UN court rules countries must treat climate change
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The United Nations' highest court on Wednesday told wealthy countries they must comply with their international commitments to curb pollution or risk having to pay compensation to nations hard hit by climate change.
The paramount chief of a volcanic island in Vanuatu said Thursday he was "very impressed" by a global court's declaration that countries must tackle climate change.Vanuatu spearheaded the legal case at the International Court of Justice in The Hague,
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Joellen Russell, an oceanographer at the University of Arizona, says her identities as climate scientist and concerned mother merged long before she helped start Science Moms. “We feel like we have an obligation to both, get prepared, get on it, reduce our emissions, and help our people weather this.”
According to two people familiar with the draft, it would eliminate the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse-gas emissions threaten human life by dangerously warming the planet.
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United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says money, not just science, makes the case for curbing climate change.