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Last month, 44 climate scientists from 15 countries wrote an open letter to the Nordic Council of Ministers highlighting the risk of a potential collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), a critical ocean current system in the Atlantic Ocean. But what exactly would cause the AMOC to collapse?
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While nonbinding, the unanimous advisory opinion offers important support for small island nations facing climate impacts and raises the bar for other nations to reduce their global warming emissions to protect the world’s oceans. Brings together international climateagreements. Lays out polluting nations’ obligations.
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That’s how long Ocean Conservancy has been advancing policies that secure a healthy ocean and a thriving planet. Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Yet despite its critical role, the ocean is often sidelined in global climate discussions.
The slowdown of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current could have 'dire' consequences, including greater climate variability and accelerated global warming.
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All countries in the world urgently need to adapt to climatechange 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 climatechange adaptation.
This past week, I attended the Intergovernmental Panel on ClimateChange (IPCC) meeting in Hangzhou, China. In previous posts, Ive explained what the IPCC is, why this assessment cycle is crucial , and highlighted its role in climate action. Marine CDR lacks long-term observational data and has potential ecological risks.
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degrees Celsius, but also to enable communities to live with extreme weather, acidifying oceans, and rising seas that are already occurring. Events of the past year — torrential floods, exhausting droughts, deadly heat waves — sharpened focus that society must adapt to these climatechanges.
Mexico is also highly vulnerable to climatechange. What’s the state of climate policy in Mexico? The climate issue has to be placed in the broader context of Mexico’s situation. Because of its geography, Mexico is vulnerable to climate impacts.
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Representatives from civil society, non-governmental organizations and the private sector gathered alongside governmental representatives to influence decisions and advance contributions toward the goals of the ParisAgreement of 2015. I was joined by Ocean Conservancy colleagues working to advance ocean-climate action.
The suit claims that BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil, Shell, and the American Petroleum Institute misled the public despite clear knowledge that their products cause climatechange. For more than 50 years , the fossil fuel industry has obstructed meaningful climate action. at UMass Amherst.
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Despite the ongoing debate on whether ITLOS has jurisdiction to issue an advisory opinion on climatechange, if the Tribunal asserts jurisdiction (on jurisdiction, see here and here) , there is still much to uncover. However, ITLOS is not responsible for implementing the UNFCCC or the ParisAgreement.
Presumably Dagsvik and Moen are used to this kind of model, but they seem to be inexperienced with the models used for weather and climate, which on the other hand are based on the laws of physics. Furthermore, the volume of the oceans increases from the melting of land ice. Our job is to be thorough and verify questionable results.
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Of course, these adjectives have also been used to describe many other recent judgments delivered on the topic of climatechange. Still, there is something in this advisory opinion that—although not changing the world— could be impactful. However, these treaties seem to have had little bearing on ITLOS’ interpretation of UNCLOS.
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The Intergovernmental Panel on ClimateChange (IPCC) is the leading scientific authority on climatechange. Every six or seven years, scientists from around the world organize into expert working groups and review thousands of the latest studies on climatechange. What is the IPCC? Never miss an update.
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Student in the Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University Most people remember the water cycle they learned in school: water evaporates from lakes, rivers, and the ocean, air carrying this moisture rises, cools, condenses, and forms clouds, and these clouds precipitate water back down to the surface. C temperature target.
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I wanted to use my problem-solving skills to work on solutions to climatechange, which is the biggest challenge we face,” she says, “and energy storage is really important for decarbonizing electricity.”. I wanted to use my problem-solving skills to work on solutions to climatechange, which is the biggest challenge we face.
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