman Who Demonstrated the Greenhouse Effect
Scientific American
NOVEMBER 9, 2023
Eunice Newton Foote showed that carbon dioxide traps the heat of the sun in 1856, beating the so-called father of the greenhouse effect by at least three years. Why was she forgotten?
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The ICJ’s Advisory Opinion on Climate Change: What Happens Now?
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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9 Years After the Paris Agreement, the UN Confronts the World’s Failure to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Inside Climate News
NOVEMBER 2, 2024
Interview by Jenni Doering, Living on Earth From our collaborating partner Living on Earth, public radio’s environmental news magazine , an interview by Jenni Doering with Bob Berwyn, who covers climate science and the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for Inside Climate News.
How Does Climate Change Affect Fisheries?
Ocean Conservancy
OCTOBER 27, 2023
How is climate change affecting our ocean? What does climate change mean for fish? Some effects of climate change aren’t as easy to spot as shifting ranges or fish stock collapses, however. Thinking about how fish respond to temperature isn’t enough to predict their response to climate change, though.
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The Transformation of European Climate Change Litigation: Introduction to the Blog Symposium
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.
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Why Controlling Landfill Methane Is Key to Slowing Climate Change
Scientific American
JULY 29, 2024
The EPA plans to propose a rule in 2025 that will tackle methane emissions from landfills, one of the country's largest sources of the greenhouse gas
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Characterizing Climate Change from Heating, Not Merely Temperature
Environmental News Bits
MARCH 29, 2024
. “Characterizing Climate Change from Heating, Not Merely Temperature.” ” Journal of Climate Action, Research, and Policy, 01, 2475001.
Too extreme to be true? The links between extreme weather and climate change
HumanNature
DECEMBER 11, 2023
In the background , the question always looms, “Are these extreme weather events caused by climate change ? ”. Julia Aylen wades through waist deep water carrying her pet dog as she is rescued from her flooded home during Hurricane Dorian in Freeport, Bahamas, Tuesday, Sept. As society evolves, extreme weather also changes.
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Glossary of Greenhouse Gas Terms
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. See, Weather.
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