Legal Planet

OCTOBER 16, 2021

There is another important aspect to what is sometimes called “committed warming,” “climate inertia,” or “zero emissions commitment,” an aspect I wrote about over a decade ago. 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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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2025

This past week, I attended the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (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. Whats Next for the IPCC? With AR7 now in motion, the real work begins.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2025

This past week, I attended the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (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. Whats Next for the IPCC? With AR7 now in motion, the real work begins.

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Legal Planet

JULY 28, 2022

billion to help communities deal with risks from heat waves, sea-level rise, and flooding. At other end of the country and the political spectrum, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill providing $640 billion to fund coastal resilience efforts. He did not, of course, mention the word climate change.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The core of this gathering is the yearly “conference of parties” (or COP) of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and its related implementing protocols, including the Kyoto Protocol and, most recently, the Paris Agreement. federal climate action wavers or underdelivers. negotiations. Download as PDF.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 25, 2025

Malaysia is at high risk from the effects of climate change. Additionally, sea levels around Malaysia are projected to rise by a maximum of 3 to 10 mm by 2030 and 11 to 21 mm by 2050. Linking legislation addressing climate change with a states constitution is possible.

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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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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

While temperatures provide a measure of the Earth’s climate, it is even better to use the global sea level , which provides a far more reliable measure. The global sea level acts like the mercury in a thermometer because warmer water expands. Our job is to be thorough and verify questionable results.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 7, 2023

First, they will argue that they can’t be held liable for failing to disclose their knowledge of the causes of climate change because there was uncertainty about the topic and it was controversial. In their efforts to get the cases into federal court, the oil companies argued that federal law bars state lawsuits about climate change.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Today, climate change is the central, though by no means the only, concern in environmental law. I found only one relevant reference using the term “climate change” before 1985. In one sentence of a 1975 article, John Barton referred to “climate change” as a potentially severe long-term problem.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 21, 2023

The photo went viral and made clear the threat from rising sea levels to low-lying island nations. An archipelago of small islands south of Sri Lanka, Maldives is the flattest country on earth , the average height of land just four feet above sea level. I have been in the capital, Male, this week helping lead a U.S.

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Legal Planet

JULY 10, 2024

Proposition 4 would authorize the issuance of bonds in the amount of $10 billion pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law to finance a variety of projects combating climate change, increasing resiliency, and supporting climate solutions. billion to combat sea level rise.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

At the evening seafood reception that year, in a corner near the fresh oysters, a board member of the Maine Lobstermen’s Association remarked to me, “Everyone blames everything on climate change, but they blame the Right Whale on lobstering.” His remark has remained with me ever since. Sea levels are rising.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Total loss of the Greenland ice sheet, for example, would raise sea levels globally by more than 20 feet. They tallied 40 “interventions to slow down, halt, and reverse the effects of climate change in the Arctic and northern regions.” Arctic impacts are also linked to wider global harms.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 20, 2023

They combined their expertise in climate science, science history, and document analysis to create a perfect blend of scientific analysis and socially relevant research. In fact, climate models produce robust science. This research shows yet again that climate modeling is a reliable and powerful tool for understanding our world.

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Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2025

The request follows similar initiatives at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Seas (ITLOS, see here and here ), the International Court of Justice (ICJ, see here and here ), and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR, see here ).

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 26, 2021

It was the first case in which the Court was confronted with the issue of climate change. In an opinion by Justice Stevens, the Court held that the threat of sea level rise gave a state government standing to bring the suit. This is my nominee as the most important Supreme Court environmental ruling of all time.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Unseen and Unprotected: The Ongoing Struggle of Climate Refugees in the United States by Isaiah Gonzales and Professor Siu Tip Lam I. Introduction As climate change accelerates, environmental disasters will leave millions homeless. Historical Background of Climate Change The scientific consensus on climate change is undeniable.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

I’ve just arrived in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, for the 27 th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change—the UN’s annual global climate conference, aka COP27. Notably, this year, the Climate Justice Pavilion sits in the blue zone, staffed by U.S.-based

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 1, 2022

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the leading scientific authority on climate change. Every six or seven years, scientists from around the world organize into expert working groups and review thousands of the latest studies on climate change. What is the IPCC? Never miss an update.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 1, 2024

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently released a new rule resulting from a process intended to make companies disclose their climate-related financial risks to investors. Climate disclosure regulations are taking shape in markets around the world, such as the European Union, China, and Singapore.

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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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Environmental Progress

JUNE 29, 2020

On behalf of environmentalists everywhere, I would like to formally apologize for the climate scare we created over the last 30 years. Climate change is happening. I have been a climate activist for 20 years and an environmentalist for 30. Lire en français ici. Leer en español aquí. It’s just not the end of the world.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Human civilization is moving and with climate change and shifting water supplies, we face the greatest migration in human history. JCG: Human civilization is moving and with climate change and shifting water supplies, we face the greatest migration in human history. I’m J. Carl Ganter.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 25, 2017

We know that burning fossil fuels is the main cause of anthropogenic climate change, and that climate change is the source of adverse impacts on communities and even regional and national economies. Instead, it has been to stem and confuse the flow of information about climate change to the public and political leaders.

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Inside Climate News

JULY 31, 2023

By Bob Berwyn At the current level of human-caused global warming, extreme rainfall from atmospheric rivers, as well as an extensive network of previously undetected micro-cracks, could degrade large parts of the Greenland Ice Sheet faster than expected and accelerate melting toward worst-case projections for ice loss and sea level rise, recent research (..)

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

You read this title and say to yourself, “There is no war in climate change!” Often the discussions on climate change center around the environmental effects. Experts do not attribute climate change as a direct cause of war, but it is a catalyst for conflict. that arose from climate change.

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Ocean Conservancy

JUNE 10, 2021

If passed, it would, among other measures: “ expand Americans’ access to the ballot box, reduce the influence of big money in politics, strengthen ethics rules for public servants and implement other anti-corruption measures for the purpose of fortifying our democracy.”. ” Janis Searles Jones.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

APRIL 11, 2024

I didn’t have the political language,” Resita said. In her film, Resita explains that this is so common that you can predict the sea level of an area based on its racial demographics, known as racial topography. In Princeville, a Black community was built on land that was undesirable to white people at the time.

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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 “ climate module ”: How will the climate be altered by those emissions ? How fast will sea levels and temperatures rise?

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

C, we stand to lose ocean and coastal ecosystems we depend on to sea level rise, warming temperatures, ocean acidification and other climate impacts. We must reduce greenhouse gas emissions now, as Dr. Sarah Cooley , Ocean Conservancy’s director of climate science, emphasized when addressing a COP27 session.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2022

L&D has a specific meaning in climate talks that may not be obvious to anyone not immersed in the process: harms caused by climate change that are not avoided by adaptation. Given any particular trajectory of realized climate change (which of course depends on how fast emissions are cut), adaptation measures (e.g.,

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Independent analysis carried out by Climate Transparency members had found unreported subsidy data, she said. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has warned that emissions must be halved by 2030 and that the extraction of fossil fuels needs to stop to keep the 1.5C Loss and damage.

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Acoel

JANUARY 20, 2023

The term has become politically volatile, yet recognizing a community’s risk level – whether it’s risk of flooding, heat, earthquakes or forest fires – and then deciding how to address it is key to assuring our societal safety. The rich, the poor, the elderly, the disabled, the young? That’s a very tall order.

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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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Frontiers

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Researchers including those from Imperial College London and University of Exeter assess factors controlling global temperatures post ‘net zero’ and offer a pioneering framework for better estimating climate change risks. These risks must inform climate mitigation and adaptation policies to protect future generations.

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