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?

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Yale E360

JANUARY 13, 2021

Although climate change is often blamed for coastal inundation in places like the Bay of Bengal, other factors such as dam building and urbanization play an important role. Scientists say that more sustainable development policies can help blunt the impacts of rising seas. Read more on E360 ?.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Over the past 20 years, the majority of flood losses have occurred in Asia, where climate change-induced rainfall is expected to hit the hardest. Climate change is poised to thrust billions more into water insecurity. Photo © GKarunakar / Wikimedia Commons. The risks have intensified in the last two decades.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 12, 2021

Joeri Rogelj is Director of Research, Grantham Institute Climate Change & Environment, Imperial College London, UK, and Senior Research Scholar, International Institute for Appl ied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria. Nature Climate Change. In: Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis.

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Environmental Law Centre

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Lessons Learned from Canada’s Record on Climate Change Join the Environmental Law Centre as we welcome Canada’s Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development (CESD) to discuss federal climate change actions.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Inspired by the book All We Can Save , a celebration of the feminist climate renaissance , we asked 15 local women who are thinking about and working on climate change to respond to the question: “If we are at a crossroads of peril and promise, where do you see possibility alive and growing?”.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

This important gathering, known as COP28 (which stands for the ‘Conference of the Parties’), is the 28th annual United Nations climate negotiations since the establishment of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in 1995. Each year the movement to Kick Big Polluters Out of climate negotiations grows.

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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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Environmental and Urban Economics

MAY 13, 2021

We face a serious climate change adaptation challenge. They are wrong to doubt the ability of our society to continue to flourish in the face of climate change. Climate Change Adaptation Will Offer a Sharp Test of the Claims of Behavioral Economics ," The Economists' Voice , De Gruyter, vol. Rhode, 2012.

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Environmental Law Centre

MARCH 17, 2022

Video and Links: Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development, Office of the Auditor General of Canada: Lessons Learned from Canada’s Record on Climate Change ? ? The post Video and Links: Lessons Learned from Canada’s Record on Climate Change appeared first on Environmental Law Centre.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

2: Increasing international climate finance This year, at COP29, nations will also have to agree on the quantum of international climate finance that richer nations will provide post-2025 to help lower-income nations cut their heat-trapping emissions and adapt to climate change.

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Environmental News Bits

APRIL 16, 2024

“Strengthening partnerships for the Sustainable Development Goals: Engaging faith-based organizations and scientists in youth climate change learning and action.” ” Sustainable Earth Reviews, 7(1), 7. Boorse, D. F., & Jablonski, L.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

In this blog post, we will briefly explain (i) the background of climate change laws in Colombia, (ii) the nature and reach of the ‘ Acción de Cumplimiento ,’ and (iii) the two judgments and their implications for climate action in Colombia. Decree 298 of 2016 on the National Climate Change System.

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Ocean Conservancy

APRIL 12, 2022

In October 2021, I had the honor of joining world leaders, activists and other representatives from non-governmental organizations in Glasgow for the United Nations Climate Change Conference (also known as COP26). The central message of the conference was abundantly clear: the impacts of climate change are all around us.

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

climate conference gets underway on Oct. 31, 2021, you’ll be hearing a lot of technical terms tossed around: mitigation, carbon neutral, sustainable development. by Wändi Bruine de Bruin, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences As a major U.N. The language can feel overwhelming. “It

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 23, 2023

Several ways to calculate carbon emissions exist, but the most widely used and accepted is the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protoco l developed by the World Resources Institute and World Business Council for Sustainable Development. The scientific fact is that the world has a limited carbon budget.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

The importance of prefabrication lies in its ability to streamline building processes while minimizing the environmental impact—a crucial step toward sustainable development. Plus, no-till methods help lock carbon into the soil, doubling as a climate-change-fighting technique. Now, let’s talk about the ‘circular economy’.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 20, 2023

It is not the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, which resulted in UN conventions on three major environmental issues: biodiversity, climate change, and desertification. One is rather obscure: the International Decade for Action on Water for Sustainable Development. There have been undoubted successes for water and sanitation.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The Climate Overshoot Commission recently completed its work, releasing its report at the United Nations last Thursday, September 14. General Assembly and a collection of high-level climate and environment events, including the Sustainable Development Goals Summit , 18-19 Sept, and the Climate Ambition Summit , 20 Sept.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 4, 2022

