A rare unanimous ruling from the International Court of Justice creates a pathway to hold all governments, even the climate-denying ones, legally liable for climate risk.
Rishika Pardikar
Rishika Pardikar is an Indian environment reporter tracking science, law and policy. Her areas of focus are climate change, tribal rights issues and biodiversity conservation. Her work - spanning investigations, analysis and quick news - has appeared in The Lever/ Jacobin, Foreign Policy, Dialogue Earth, science magazines like Nature and AGU's Eos, Indian newspapers and magazines like The Hindu, Frontline, Article-14 and Deccan Herald. She lives in Bengaluru.
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In India’s Coal Belt, a Window into the Challenges Facing Energy Transition
India’s reliance on coal is tied to a complex set of economic, social, and energy security factors; any successful energy transition plan will have to address all of them.
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Biden May Have Quietly Thrown a Wrench in Trump’s Plan to ‘Drill, Baby, Drill’
Donald Trump wants his Energy Department to quickly approve new liquified natural gas export projects. A late Biden administration study could slow things down.
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COP29 Kicks Off with a “Bad Process and Worse Outcome” on Carbon Market Rules
The COP29 presidency forced through rules for carbon markets on the first day of the conference, ignoring concerns and setting what some negotiators called a “horrible precedent” for future negotiations.
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New Research: Forget Individual Climate Targets, We Need Collective Goals
Two new pieces of research suggest that we need to reconsider the terminology around “1.5°C-aligned” and “net-zero” pledges.
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False Solutions and Climate Delay
This series is supported in part by the Pulitzer Center, with several pieces co-published with media partners, including The Guardian, Vox, and Rolling Stone. Reporting on climate disinformation has increased exponentially over the past decade. In 2015, reporters at Inside Climate News, The Los Angeles Times, and Columbia Journalism School published the stories collectively referred […]
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The Missing Ambition at COP28
The much-celebrated COP28 pledge to transition away from fossil fuels magically leaves oil and gas untouched.
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Climate Cases
In the U.S., the response to climate litigation is often “who cares when this Supreme Court is ultimately going to knock it back anyway?” And the answer is simple: discovery. Discovery is a term that describes the fact-finding phase of civil litigation. During the discovery phase, lawyers can access primary documents, depose current and former […]
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International Climate Negotiations
Every few years the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) releases an assessment, which consists of several reports prepared by three working groups. Working Group I focuses on the scientific evidence for climate change; Working Group II on the impacts, adaptation and vulnerabilities; and Working Group III on mitigation, what we can do about it […]
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The Real Free Speech Threat
Around the world, climate and other environmental protestors are being harassed, attacked, and arrested at an increasing rate. Laws are being passed that levy life-altering prison sentences and fines on protestors arrested near anything deemed “critical infrastructure,” which is defined so broadly it’s hard to find a public space that wouldn’t be near it anymore. […]