Climate Change and the Elections: Five Takeaways
“Governments must take heed of latest IPCC assessment”
New climate resilient water project will ensure reliable water supplies for 450,000 people in Comoros
"‘Children will have water to drink, farmers can grow successful crops and feed their families, and we can adapt our economy and our society to the catastrophic risks brought on by climate change’ says Minister Abdou on GCF board approval for groundbreaking UNDP-supported project"
What Local Climate Actions Would Have the Greatest Impact
"In light of even more dire news about our warming planet, leading thinkers tell us the one thing cities and states could do to cut emissions significantly—and fast."
IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 °C
The Netherlands vs. Urgenda
The well anticipated judgment of the Hague Court of Appeal in the case of The Netherlands vs. Urgenda has given right to Urgenda. The Netherlands must, based on its duty of care, ensure that national greenhouse gas emissions are reduced by at least 25% by 2020. This is a remarkable development. Bravo!
https://uitspraken.rechtspraak.nl/inziendocument?id=ECLI:NL:GHDHA:2018:2610
Benjamin et al, ‘An ‘Islands’ COP’? Loss and damage at COP23’
forthcoming in Review of European, Comparative and International Environmental Law
J Karstensen, GP Peters and RM Andrew, ‘Trends of the EU’s territorial and consumption-based emissions from 1990 to 2016’
Climatic Change (forthcoming)