COURSE: Embodied Carbon, Walkable Cities, and the Climate Lawsuits That Could Change Everything

About this episode

This episode discusses the intersection of embodied carbon, walkable cities, and the legal frameworks surrounding climate risk and lawsuits.

Welcome to the Gābl Media Continuing Education podcast feed! Each podcast is approved for continuing education credits. Embodied Carbon, Walkable Cities, and the Climate Lawsuits That Could Change Everything AIA CES program ID: GMGG.0010 Approved LUs: 1.0 LU|HSW Prerequisites: None Program level: Entry Advance learner preparation: None Who gets to decide whether climate risk becomes a legal reality with consequences, or stays a permanent argument that never has to change anything? This course session follows the power path that sits upstream of climate outcomes: the donor networks, legal strategy shops, and political operators shaping courts, agencies, and the public story about climate risk. You see how Leonard Leo’s dark-money infrastructure functions as an influence pipeline for judicial nominations and coordinated legal pressure, then how that kind of machine shows up in real stakes like the Honolulu climate liability case and the organized efforts by Republican attorneys general and allied groups to block similar lawsuits nationwide. You then zoom into Project 2025 and the Heritage agenda as a practical blueprint for deregulating energy, shrinking the EPA, and stripping…

People in this episode

Host: Gābl Media

Topics covered

• embodied carbon
• walkable cities
• climate lawsuits
• climate risk
• legal strategy
• energy deregulation

Keywords

• climate change
• legal consequences
• donor networks
• judicial nominations
• emissions sectors
• climate liability

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Heritage, EPA

Places: Honolulu

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