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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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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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 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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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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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 30, 2024

There is a real need and opportunity to invest in people, and communities—and scientists, government agencies, community leaders, mutual aid groups, and more folks must work together on solutions. Climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe asserts that talking about climate change is the most important thing we can do.

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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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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

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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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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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The Inflation Reduction Act is directing $20B toward climate-resilient agriculture Reducing heat-trapping carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions through policies that drive renewable energy and clean transportation has well known benefits.

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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

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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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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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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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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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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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

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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Circle of Blue

JUNE 2, 2021

With the federal government now projecting that Lake Mead will drop precipitously in the next two years — perhaps to levels not seen since the Great Depression, when the country’s largest reservoir was first filled — that emergency has arrived. The false sense of security is what irks Brad Udall about ICS.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 2, 2022

This week’s report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the world’s leading climate scientists, paints a terrifying picture of the future if Canada and the world don’t tackle fossil fuels with urgency. Will he follow through with a policy that limits carbon pollution from Canada’s #1 polluters?

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

Throughout his career, Minott and the Clean Air Council earned a reputation for holding government agencies and fossil fuel companies accountable. Michael Mann - Climate Champion Award PennFuture honored Dr. Michael E. A prolific writer, Mr. Minott penned several impactful Op-Eds year over year for newspapers across Pennsylvania.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 5, 2021

They said the government was not doing enough to help them, while 16 planes and 51 helicopters tackled the blazes across a swathe of southwest Turkey. Climate scientists have long predicted that the Mediterranean will be hit hard by rising temperatures and changes in rainfall, driven by human emissions.

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 6, 2023

These examples are some of the most severe climate impacts the world experienced in 2023, though endless examples could be cited of how the whole planet was ravaged by extreme weather events in 2023. Scientists, climate advocates, governments around the world as well as ordinary citizens will be concerned having seen what just 1.4

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 24, 2021

That was the timeline laid down by the most prestigious body of climate scientists for limiting warming to 1.5 You…through government subsidies. This is what they mean when they say that their strategy needs “significant collaboration between industry and government.” Source: Oil Change International.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Wealthy nations have not even delivered a $100bn annual fund to help developing nations with climate mitigation and adaptation, which had been promised for 2020 onwards. While most climate scientists are not directly involved in high-level negotiations, their work is essential to the process. Courtesy: Steven Sherwood.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 30, 2023

Trials I recently returned to the Union of Concerned Scientists as the Wester States Regional Director. Previously, I was a Senior Climate Scientist, and as such I was part of an effort to address unregulated groundwater mining in California through the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (or SGMA). David wins a round!

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Legal Planet

JULY 12, 2023

“Declaratory relief will help restore Plaintiffs’ confidence in the functioning of their democracy and demonstrate to them that there is recourse for government conduct that violates their constitutional rights while making clear Defendants are not above the law,” they write in their proposed finding of facts and conclusions of law.

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