Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

There’s much on the agenda at this year’s summit, including negotiations on what measures countries are willing to take to cut emissions in line with the Paris Agreement—a commitment they made at COP21 back in 2015. To secure a livable future for people and the planet for generations to come. The legacy of Sharm el-Sheikh: up to u s.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Representatives from civil society, non-governmental organizations and the private sector gathered alongside governmental representatives to influence decisions and advance contributions toward the goals of the Paris Agreement of 2015. I was joined by Ocean Conservancy colleagues working to advance ocean-climate action.

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 1, 2022

Their work paved the way for international agreements to tackle the crisis like the Kyoto Protocol and Paris Agreement. It is a clear demonstration for how our future depends on society’s choices and the political will of those in leadership positions. degrees warming by 2050 and as much as 2.7 degrees by 2100.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

warming limit of the Paris Agreement within reach, the report notes. across G20 countries in 2021, to above pre-pandemic levels. What stands in the way of progress is the need for governments in the G20 to take the political decisions to get the transformation underway,” he said. Loss and damage.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Even before adoption of the 1992 Framework Convention, the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) had proposed an “International Insurance Pool” to pay vulnerable countries based on observed sea level rise. In the 2015 Paris Agreement , Article 8 acknowledged the importance of L&D and the accompanying decision 1/CP.21

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Frontiers

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

C limit of the 2015 Paris Agreement, this needs to happen as soon as possible. At this point, they remain political. And history teaches us that political obstacles can be overcome,” he wrote in an editorial accompanying the article, also published in Frontiers in Science.   To keep within the 1.5°C

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Ocean Conservancy

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

It puts the wildlife and communities that depend on the ocean at risk through impacts like ocean acidification, sea level rise and temperature changes. Climate change is the single greatest threat our ocean faces.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Sea level rise has caused saltwater to intrude into the islands’ soil, such that areas previously used for traditional gardening can no longer be cultivated. However, the Committee found that it was appropriate to consider violations of the Paris Agreement and other international treaties under the ICCPR.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Low-income residents in the slums of Gambia’s capital city face severe flooding as sea levels rise and infrastructure deteriorates. World leaders reach a climate agreement, disappointing many environmental activists. Water projects across the Navajo Nation could cost $4 billion. Drinking Water Directives by Ireland.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Lest one thinks this disconnect is a failure of the global climate architecture, the failure lies much closer to home—in the domestic politics in the US and many other countries that continue to favor the interests of the rich and powerful , and fossil fuel companies, at the expense of the health and safety of everyone else and the planet.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

As water and water runoff does not respect political boundaries, international laws on conservation and use are common and applied, especially where there is shared use and responsibility or competing claims to it. We are already seeing the depletion of the ice caps and rising sea levels. Key Current US Environmental Laws.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

One party challenging the Master Program—Citizen’s Alliance for Property Rights Jefferson County (CAPR)—had argued that a provision in the Master Program goals section addressing climate change and sea-level rise was unconstitutionally vague. Exxon Mobil Corp. Schneiderman , No. 1:17 -cv-02301-VEC (S.D.N.Y. June 16, 2017).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 6, 2022

Danger season, together with ongoing slow-moving disasters like sea level rise, is pushing people and ecosystems to their limits in many places. It is also a critical part of their commitments under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Agreement.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 30, 2022

What’s more, all of these intersecting and compounding crises reveal similar fundamental flaws in our current social, political and economic systems—including that those who are most marginalized in society suffer disproportionate harms. A rapid clean energy transition is (still) the best path forward.

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Arnold Porter

JULY 16, 2021

uncertain costs and losses resulting from damage to property or assets, such as a mortgage portfolio, caused by weather events, sea-level rise, increasing temperatures, etc.) Her key takeaways were (1) “[t]here is no general requirement under the securities laws to reveal all material information. and (b) transition risks (i.e.,

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Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 30, 2019

Also elephants, giraffes, rhinos (of the non-political variety), Cape buffalo, baboons, uninvited monkeys at lunch, hippos, wildebeests, hyenas, warthogs and an unexpected (to me) penguin colony. A fall trip to South Africa, followed closely by the holidays, made October-December something of a blur. African Penguin: The Cape.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

During Trump’s first term, the US became the first nation in the world to announce its withdrawal from the Paris Agreement (a decision reversed by Joe Biden in 2021). Under the Paris Agreement , nations agreed to set a new climate finance target by 2025 – a New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG). billion of the USD 115.9

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 18, 2025

Earlier today, my colleague Shaina Sadai released a peer-reviewed study that links emissions traced to the Carbon Majors to present-day and future sea level rise. The US has pulled out of the Paris Agreement and stopped federal scientists from engaging with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change , a global scientific body.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The plaintiffs alleged that Peabody (and a number of other fossil fuel companies) caused greenhouse gas emissions that resulted in sea level rise and damage to their property. Peabody, a coal company, filed for bankruptcy in April 2016 and emerged from bankruptcy under a plan that became effective on April 3, 2017.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 7, 2019

CLF’s allegations included that the landfill’s coastal location “makes it extremely vulnerable to climate change impacts, including sea level rise and damaging storm surge, creating a significant risk of erosion and of pollution from the Landfill washing into the surrounding rivers and coastal wetlands.” California v. Bernhardt , No.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Cop stands for conference of the parties under the UNFCCC, and the annual meetings have swung between fractious and soporific, interspersed with moments of high drama and the occasional triumph ( the Paris agreement in 2015 ) and disaster (Copenhagen in 2009). Why do we need a Cop – don’t we already have the Paris agreement?

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The majority said it “reluctantly” concluded that “the plaintiffs’ case must be made to the political branches or to the electorate at large” and “[t]hat the other branches may have abdicated their responsibility to remediate the problem does not confer on Article III courts, no matter how well-intentioned, the ability to step into their shoes.”

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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2018

The court stated that the issue arose “because a necessary and critical element of the hydrological damage caused by defendants’ alleged conduct is the rising sea level along the Pacific coast and in the San Francisco Bay, both of which are navigable waters of the United States.” BP p.l.c. , 18-cv-182 (S.D.N.Y. joint letter Mar.

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Science Blogs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Actual Scientists Say Sea-Level Rise Is A Threat To Tangier Island, Virginia. Wind Industry Tacks as Trump Shifts the Political Climate. Why Trump Pulling Out of the Paris Agreement Led to a Stronger Global Climate Change Plan. G20 world leaders’ agreement hinges on U.S. 2017.06.14. 2017.06.14. 2017.06.14.

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Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2021

The County asserted that the defendants were “directly responsible for a substantial portion of the climate crisis-related impacts in Anne Arundel County,” including sea level rise, storm surge, and flooding, as well as more frequent, longer-lasting, and more severe extreme weather events.

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