Legal Planet

MAY 13, 2024

We know that Trump would exit the Paris Agreement (again). That would leave federal climate regulation in the same place it was in 2007. The short term damage would be bad enough. He would also roll back all of Biden’s climate regulations. We know he would stop enforcing environmental requirements.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Under the 2015 Paris Agreement, the United States voluntarily pledged to reduce its global warming emissions at least 50 percent below their 2005 levels by the end of this decade and reach net-zero emissions no later than 2050. It also will save US consumers money because they will spend less on fossil fuels.

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Carbon Emissions Fossil Fuels Clean Energy 2030 296

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2023

The key word here is “ intensity :” Fossil fuel companies often focus on emissions intensity, meaning emissions per barrel of oil, rather than absolute emissions, which is a set number measured in metric tons. Heat-trapping emissions must be cut in half by 2030 to reach the Paris agreement goal of keeping global warming to 1.5

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Fossil Fuels Paris Agreement 2030 Greenhouse 219

Enviromental Defense

MARCH 4, 2024

For instance, mortgages are connected to homes, while fossil fuel finance is tied to infrastructure like pipelines, oil wells, and the reserves still in the ground. The 2007-8 financial crisis was caused by a housing bubble worth an estimated $250-500 billion. They’re expected to generate a return over the coming decades.

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Climate Change Fossil Fuels Paris Agreement 2023 83

HumanNature

MARCH 11, 2024

As per the World Investment Report 2023, much of the growth in international investment in renewable energy, which has nearly tripled since the adoption of the Paris Agreement in 2015, was concentrated in developed countries. But the problem is that as of today, such instruments or institutions hardly exist.

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Renewable Energy Paris Agreement 2015 2020 105

Real Climate

AUGUST 13, 2021

This is a pretty clear illustration of how sea level starts to rise slowly; but in the long run, sea-level rise caused by fossil-fuel burning and deforestation in our generation could literally go off the chart and inundate many coastal cities and wipe entire island nations off the map. But first things first.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The first explicit use of the term L&D was in the 2007 Bali Action Plan , in a section on enhanced action for adaptation. In the 2015 Paris Agreement , Article 8 acknowledged the importance of L&D and the accompanying decision 1/CP.21

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