Allegheny College in Crawford County will host the Fifth World Symposium on Sustainable Development at Universities (WSSD-U-2022), June 16–17, 2022. This year's symposium focuses on "Educating the Sustainability Leaders of the Future" and will contribute to development of this fast-growing field.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 6, 2024

Statement by Emilia Belliveau, Energy Transition Program Manager Ottawa | Traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People – At today’s Parliamentary Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development (ENVI), Members of Parliament grilled the fossil fuel industry about their climate pollution.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Philadelphia artist Miriam Singer designed the visionary scene as part of the Global Philadelphia Association’s campaign to raise awareness of the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations. Speaking at the dedication celebration on Nov. “Watershed Daydreams” by Miriam Singer.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 31, 2024

This important gathering, known as COP29 (which stands for the ‘Conference of the Parties’), is the 29th annual United Nations climate negotiations since the establishment of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in 1995. to support countries needing help with climate adaptation and emission reduction.

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Frontiers

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

With all eyes on the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) this month, we have curated a list of our best Research Topics addressing the four goals of the conference. degrees within reach, adapting to protect natural habitats, mobilizing climate finance, and tackling the crisis through collaboration. 3) Mobilize finance.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 18, 2025

Inspired by the United Nations' 17 Sustainable Development Goals , students used hip-hop, jazz, and spoken word to tackle pressing environmental issues such as climate change, deforestation, and social sustainability.

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Legal Planet

JULY 13, 2021

This element is particularly important to capture – or better, to deter – acts not yet prohibited but in blatant violation of the principles of sustainable development. Endangerment : Notably, the criminal act consists of creating a dangerous situation, rather than actually producing the effects.

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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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Environment, Law, and History

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

A recent issue of Nature Climate Change carried an article by Jonas Meckling & Bentley B. Allan, " The evolution of ideas in global climate policy". The abstract: From carbon pricing to green industrial policy, economic ideas have shaped climate policy.

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Clean Energy Law

MARCH 15, 2024

In response to climate change, the Guidelines mandate the disclosure of Scope 1 and Scope 2 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, while the reporting of Scope 3 GHG emissions remains voluntary.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Climate change and deforestation are reshaping the monsoon season, causing ice on the Tibetan plateau to melt , and affecting freshwater supplies to more than one billion people. Rising global temperatures are changing evaporation patterns and reducing moisture feedback from forests, disrupting downwind rainfall.

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Clean Energy Law

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Green , James Bee , and Kevin Mak On 3 December 2023, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) unveiled the Singapore-Asia Taxonomy for Sustainable Finance (Taxonomy) at the United Nations COP28 climate conference in Dubai.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

JULY 30, 2021

These rare storms are expected to become more frequent with climate change as a warmer atmosphere can hold (and during storms release!) While increased infrastructure flooding is a major concern in urban areas, riverine and coastal flooding are also exacerbated by development and likely to be amplified by climate change.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 10, 2024

The latest episode of the Penn State Growing Impact podcast explores how the younger generation is getting involved in climate research and policy. As the world wrestles with climate change and its impacts, there is growing interest in addressing climate change among the younger generation.

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Breezometer

JUNE 7, 2022

We’re already experiencing the impact of climate change across the world; now an update from the IPCC suggests weather extremes could become the norm in the near future. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the United Nations body for assessing the science related to climate change.

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Frontiers

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

UN Sustainable Development Goals – Quality Education. The initiative is also part of Frontiers’ commitment to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, particularly Goal 4 – Quality Education. What better role models to inspire future generations of scientists than Nobel Prize winners themselves.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Ottawa | Traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People – Representatives from the Green Party of Canada, the NDP, the Bloc Québécois and Environmental Defence will participate in a press conference to address the findings of the recent Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development (CESD) report, highlighting the (..)

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Law Columbia

APRIL 8, 2022

The amended Article 41 is particularly innovative within the realm of European Constitutions insofar as it explicitly relates the carrying out of economic activities to the protection of the environment and – one might argue – to the fight against climate change. This reform bears thus a two-fold implication. 179/2019 ).

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