The Law Students for Climate Accountability (LSCA) have released an updated Law Firm Climate Change Scorecard for 2021. Switzer Fellow Camila Bustos is co-founder of LSCA, and Switzer Fellow AJ Hudson is on the 2021-2022 LSCA Board.
Michael Wironen co-authored an Info Note on CGIAR exploring the implications of the climate metric Global Warming Potential (GWP) for methane mitigation in agriculture. Key takeaways include:
Evidence of plant disease range expansions due to climate change has remained elusive. Switzer Fellow Joan Dudney combined causal inference with stable isotope analysis in a new study that shows climate change and drought contributed to a nonlinear disease range shift into higher elevations.
Rob Moir wrote an op-ed for The Environmental Magazine describing The Ocean Based Climate Solutions Act's efforts to address the ravages of climate change.
Carina Bracer has been promoted to Manager, United States and Canada for Verra. Carina analyzes opportunities for the full range of Verra standards in evolving and emerging voluntary and compliance carbon markets and mechanisms.
Genie Bey has taken a new position as RISA program specialist in the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Climate Program Office. NOAA’s Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments (RISA) program supports research teams that help expand and build the nation's capacity to prepare for and adapt to climate variability and change.
“Understanding biological responses to climate change can help us find our place within it,” Hanson writes. “Simply put, if bush crickets, bumblebees, and butterflies can learn to modify their behaviors, then it stands to reason that we can too."
Kimberley Miner has accepted a role as Systems Scientist with the new Earth Systems Observatory at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. NASA is working with countries around the world to pioneer the Earth System Observatory-- a virtual constellation able to sense the hydrology, land-surface change, atmosphere and so much more-- at finer scales than we have ever seen before. Learn more about the mission
Camila Bustos, 2020 Switzer Fellow, was interviewed in the A Matter of Degrees podcast on how law firms, consultants and PR agencies enable dirty energy.
