New Scientist

JUNE 14, 2024

The UK’s journey to net zero has stalled – whoever wins the 4 July election will need to get it moving again, but many climate scientists are frustrated with what the main parties are offering

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Law Columbia

APRIL 4, 2024

National governments are the most important systemic actors in the governance of climate action, primarily because they are the only actors with the ability to adopt economy-wide decarbonization measures. Over 80 government framework cases have been filed around the world, using a wide variety of legal and factual arguments.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Last year, I posted about the contributions made by Black climate scientists. As the federal government increasingly came in the grip of Jim Crow around the turn of the century, Brown was shamefully mistreated and demoted. Yesterday was the start of Black History Month. area on topics such as “The Social Habits of Insects.”

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

“Pakistan, which is already facing political and economic turmoil, has been thrown into the front line of the human-induced climate crisis,” a U.N. Climate scientists forecast with medium confidence that continued atmospheric warming will cause more erratic and powerful monsoons in South Asia. statement read earlier this week.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 15, 2022

Hardship swiftly followed: the government began periodic water shutoffs in early 2022, and declared a state of emergency in June. The current water shortages continue the region’s seven-year dry spell, an event that climate scientists link to the warming of the planet. The result is inequitable access to water.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Shared groundwater systems, once an obscure issue, are now a top priority, especially as the world’s rivers are stressed by a warming climate. Scientists have identified 468 of these transboundary groundwater basins. Groundwater has not been governed like surface water has. Nearly every country has one.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

President-elect Gabriel Boric’s new government must address issues of decarbonisation, water crisis and lithium nationalisation, all while rewriting the country’s constitution. In our government, it will be a priority to avoid this destruction and to have development that is compatible with the environment.”. By Francisco Parra Galaz

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Inside Climate News

MAY 26, 2023

The famed researcher publicly released a preliminary version of a paper-in-progress with grim predictions of short- and long-term warming, but not all climate scientists agree with its conclusions.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 10, 2021

While we know tailings are currently leaking toxic water into groundwater, the government has done no study on the health impact this has had – despite high rates of rare cancers in the First Nations communities downstream. Government is failing to enforce existing laws meant to protect people and the environment in the oil sands .

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Climate litigation is rapidly expanding. As cases multiply, they increasingly depend on rigorous, interdisciplinary research to provide the evidence needed to hold governments, corporations, and other actors accountable for their role in the climate crisis, and to inform meaningful climate action.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 16, 2021

In the United Kingdom, government leaders are hoping to solve two problems with one effort. The UK government has allocated 4 million pounds for a test run of the concept. According to Reuters, in late July scientists noted the third-largest loss of ice in Greenland in a single day. Transcript. I’m Eileen Wray-McCann.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 19, 2024

Accelerating risks from climate change are colliding with shortcomings in insurance markets—such as a lack of transparent information and affordability provisions—to create a perfect storm for people and communities on the front lines of floods, droughts, and wildfires.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 18, 2022

The latest IPCC report even recognizes litigation as a powerful strategy, noting that, “Outside the formal climate policy processes, climate litigation is an important arena for various actors to confront and interact over how climate change should be governed.”

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Krystal Babcock, a resident of Merritt, British Columbia, was unable to leave her home when t he government ordered residents to evacuate on Monday, staying back to care for her elderly parents who could not leave. There are three main factors why, climate scientist Simon Donnor explained to the Globe and Mail.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Climate scientists at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) have dubbed the six-month stretch from May through October “ Danger Season ” because of the confluence of extreme weather—record heat, raging wildfires, severe storms, and flooding—that is putting people at risk around the world.

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 28, 2024

Climate impacts contributed to overall poor cereal harvests The poor harvests should be seen in the light of record-breaking rain in the 2023/24 winter, which climate scientists say is exacerbated by climate change. Climate resilient crop analysis: Could rye grain show what sustainable cereal agriculture could look like?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 5, 2024

This post was co-authored by UCS Principal Climate Scientist Kristina Dahl. The IPCC is a collaborative panel consisting of 195 member governments. Representatives of these member governments convene in Plenary Sessions, like the one we just attended. Who is making decisions at IPCC meetings?

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Inside Climate News

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Climate scientists, meanwhile, expressed interest but said the breakthrough must not deter the world’s ongoing quest to counter global warming. government scientists last week were able to ignite fusion with a net energy gain—a long-sought milestone in the quest for a carbon-free energy future.

