Channeling climate worry into solutions
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At West Coast, we’ve been spending some time digesting the International Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) latest report on climate change impacts, adaptation, and vulnerabilities. Unsurprisingly, it isn’t good news.
The report provides yet another urgent reminder that governments and industries need to do so much more to ramp up progress in a time of converging crises, but it’s also a good reminder that we do have reasons to be hopeful. We have the tools we need to confront and beat the climate emergency. The main challenge is implementing them at the speed and scale necessary while we still have a window of opportunity.
For those looking for legal tools to force more and faster climate action from industry and governments, the new IPCC report will be powerful evidence for future climate lawsuits to advance the cause of a healthy and livable planet. It makes clear connections between climate change and resulting damages, and validates climate litigation as a tool to seek compensation for losses.We’ve seen powerful corporations held accountable for the harm caused by their products before, like Big Tobacco. We can do the same for Big Oil. Learn more in this new blog by Staff Lawyer Andrew Gage. Ocean-related lessons from the IPCC
It's difficult to absorb the IPCC's troubling findings and what it means for ocean health without feeling overwhelmed, so Staff Lawyer Erin Gray breaks it down with a new two-part blog series.Check out Part 1 for a quick, accessible guide to ocean climate impacts from the report. And remember that solutions exist – the challenge is generating the political will to see them implemented. In Part 2, we share how West Coast is catalyzing solutions at the ocean-climate nexus. TMX is taking its toll on Canadian taxpayers – and losing federal support
The Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project (TMX) was never a good idea. And now, with the new price tag of over $21 billion (