Envirotec Magazine
OCTOBER 2, 2023
The research looked to explore this and identified biodiversity loss, sea-level rise, and extreme weather events as the most crucial topics to tackle in terms of overall impact, urgency, and geographical reach. The oceans can provide various ‘services’ to help tackle these issues, and fourteen solutions were evaluated.
DeSmogBlog
JUNE 28, 2021
The new study from the Oxford Sustainable Law Programme and Environmental Change Institute, Filling the evidentiary gap in climate litigation, finds that many lawsuits have not used the latest advances in attribution science as evidence. The study reviewed 73 climate litigation cases against polluters across 14 jurisdictions.
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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
DeSmogBlog
SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
But the event was overshadowed by the major polluters who didn’t attend. 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.
Energy Innovation
MARCH 4, 2022
Extreme weather events. 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. Supply-chain shortages. Economic fallout. Petabytes of tempting data.
DeSmogBlog
JUNE 21, 2021
The tide is turning against Louisiana’s proposed $2 billion Mississippi River sediment diversion project, that supporters say is needed to save the coast from rapid land loss due to subsidence, damage done by the oil and gas industry, extreme weather events, and sea level rise quickened by climate change.
DeSmogBlog
DECEMBER 21, 2022
Giant inflatable Christmas decorations, including polar bears and penguins wearing Christmas hats, grace yards — some of which still have tell-tale signs of damage from extreme weather events. Living with the aftermath of an extreme weather event is personal for me — and is another front on which I’ve experienced gaslighting this year.
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