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The Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, or Assembly Bill (AB) 32, is a California state law that fights global warming by establishing a comprehensive program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from all sources throughout the state. AB32 was co-authored by Assemblymember Fran Pavley (D-Agoura Hills) and Speaker of the California Assembly ...
As the most populous state in the United States, [1] California's climate policies influence both global climate change and federal climate policy. In line with the views of climate scientists, the state of California has progressively passed emission-reduction legislation. California has taken legislative steps in the hope of mitigating the ...
Litigation related to climate change and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions has become increasingly common in federal and state courts. Following adoption of the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32) and publication of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report (AR4), additional pressure was placed on California public agencies to evaluate potential ...
Some California tenant groups worried that passing laws to force apartment upgrades could lead to evictions followed by higher rents – as the state's eviction law allows landlords to remove ...
Without climate change, the drought was probably finished already in 2005. 42% of its severity is due to temperature rise as a result of climate change. 88% of the area was drought-stricken. The flow of the Colorado river supplying water to 7 states had "shrank to the lowest two-year average in more than a century of record keeping."
California law. Note: There are 29 California codes. The California Health and Safety Code is the codification of general statutory law covering the subject areas of health and safety in the state of California. [1] It is one of the 29 California Codes and was originally signed into law by the Governor of California on April 7, 1939.
Fridays for Future demonstration in Berlin in September 2021 with the slogan "fight for climate justice". Climate justice is a type of environmental justice [1] that focuses on the unequal impacts of climate change on marginalized or otherwise vulnerable populations. [2] Climate justice seeks to achieve an equitable distribution of both the ...
Climate change is altering the geographic range and seasonality of some insects that can carry diseases, for example Aedes aegypti, the mosquito that is the vector for dengue transmission. Global climate change has increased the occurrence of some infectious diseases. Infectious diseases whose transmission is impacted by climate change include, for example, vector-borne diseases like dengue ...