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Inside Climate News

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Climate scientists, meanwhile, expressed interest but said the breakthrough must not deter the world’s ongoing quest to counter global warming. government scientists last week were able to ignite fusion with a net energy gain—a long-sought milestone in the quest for a carbon-free energy future.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 11, 2021

Heat waves aren’t just uncomfortable, they’re also deadly to humans, and to animals.” – Nerilie Abram, a climate scientists at Australian National University. According to data from the Imran Khan government, more than 50 percent of water from various sources in 20 cities in Pakistan is unsafe to drink, the Hindustan Times reports.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 15, 2023

In the 103-page decision , the court relies heavily on the facts laid out by these climate scientists who testified under oath and faced cross-examination. The state failed to show that the MEPA limitation serves a compelling government interest,” the decision reads.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

It is noteworthy not because it contains anything new (it doesn’t), but because despite clearly violating the established standards of good scientific practice, it was published by a government agency. This warming was predicted not only by independent university and government scientists, but also by scientists from the oil company Exxon.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 6, 2024

In addition, the Business Council of Canada (BCC), an industry group to which the banks belong, has pushed the federal government to label fossil fuels as green under the federal government’s proposed sustainable finance taxonomy (a classification system for green investments). Canadians are being misled.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The subsequent rise of attribution science has been able to prove the direct correlation between climate change and specific disasters like drought, wildfires, and extreme heat. Climate scientists at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) even have linked disasters to individual companies , some of which are state-owned like Saudi Aramco.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 20, 2023

This new research found that ExxonMobil’s climate projections from its internally developed models accurately projected the temperature rise that has happened since then and that its calculations were in line with independent research produced at the time by academic and government scientists.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

We live in a world that markets individual action as the singular solution to climate change, instead of corporate and governmental accountability, where multinational companies and the governments that endorse them are largely responsible for the excessive carbon in our atmosphere. Seeing them come to life in court was powerful.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 9, 2021

As climate scientists we tend to look at the IPCC reports a little differently than the general public might. Here are a few things that mark this report out from previous versions that relate to issues we’ve discussed here before: Extreme events are increasingly connected to climate (duh!)

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 15, 2024

It would counter the expertise of climate scientists, and would damage the label’s credibility internationally,” said Julie Segal, Senior Manager of Climate Finance at Environmental Defence Canada. “To Over three-quarters of people in Canada want new rules to address greenwashing within the financial sector.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 19, 2021

One thing is that this report, which is the best available climate science data pulled together by the world’s best climate scientists, concluded that it is now very unlikely that the pledged 1.5 They could put everything on hold due to the coronavirus whose impacts are nothing compared to the climate crisis.

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Greenbuilding Law

JUNE 18, 2023

In this instance, 16 young people from across Montana, who were between 2 and 18 years old when the case was filed in 2020, brought their constitutional climate lawsuit, Held v. State of Montana , against their state government. What would the impact be when the conservative Montana legislative branch sides with the executive branch?

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A Greener Life

JULY 19, 2022

As a result, the UK government followed the move of London Mayor Sadiq Khan and declared the heatwave a national emergency. The UK is getting warmer and experiencing more frequent, prolonged and extreme heat spells and heatwaves in line with what climate scientists have warned about for decades.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

By Anders Lorenzen The former Chief Scientist for the UK Government, Sir David King did not hold back the scientific reality of years of climate inaction when he addressed the audience at the Net Zero Festival in London, organised by Business Green, a clean energy publication.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 30, 2022

Fossil fuels are the root cause of climate change, of long-standing environmental injustices, and are also frequently connected to geopolitical strife and violent conflicts. Multiple crises colliding with climate change.

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Breezometer

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

As Founder and Director of Clean Air in London, Simon pressured city and federal governments for nearly a decade and managed to get the U.K. government to provide the official figures on premature deaths caused by air pollution. Dr. Gabriela Adler - Climate Scientist. Owner of a master’s degree and a Ph.D.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 6, 2023

Like most older millennials, climate change has shaped my time on planet Earth. As a new Senior Climate Scientist at UCS, it’s my job to pay attention and connect dots between climate and weather as well as between impacts and adaptation. Count of extreme events in Yolo and Sacramento counties from Sept 2011 to July 2019.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 5, 2023

Vanuatu , vulnerable to the effects of climate change and global warming, brings the question of other governments’ climate inaction to the world’s highest court. Crucially, Uganda’s glaciers are disappearing faster than scientists can glean information from them about the country and continent’s climate past and future.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 10, 2023

Asked about this strategy by my Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) colleague Laura Peterson during BP’s annual general meeting last month, CEO Bernard Looney replied , “It’s not financial maneuvering, it’s financial optimization.” Please join us—and share your additions to this glossary!

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