A couple of days ago there was a feisty exchange on Fox News between host Tucker Carlson and Bill Nye (“the Science Guy”). Carlson challenged Nye to establish that climatic changes are linked...
https://teachingclimatelaw.org/tackling-the-issue-of-climate-attribution-new-study/
While there are numerous analyses indicating that current National Determined Contributions (NDCs) made the Parties to the Paris Agreement do not put the world on track to meet the treaty’s obj...
https://teachingclimatelaw.org/tracking-current-and-future-progress-in-fulfilling-paris/
Recent studies have projected temperature increases of 2.7-3.5C by 2100 associated with the current Intended Nationally Determined Contributions of the parties to the United Nations Framework Co...
https://teachingclimatelaw.org/global-temperatures-over-the-next-few-thousand-years/
I administer the Climate Law Teaching Resources site for the IUCN’s Academy of Environmental Law: http://www.iucnael.org/en/online-resources/climate-law-teaching-resources. The site includes sy...
https://teachingclimatelaw.org/call-for-resources-teaching-climate-law/
In a new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change, Clark, et al. suggest that our policy orientation in terms of mitigation and adaptation responses to climate change should be expan...
https://teachingclimatelaw.org/climate-change-the-long-term-view/
The U.S. National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration publishes an Annual Greenhouse Gas Index (AGGI), “a measure of the warming influence of long-lived trace gases and how that influence is ...
https://teachingclimatelaw.org/noaa-annual-greenhouse-gas-index/
Most of the scenarios in the IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report that set out pathways to avoid temperature increases above 2C rely on large-scale use of so-called “negative emissions technolog...
https://teachingclimatelaw.org/biofuels-and-food-produciton/
I have recently published an online commentary on Article 8 of the Paris Agreement on The Conversation site, which addresses the issue of “loss and damage.” I think that loss and damage is an...
https://teachingclimatelaw.org/addressing-loss-and-damage-under-the-paris-agreement/
This site’s Compendium on the Paris Agreement, which seeks to bring together key online resources on the agreement, has been expanded recently to more than 130 links. The Compendium is availab...
https://teachingclimatelaw.org/updated-compendium-on-the-paris-agreement/
In a new article (subscription only, but link here will take you to a pre-edited version on Professor Anderson’s home page) published in the journal Nature Geoscience, Kevin Anderson of Tyndall...
https://teachingclimatelaw.org/tough-love-on-the-path-to-2c/