ABA Encourages Climate Change Legislation, Adaptation and Mitigating Action

At the 2019 American Bar Association (ABA) Annual Meeting in August, the ABA’s policy-making body adopted a resolution urging federal, state, local, territorial and tribal governments to take action to address climate change – including a reduction of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions to “net zero or below as soon as possible, consistent with the latest peer-reviewed science.” The climate change resolution (Resolution 111) includes as a goal “holding the increase in the global average temperature to the lowest possible increase above pre-industrial levels[.]”