Out now: our new study shows that climate change caused nearly 1,700 heat-related deaths in Zürich over 50 years. We assessed the effects of changing vulnerability to heat, heat-mortality within and outside of heatwaves, and the contribution of individual companies' emissions to heat deaths.
Thom Wetzer
@thomwetzer.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Law and Finance @ Oxford Founding Director of the Oxford Sustainable Law Programme
The new Climate Policy Monitor offers an open-access mapping and expert assessment of #NetZero regulations. @thomwetzer.bsky.social https://f.mtr.cool/algrrmfmog @ox.ac.uk @blavatnikschool.bsky.social
Climate Policy Monitor suggests growth of worldwide climate laws
The explosion of worldwide climate-related policies gives resilience to the climate fight even in the face of the USA’s dramatic change in policies under the Trump administration, findings from
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🚨 Out now in @climate-policy.bsky.social: New research with @thomwetzer.bsky.social @rubenpruetz.bsky.social @joerirogelj.bsky.social Lavanya Rajamani, Marianne Wood and Ewan White: States are depending heavily on CO2 removal to meet climate targets, risking the Paris Agreement goal.
🔓 Inadequate #climate ambition creates substantial long-term dependence on CO2 removal, which risks more severe #climatechange impacts & jeopardising Paris Agreement targets, find @rupertstuartsmith.bsky.social @joerirogelj.bsky.social @thomwetzer.bsky.social @rubenpruetz.bsky.social et al. ⬇️
in KlimaSeniorinnen v Switzerland to justify its finding that Switzerland needed to reduce emissions: "Although the applicants could agree that adaptation was also crucial, it was not an answer to what Switzerland should have done to mitigate climate change." hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng#_ftnref178