Law Columbia

APRIL 9, 2024

The judgment sends an important signal to all member states, in particular those whose climate mitigation measures lag significantly behind the goals of the Paris Agreement. The court has demonstrated that the system of European human rights protection is able to respond to arguably the greatest global threat to human rights.

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Climate Change Paris Agreement Law Coastal Erosion 138

Real Climate

AUGUST 13, 2021

The take-away message is: for high emissions we’d likely get close to a meter, sticking to the Paris agreement would cut that down to half a meter. We would see massive coastal erosion happening all around. That depends on our emissions and is shown in the following figure. Source: IPCC AR6, Figure SPM.8.

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Sea Level Precautionary Principle Ocean Coastal Erosion 363

A Greener Life

AUGUST 13, 2021

degrees C threshold in the next decades which countries had agreed as the desirable target in 2015’s Paris Agreement. In the report, researchers set out new estimates for the chances of crossing the 1.5 They found that unless there are immediate, rapid and large-scale reductions to the agreed limits of warming to 1.5

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Sea Level Climate Change Fossil Fuels Coastal Erosion 98