A Greener Life

MARCH 7, 2022

For climate scientists, the war in Ukraine came at the worst possible time as the media attention they would have hoped for surrounding the release of the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report was urgently diverted to the breaking news story of Russia invading Ukraine. Climate risks.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

The court determined the project was not in the public interest after weighing the social and environmental costs of the project, including an extended consideration of how the project would worsen climate change. This blog provides a quick review of the case and its noteworthy developments. Section 4.15(1) Four Key Takeaways.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 12, 2021

This refers to the balance between the amount of greenhouse gases produced and the amount removed from the atmosphere – with net zero meaning that there are no net greenhouse emissions from the entire energy system. We want to ensure a clean, sustainable and abundant future for us and the next generation. Young support.

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SPR Law

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The law’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions caps… The post New York Supreme Court Dismisses Challenge to Local Law 97 appeared first on Sive Paget Riesel. On October 30, 2023, the New York Supreme Court, New York County dismissed a significant legal challenge to New York City’s building emissions law, Local Law 97 of 2019.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 7, 2021

South Asia is home to nearly a quarter of the world’s population , and to some of the countries most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. South Asia is home to nearly a quarter of the world’s population , and to some of the countries most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.

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Frontiers

MARCH 24, 2023

She is also a fellow with The George J Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions and an associate of the University of Maine Climate Change Institute. Photo credit: Karrah Kwasnik What encouraged you to work towards sustainability, more specifically on climate change issues and sustainable agriculture? “I

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

This will include more than 100 new coal-fired plants , including the South Sumatra mine-mouth plants, which will generate greenhouse gases for decades to come. Practices that destroy nature and cause climate change must be resisted,” Faisal Basri, an economist from the University of Indonesia, told me.

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Frontiers

JUNE 5, 2023

The program highlighted the accelerator effect of open science, making it clear that science has solutions to the climate crisis and other critical challenges – but must be openly available to researchers and innovators across the globe for these solutions to be implemented in time to avert disaster.

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A Greener Life

MAY 3, 2022

As climate change accelerates, the risks and costs of extreme weather – like 2020’s Cyclone Amphan – are set to skyrocket in India. New analysis has found India’s large lenders and state-run energy giants are doing little to reduce their mounting climate exposure. Climate scorecard for India’s banks .

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

In his inaugural address , incoming General Assembly President Peter Thompson declared that the session would focus on advancing the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), adopted in September 2015. In this new era, questions abound regarding what constitutes “sustainable” development and how to achieve it.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

As the impacts of climate change are felt more acutely with each passing year, new research suggests that the future costs of emitting CO2 today may be much higher than previously calculated. The implications for the US federal government’s climate change policies are potentially wide-ranging. By James Norris.

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Our Environment

MAY 21, 2021

With the effects of Climate Change an imminent threat to the world and with cities contributing to more than 60% of Global Greenhouse Gas emissions (United Nations, 2021), future cities will also need to secure sustainable development. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, to stay within 1.5-degree

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 10, 2019

On December 28, 2018, California adopted comprehensive amendments to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines , which include a suite of provisions aimed at improving the analysis of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and climate change impacts in state environmental reviews. GHG Emissions Analysis.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

This is vital to meet rising demand for electricity among Moroccans, while reducing greenhouse gas emissions and mitigating climate change. Like much of Africa, Morocco has a lot to lose from climate change. A key development goal of many African countries is to increase electricity access. According to Ms.

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Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The focus was clear: climate action, transitioning to cleaner energy, advancing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and preparing for COP28 (the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference). The week also saw candid discussions on the economic ramifications of climate inaction. degrees Celsius by 2030.

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Edouard Stenger

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Unless you are oblivious to your surroundings, it’s hard to not be aware of the already catastrophic effects climate change is having on our lives. Most of the media still thinks that climate issues concern only folks born in the late 90s or even in the 21st century. This can be downright depressing and paralyzing.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 11, 2022

Climate change is often discussed in terms of global temperature increase, sea level rise, and hundreds of millions of tons of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere,” said Secretary McDonnell. DEP is committed to equipping municipalities in Pennsylvania to plan climate action and strengthen the sustainability of their communities.”

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Ocean Conservancy

JULY 21, 2022

Thousands of people from around the world gathered in Lisbon, Portugal, to discuss the biggest challenges facing our ocean and how best to work together to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 14: Life Below Water. Here are some of the highlights from our teams on the ground: Fighting Climate Change in the Ocean.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 11, 2022

By Jeff Mulhollem, Penn State News Amid the frequent bad news about climate change, some potentially good news has emerged: Existing technologies, diligently applied, could enable the world to meet the target set for reducing agricultural methane emissions by 2030. Ruminants provide about half the animal protein produced by livestock.

