Vermont Law

APRIL 9, 2025

Among the most cited environmental effects of war include deforestation, soil erosion, and biodiversity loss. War fuels the climate crisis and gas (and other dirty fossil fuels) fuel war. In addition, military emissions contribute to nearly 5.5% In 2023, the DOD distributed 79.5 million barrels of oilvalued at $13.3

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

MAY 20, 2025

Their leaders have been finding ways to use that authority to reduce deforestation , increase the use of renewable energy and cap and cut greenhouse gas emissions that are pushing the planet toward dangerous tipping points. They have teamed up to link carbon markets and share knowledge in many areas. In the U.S., Acre, Brazil.

Rainforest

Law Columbia

MARCH 19, 2025

corporations and institutional investors owe a fiduciary duty to maximize profits through economic activities that continue to produce, sell, and use fossil fuels (i.e. In addition, if profits can be maximized by deforestation or releasing methane or other greenhouse gases as well, then profits must again take precedence.

Law

Inside Climate News

OCTOBER 30, 2024

A decade of attribution research shows that “burning fossil fuels causes climate change and climate change causes death and destruction.”

2004

Legal Planet

APRIL 23, 2025

LA Times climate columnist Sammy Roth reread the Laudato Si encyclical , and was struck by his nuanced discussion of extreme weather and sea level rise, and the need to phase out fossil fuels making it almost certainly the most famous climate essay ever written. In that way, we just lost one of the most impactful climate communicators.

Earth Day

Yale E360

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Does it finance coal or wind power, deforestation or ecological recovery? Follow the money. Whatever politicians promise, what matters is where investment goes.

Fossil Fuels

Real Climate

APRIL 6, 2023

The term “fossil fuels”, however, is mentioned 16 times. It’s indeed true that emissions must go down, but we also must explicitly acknowledge that we need to reduce our dependence on coal, oil and gas (“fossil fuels”). Coal, on the other hand, is only mentioned once in connection with methane emissions.

Climate Change

Legal Planet

MAY 5, 2022

Mexico’s climate commitment for 2030 under the Paris Agreement calls for cutting emissions 22%, cutting black carbon by half, and achieving net-zero deforestation. AMLO has come under criticism for his commitment to fossil fuel production and refining in Mexico.

Paris Agreement

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2024

This is drawing bio-based diesel fuel out of other states and putting California and federal fuel policies into a vicious cycle that is contributing to ever more unsustainable and expensive fuel policies. California may seem like an unlikely driver of deforestation from soybean and palm oil biofuels.

Biofuels

Circle of Blue

AUGUST 11, 2021

Other tipping points include the sudden transition of the Sahara Desert into a wet climate zone and the Amazon Rainforest losing its ability to retain water due to deforestation. The report stated unequivocally, for the first time, that climate change is occurring due to “human influence,” namely the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation.

Climate Change

Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

climate conference in Glasgow: on coal, finance, methane and deforestation. by Jeff Nesbit, Yale University There were four big announcements during the first week of COP26, the U.N.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

MARCH 15, 2022

Tropical deforestation is estimated to cause more climate warming emissions than the global transportation sector , and deforestation rates have increased despite the COVID-19 pandemic. Find more information on the 12 th Annual Meeting of the GCF Task Force here. Background on the GCF Task Force.

Deforestation

Legal Planet

JULY 12, 2023

Here’s Part 1 ) Estimates vary, but California, the US, and the world will need a lot of new solar and energy storage facilities and a lot of land to put them on.

Renewable Energy

Legal Planet

JULY 25, 2023

Next time: ending deforestation. Here’s Part 1 , Part 2 , and Part 3 ). But we need action across all methane sectors and an institutional commitment among jurisdictions around the world. The climate change emergency response need not be frantic, at least not until climate change impacts become even more acute.

Deforestation

Legal Planet

JULY 5, 2023

A 2022 Rainforest Action Network repor t found that “fossil fuel financing from the world’s 60 largest banks has reached USD $4.6 trillion in the six years since the adoption of the Paris Agreement, with $742 billion in fossil fuel financing in 2021 alone.” The biggest US bank investors in fossil fuels? “At

Fossil Fuels

Circle of Blue

AUGUST 16, 2021

The report stated unequivocally, for the first time, that climate change is occurring due to “human influence,” namely the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation. The report shows that certain trends such as rising seas and shrinking ice sheets will continue even if carbon pollution is halted immediately.

2021

Real Climate

AUGUST 25, 2023

For the AMOC (and other climate tipping points ), the only action we can take to minimise the risk is to get out of fossil fuels and stop deforestation as fast as possible. In 2022, the G20 governments alone subsidised fossil fuel use with 1.4 In 2022, the G20 governments alone subsidised fossil fuel use with 1.4

Ocean

Real Climate

AUGUST 13, 2021

This is a pretty clear illustration of how sea level starts to rise slowly; but in the long run, sea-level rise caused by fossil-fuel burning and deforestation in our generation could literally go off the chart and inundate many coastal cities and wipe entire island nations off the map. But first things first.

Sea Level

A Greener Life

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Chinese emissions to peak in 2024 Offshore wind to stabilise with installations across the world starting to pickup Significant scientific breakthroughs in solar PV New nature, biodiversity and rewilding projects announced More land onshore and offshore given protection status Making progress on halting deforestation The production of fossil fuels (..)

