DeSmogBlog
APRIL 4, 2024
Since the Paris Agreement was signed in 2015, a small number of fossil fuel entities — just 57 corporate and state producers — have been responsible for 80 percent of planet-warming carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. And a majority of those actors have only expanded production in the intervening years.
Business Green
APRIL 4, 2023
It added that overfishing to key species in delicate food webs also heaped "unwanted additional pressure" on oceans that are also facing major challenges from climate change, ocean acidification, and warming seas. Fishing communities and wildlife depend on this species, but continued overfishing is putting both at risk.
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DeSmogBlog
SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
In 2015, the Hague District Court in the Netherlands issued a landmark ruling — subsequently upheld on appeal — in a climate lawsuit brought by Urgenda and Dutch citizens against the national government. government, for instance, has yet to make it to trial eight years after it was first filed in 2015. In the U.S., The Juliana v.
Andrew Winston
OCTOBER 9, 2024
The Not So Good News On climate, companies are lagging behind the 2015 Paris agreement goals to hold global temperature rise to below 2°C (and preferably limit it to 1.5 °C). Again, stakeholder capitalism makes business sense. Many companies are now falling behind even their own targets.
AGreenLiving
NOVEMBER 15, 2019
Work began in 2015 and has since been annually tracked, with anthropogenic climate change threatening all the progress and gains made in public health for the past half-century. Health-related incidents flagged by The Lancet ’s report include increased risks of low birth weight and infant mortality for newborns.
Energy Innovation
NOVEMBER 1, 2024
Rising temperatures can shrink suitable habitats, drought can spur tree mortality, imperiling forest health, and ocean acidification, driven by elevated ocean uptake of CO 2 emissions, intensifies damage to coral reefs and other marine species around the globe.
Grist
APRIL 13, 2022
While reefs are suffering because of a variety of factors — overfishing, pollution, and ocean acidification among them — it’s widespread warming that is causing the most concern, as sea surface temperatures have slowly ticked up over the last 100 years. And like all coral species around the world, they are under threat.
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