Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Royal Dutch Shell: Overview of Controversial Business Practices in 2009 (SOMO, May7 2010). Riding the Dragon: Royal Dutch Shell and the Fossil Fire by Jack Doyle (2002). Risky Business: The New Shell by WWF-UK (2005).

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Environmental and Urban Economics

JULY 11, 2021

Another quote from JC; "But reducing carbon is thus, logically, just one item on the list of answers to "What can we do to raise GDP in 2100?," Asked that way, you can see that "lower carbon emissions" is about #100 on the list, even admitting the 5-10% of GDP thumb-on-the-scale estimates. My Thoughts; 1.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Royal Dutch Shell: Overview of Controversial Business Practices in 2009 (SOMO, May7 2010). Riding the Dragon: Royal Dutch Shell and the Fossil Fire by Jack Doyle (2002). Risky Business: The New Shell by WWF-UK (2005).

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Royal Dutch Shell: Overview of Controversial Business Practices in 2009 (SOMO, May7 2010). Riding the Dragon: Royal Dutch Shell and the Fossil Fire by Jack Doyle (2002). Risky Business: The New Shell by WWF-UK (2005).

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 13, 2023

In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Royal Dutch Shell: Overview of Controversial Business Practices in 2009 (SOMO, May7 2010). Riding the Dragon: Royal Dutch Shell and the Fossil Fire by Jack Doyle (2002). Risky Business: The New Shell by WWF-UK (2005).

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 18, 2022

The potential for trees to capture carbon emissions through photosynthesis seems crucial to the recent upsurge. million tonnes of CO2 between 2014 and 2015. In 2007 and 2010 , for example, Costa Rica carried out its first debt-for-nature swaps with the United States.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The NPCC establishes a binding commitment to reduce GHG emissions between 36.1% by 2020 against a 2010 baseline. While Brazil achieved its emission reduction goal from the NPCC, the reduction targets of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest were not fulfilled. o C global warming scenario.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 16, 2023

percent of total emissions. found that the companies—down to 88 due to mergers—were responsible for about 55 percent of ocean acidification between 1880 and 2015. They also calculated that the companies’ emissions have been responsible for 37 percent of the burned forest area in the region since 1986. Licker et al.

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HumanNature

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Denver Colorado (2015). Carbon emissions from land use and land-cover change. Ecological Economics 69 , 2060–2068 (2010). Environmental Science & Policy 13 , 785–792 (2010). The economics of soil C sequestration and agricultural emissions abatement. SOIL 1 , 331–339 (2015). Colorado’s water plan.

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Physics World

APRIL 22, 2021

C above the 1981–2010 reference period, almost two degrees higher than the previous record. He called on governments to offer more ambitious emissions targets – referred to as nationally determined contributions – ahead of the UN climate summit in Glasgow in November (COP 26).

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

In its papers supporting the order to show cause, the attorney general said that PwC had served as Exxon’s independent auditor since before 2010 (the time period covered by the subpoena), a role in which PwC examined whether Exxon’s financial statement disclosures were supported by evidence. Circuit Court of Appeals.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

In my retelling of the show, I quickly pointed out that the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change had by then concluded that “most” of the increase in average global temperatures since 1950 was “very likely” due to the increase in human-made carbon emissions. Renewables,” I added, “have gotten peanuts in comparison.”

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Environmental Science

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Many are not aware that deserts are a net carbon sink, providing some relief from the increase in greenhouse gases. This will be problematic while carbon emissions continue to increase, and world governments will need to do something about it in the future. The discovery was made when researching bacteria in the desert.

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Environmental Progress

APRIL 20, 2021

49 (2015): 15060-15065; DOI:10.1073/pnas.1510028112 Chicago: Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago, 2019); “Renewable Portfolio Standards Reduce Carbon Emissions—But, at a High Cost,” Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago, April 22, 2019, [link] [20] National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

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Environmental Progress

MARCH 11, 2021

19] France spends just over half as much per kilowatt-hour for electricity that produces one-tenth of the carbon emissions of German electricity. [20] could reduce carbon emissions 42 percent and generate 70 percent of its electricity from carbon-free sources by 2030. 2015, 112 (49) 15060-15065; DOI:10.1073/pnas.1510028112.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

emissions in the RGGI region would have been approximately 24 percent higher in 2015 but for the program, which took effect in 2009. [5]. At the same time, it is estimated that through 2015, RGGI generated approximately $2.9 and that the investment of RGGI allowance auction proceeds in 2015 alone will return $2.31

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

EPA of a 2015 rule barring replacement of ozone-depleting substances with hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which are powerful greenhouse gases. Circuit vacated the 2015 rule to the extent that it prohibited continued use of HFCs by companies that previously switched to HFCs from an ozone-depleting substance. In Mexichem , the D.C.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 31, 2022

The committee followed up that hearing —during which the executives disingenuously denied funding such a campaign—with another hearing on February 8 focusing on the oil companies’ inadequate plans to cut their carbon emissions. On the rare occasion when reporters broach the topic, he responds with … disinformation.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

With respect to the analysis of climate change impacts, the appellate court said the City of Brea had appropriately selected a significance threshold for project greenhouse gas emissions that was higher than one used for a similar residential project in 2010. Attorney General of New York , No. __ (N.Y. million rate increase.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

In 2015, when he took office as AG after stints in the Texas Legislature, he sued the Environmental Protection Agency for strengthening a standard for ground-level ozone, better known as smog. EPA decision , upheld the EPA’s authority to regulate such emissions under the Clean Air Act but significantly constrained its ability to do so.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

On September 15, 2015, Teitiota filed a communication with the UN Human Rights Committee, alleging that New Zealand had violated his right to life under the International Covenant on Social and Political Rights. The Ninth Circuit found, however, that the plaintiffs had not established the redressability requirement for standing.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Check Out C-SAW -- Trout Unlimited, Backcountry Hunters & Anglers New R.I.S.E Wolf, AG Shapiro To Support A Total Ban On Road Dumping Of Oil & Gas Drilling Wastewater; 240.4

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ESA

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The pact recognizes that world’s countries would need to reduce global carbon emissions by 45% from 2010 levels by 2030 levels to limit warming to 1.5 Diplomats representing nearly 200 counties agreed to the Glasgow Climate Pact at the end of the United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26). degrees Celsius.

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ESA

JUNE 14, 2021

In 2019, the Trump administration rolled back standards put in place under the Obama administration following the 2010 BP oil catastrophe that killed 11 people and spewed oil for five months. By October, Interior says it will complete its revocation of a controversial late Trump-era rule weakening protections for migratory birds.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2016

in domestic or international efforts to reduce carbon emissions. Instead Mr. Ebell seems perfectly suited to eviscerate the efforts of the Obama Administration to reduce carbon emissions as part of the international cooperation to spare the globe from looming catastrophe. on the climate front. That’s a big mistake.

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