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Pouring Gas on a Five Alarm Fire

Legal Planet

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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30 Years of U.S. Climate Policy

Legal Planet

EPA’s power to regulate greenhouse gases, established in litigation in 2007, now seems beyond question. remains a party to the UNFCCC , helped broker the Paris Agreement, and is till a party to that agreement today. should not enter into any climate agreement that fails to limit emissions from developing countries.

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Guest Commentary: The Meaning of “Fair Share” in Climate Ambition Litigation under the Paris Agreement

Law Columbia

Czech Republic , ordering the Czech government to create a more ambitious emissions reduction plan based on its obligations under the Paris Agreement ( Press Release of Czech Climate Litigation ). The court’s decision adds to a list of successful climate ambition cases that began with the Netherlands’ Urgenda decision in 2007.

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In the Race for Clean Energy, the United States is Both a Leader and a Laggard—Here’s How

Union of Concerned Scientists

The shift, combined with the huge shift from ultra-dirty goal to more-moderately dirty gas helped cut our power sector carbon dioxide emissions by 41 percent from a peak in 2007. degrees Fahrenheit) limits of the 2015 Paris Agreement. degrees Celsius (2.7-degrees

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Unpacking the liability argument against loss and damage funding

Law Columbia

The topic has steadily gained traction in international climate negotiations since then, with “loss and damage” first appearing in a negotiated text at COP13 in 2007 and later forming the “third pillar” of climate action in the Paris Agreement in 2015. and other developed nations. Although he claimed that the U.S.

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Oil Companies Plan to Take the Road Already Traveled

Union of Concerned Scientists

Heat-trapping emissions must be cut in half by 2030 to reach the Paris agreement goal of keeping global warming to 1.5 Shareholder advocates such as the Dutch nongovernmental organization Follow This have again filed proposals focused on the companies’ 2030 emissions reduction targets and their alignment with the Paris Agreement.

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Ask a Scientist: The US Has to Do More to Meet Its Carbon Emissions Reduction Goals

Union of Concerned Scientists

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. Their report, however, comes with a warning. That would be potentially disastrous.