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Climate Litigation Is Increasing as Government Action Falters

DeSmogBlog

“Litigation has a key role to play in light of this lack of ambition from states and other stakeholders,” said Maria Antonia Tigre, director of global climate litigation at the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University. While not a silver bullet solution, she told DeSmog, litigation is certainly “part of the answer.”

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Review of Climate Policy Options

Low Carbon Prosperity

In other cases where fewer practical lower cost alternatives exist, the demand for a commodity is “inelastic.” Emitting carbon pollution causes local air pollution and health costs plus the economic damages from storms, crop-loss, forest fires, rising sea-levels, ocean acidification, spread of disease and other issues.

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Video Storytelling: 20 Best Climate Change and Sustainability Documentaries (Plus How To Tell Your Green Story)

Green Business Bureau

These include climate change, biosphere integrity (functional and generic), land-system change, freshwater use, biogeochemical flows (nitrogen and phosphorus), ocean acidification, atmospheric aerosol pollution, stratospheric ozone depletion, and the release of novel chemicals. Length: 1 hour 24 minutes. 7: I Am Greta.

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Every region of the country is taking climate action. Here’s how.

Grist

Grist staff Since the last National Climate Assessment in 2018, scientific advancements — increased confidence in the links between climate change and weather disasters , for example, and the connections between climate and environmental justice — have improved our understanding of the crisis and bolstered awareness. Some go even further.