2024

A Greener Life

JANUARY 11, 2024

degrees Celsius warmer than in the 1850-1900 pre-industrial period, when humans began burning fossil fuels on an industrial scale, pumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. The data demonstrated that on average 2023 was a whole 1.48 Extraordinarily, the data also showed that the 1.5C

2023

Environmental Progress

JUNE 29, 2020

Over the last few years I helped save enough nuclear plants from being replaced by fossil fuels to prevent a sharp increase in emissions But until last year, I mostly avoided speaking out against the climate scare. Environmental groups have accepted hundreds of millions of dollars from fossil fuel interests.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Generating and storing clean energy is a lifeline for the planet’s future; burning coal, oil, and gas fossil fuels causes 75% of greenhouse gas emissions. A fossil fuel energy grid extracts and expends finite resources. Nickel mines can cause deforestation and water and soil contamination, such as in Claver , Philippines.

Renewable Energy

A Greener Life

AUGUST 2, 2021

decrease in global forest biocapacity due in large part to the spike in Amazon deforestation. million hectares of forest were lost in 2020 and estimates for 2021 indicate up to 43% year-over-year increase in deforestation. from last year as the economic recovery from the pandemic ignites demand for fossil fuels.

Deforestation

A Greener Life

APRIL 11, 2022

They added that due to the increase in climate-friendly policies and laws we have seen enhanced energy efficiency, reduced deforestation rates and accelerated the deployment of renewable energy. They pointed to the fact that since 2010 the cost of solar, wind and battery technology has decreased by up to 85%.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

JULY 18, 2023

On the contrary, investing in carbon capture delays the needed transition away from fossil fuels and other combustible energy sources. Here’s Part 1 and Part 2 ).

Fossil Fuels

A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

In addition, there have also been concerns expressed that NGO’s and civil society were being sidelined during the talks, while the fossil fuel industry was given crucial access. Inside the world leaders are hailing what they call momentous breakthroughs in ambition and progress on halting deforestation and eliminating coal.

Fossil Fuels

Edouard Stenger

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Fatih Birol, the Executive Director of the International Energy Agency stated on Twitter that he remains optimistic : The United States and over 80 other countries wanted the official declaration to include the intention to phase out fossil fuels.

Fossil Fuels

A Greener Life

DECEMBER 13, 2021

My partner and I have long questioned whether it was right to bring a child into the world in the middle of the climate crisis , grappling with whether or not it’s fair to bring her into a future of ferocious wildfires across multiple ecosystems, escalating deforestation, devastating floods, melting ice caps, crippling droughts, locust storms, etc.

Fossil Fuels

A Greener Life

MARCH 25, 2022

This has given a much-needed boost to the drive to wean the world off fossil fuels and transition to renewable energy. The Ukraine conflict has dramatically underlined the imperative to shift to cleaner energy sources, not just to reduce emissions, but to dilute the influence of oil and gas on geopolitics.

Deforestation

Circle of Blue

MAY 31, 2022

It argues that the mine is a domestic source of minerals needed for batteries and other non-fossil fuel energy. Such activities could include water pollution from illegal gold mining, deforestation, and drug cultivation. Public comments are being accepted through July 5. Three public hearings will be held in June.

Clean Water Act

A Greener Life

MARCH 24, 2023

President Gustavo Petro, who has been in power since August last year, has pledged to lead an ambitious green agenda focused on reduced deforestation , a transition away from fossil fuels and protection of water resources. By 2026 it wants to reforest an area of 750,000 hectares.

Deforestation

Physics World

JANUARY 19, 2022

Sent up by universities, governments and start-ups, they do everything from monitoring deforestation to tracking radio-tagged endangered animals. Of course, there is an environmental cost to space, with most launches relying on fossil fuels. They typically last for no more than five years, burning up when done.

Fossil Fuels

Acoel

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Industrial food systems are responsible for one-third of greenhouse gas emissions and are a key driver of deforestation and biodiversity loss , threatening more than 85 percent of the 28,000 species at risk of extinction. Posted on December 23, 2022 by Smita Narula. Image by Charles Echer from Pixabay.

Climate Change

A Greener Life

AUGUST 13, 2021

The comprehensive report leaves no one in doubt that every corner of the Earth is now impacted by climate change , the change caused by the burning of fossil fuels and other human activities. Unprecedented. It finds that many of the changes observed in the climate are unprecedented in thousands if not hundreds of thousands of years.

Sea Level

Enviromental Defense

JUNE 13, 2024

Ecojustice, Greenpeace Canada, Stand.earth, Environmental Defence Canada, Keepers of the Water, Leadnow, For Our Kids, and Change Course call on the five major Canadian banks to take responsibility for the impact of their investments in fossil fuels, which are exacerbating the climate crisis.

Fossil Fuels

Physics World

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The alarm bells are deafening,” he warned, “and the evidence is irrefutable: greenhouse-gas emissions from fossil-fuel burning and deforestation are choking our planet and putting billions of people at immediate risk.”.

Climate Change

Environmental Progress

JUNE 14, 2020

Apocalypse Never contains chapters on climate change, deforestation, species extinction, plastic waste, meat, nuclear, renewables, fossil fuels, poverty, and much more. Dear Friends, I am happy to announce that on June 30, HarperCollins will publish my new book, Apocalypse Never.

Deforestation