DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 18, 2023

As more than two dozen climate liability lawsuits by state and local governments against fossil fuel companies continue to progress, a case brought by the city and county of Honolulu could become the first to put Big Oil on trial. Arguing for the oil companies, attorney Theodore J. Boutrous, Jr.,

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 28, 2021

However, attempts to hold emitters to account for climate-related damages in court have largely failed because plaintiffs have not been able to link definitively the harms caused by climate change with greenhouse gas emissions. The power of climate litigation is increasingly clear”, said lead author Rupert Stuart-Smith.

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Grist

APRIL 8, 2022

But a group of nations led by the Republic of the Marshall Islands — a low-lying island nation at risk of being swallowed up by sea-level rise if the world warms by 2 degrees — formed a “High Ambition Coalition” which sought to enshrine a lower, more ambitious temperature target. As of 2020, the planet had already warmed by 1.2

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Grist

MARCH 22, 2021

College students fighting to get their schools to stop investing in fossil fuels have stumbled on a new idea that could bring fresh attention to their cause: Those investments might be illegal. They also write that Harvard’s fossil fuel investments threaten its own physical property by exacerbating flooding and sea-level rise.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

of warming is just about still feasible, and keeping temperature increases below 2C is definitely achievable if rapid action is taken. Sluggish progress on decarbonisation to date mean that greenhouse gas emissions need to be reduced by 43 per cent by 2030 and 60 per cent by 2035 on 2019 levels, according to the findings.

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Grist

OCTOBER 9, 2019

But as sea levels rise and the islands continue to subside, the costs of fortifying and maintaining the structures may exceed the value of the land and agricultural production behind them, says Alf Brandt, counsel to the State Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon. Fossil fuels, you might say, are an aged form of blue carbon.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 2, 2021

It’s time to update that definition to include sudden, dramatic swings among judges and juries. That's one takeaway from the landmark ruling last week by a three-judge panel in the Netherlands ordering Royal Dutch Shell to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 45 percent compared to 2019 levels by the end of 2030. degrees Celsius.

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