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Acoel

MAY 1, 2023

Will we have made the necessary changes to reduce the adverse impacts from climate change? In this article I address some of the things that lawyers have been doing in one of these areas – climate change. The Law Society of England and Wales (LSEW) enacted a similar climate change resolution in October 2021.

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Frontiers

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Photo credit: Frontiers, Falling Walls Foundation With climate change being one of the most pressing challenges of our time, Johan Rockström , director of the Potsdam Institute, emphasized that the upcoming COP28 must be one of change. This is especially important in the context of the current climate crisis.

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Ocean Conservancy

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Clean ocean energy solutions are critical to reducing emissions and averting the climate crisis. Climate change is the single greatest threat our ocean faces. It puts the wildlife and communities that depend on the ocean at risk through impacts like ocean acidification, sea level rise and temperature changes.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 11, 2023

Scientists say climate change has severe heatwaves more likely in South and Southeast Asia. By Joydeep Gupta As climate change makes heatwaves more frequent and severe in South Asia, India’s heat action plans offer pathways for adaptation, but experts say they lack the necessary focus on vulnerable populations.

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Edouard Stenger

JANUARY 3, 2023

I started that blog back in 2007 when sustainability was a vague buzzword and climate change a future threat. Nowadays, sustainability is increasingly embedded in our lives and climate change is a present and imminent danger to most if not all of us. This marks the beginning of my 17th season of blogging.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Five sports entities explained why they have become industry leaders by engaging with voluntary carbon offset markets at Friday’s Sports and Climate Change Summit. Photo courtesy of South Pole. Burning unsustainably harvested wood fuel contributes to approximately 2% of global greenhouse gas emissions. By Ama Francis.

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Acoel

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The Assessment’s focus is on using aquatic foods to help bring about the transformation of the global food system to end hunger while increasing sustainability. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) requires shifting toward a system that is more diverse, resilient and just, as well as healthier.

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Frontiers

JUNE 29, 2023

The team behind Women in Science carried out insightful conversations, learning more about the meaningful work these women are doing to contribute the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. According to the United Nations , it is estimated that 8-10% of global greenhouse gas emissions are from food that is not consumed.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2023

That’s good news because deforestation of tropical forests is a huge source of greenhouse gas emissions. A common definition of carbon offsets is “reductions of greenhouse gas emissions from an activity in one place to compensate for emissions elsewhere.”

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Vermont Law

APRIL 24, 2019

These calls for large dams in Pakistan overlooked the greenhouse gas emissions associated with hydroelectricity. A blind insistence on large dams ignored greater climate change risks and the harm to marginalized communities and fragile ecosystems. Ahmad is an Associate Professor of Law at Barry University School of Law.

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Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The focus was clear: climate action, transitioning to cleaner energy, advancing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and preparing for COP28 (the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference). The week also saw candid discussions on the economic ramifications of climate inaction. degrees Celsius by 2030.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

The strategy was developed to integrate the short- and long-term actions in the Climate Action Plan into the City’s development review processes to help reach the goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent by 2030. Events: -- Pennsylvania Leaders And Glasgow: Reflections On COP26 Climate Conference, Nov.

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SPR Law

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

LL97 requires most large buildings in NYC to meet increasingly stringent greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions limits starting in 2024. On September 12, 2023, the New York City Department of Buildings (DOB) issued proposed regulations to implement Local Law 97 of 2019 (LL97).

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Acoel

APRIL 14, 2023

My role on the Climate Crisis Commission recently took me to UN Headquarters in New York City for the March 2023 UN Water Conference , the first UN-convened event focused on freshwater resources since 1947. Changes in climate are influencing precipitation in ways that are shifting the distribution of water around the world.

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SPR Law

OCTOBER 10, 2022

LL97 requires most large buildings in NYC to meet increasingly stringent greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions limits starting in 2024. On October 6, 2022, the New York City Department of Buildings (DOB) issued proposed regulations to implement Local Law 97 of 2019 (LL97).

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SPR Law

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

No 1947-A—a bill that significantly amends the affordable housing provisions of Local Law 97 of 2019 to require more buildings to meet greenhouse gas emissions caps. On October 29, 2020, the New York City Council passed Int.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

With the largest rainforest in the world, the largest freshwater reserves on the planet and the most significant amount of arable land where food is produced, the importance of Latin America and the Caribbean in the fight against climate change is undeniable.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JUNE 14, 2023

As climate change intensifies, droughts lengthen and aquifers deplete, there will likely be more demand for irrigation infrastructure. Introduction We release this report in the wake of yet another report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on the nature of the climate crisis.

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