DeSmogBlog
AUGUST 18, 2023
The Thursday hearing centered on the fossil fuel defendants’ contention that federal law, not state, applies to the case. of the firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, stated that given the global nature of the climate problem, state law cannot apply. It’s definitely the case to watch. Boutrous, Jr.,
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
Renewable Energy World
NOVEMBER 17, 2021
Though it’s insulated from sea level rise, the state of Iowa faces many dangerous climate change impacts — which in turn threaten the nation’s food supply. Josh Mandelbaum, Senior Attorney at the Environmental Law & Policy Center, was elected to Des Moines City Council in 2017. Originally published on ILSR.org .
Grist
MARCH 22, 2021
They also write that Harvard’s fossil fuel investments threaten its own physical property by exacerbating flooding and sea-level rise. There’s no agreed-upon definition for what net-zero means in the financial sector, and Harvard hasn’t yet landed on a methodology. except for Pennsylvania, has adopted. “An
Energy Innovation
MARCH 4, 2022
Second, risks related to doing business in a changing physical environment, including increasingly severe extreme weather events, changing precipitation patterns, rising temperatures, and sea-level rise. For analysis of climate extremes : Extreme events, by definition, are rare and therefore less well understood.
Business Green
FEBRUARY 3, 2020
So, our current generation of politicians and business leaders - on the whole even older than me - definitely aren't making plans for New Year's Eve 2099. Most recently, of course, being the first major economy to put into law a commitment to get to net-zero emissions by the middle of the century. It's time to act.
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