2010 2016 Carbon Emissions Greenhouse 
Legal Planet
NOVEMBER 16, 2023
As this century began, things looked optimistic, with both presidential candidates favoring reductions in carbon emissions. Waiting for Congress: 2000-2010. California followed up the Pavley Act with AB32, which attacked carbon emissions more broadly and established a cap-and-trade scheme.
Legal Planet
FEBRUARY 21, 2024
California established first renewable portfolio standard (20% from renewables by 2010). Required the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to set standards for greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) new vehicles. Required state to reduce emissions to 1990 levels by 2020 and gave broad authority to CARB to implement the standard.
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Circle of Blue
MARCH 1, 2022
Temperatures on this day in July 2016 exceeded 110 degrees Fahrenheit. Unless people adapt to rapid environmental change and greenhouse gas emissions are slowed, the risks to biodiversity, water security, food production, infrastructure stability, and health are much higher toward the end of the century. We’re Making Them Worse.
Law Columbia
NOVEMBER 1, 2016
24, 2016); Alaska Oil & Gas Association v. The court cited Healey’s participation in the AGs United for Clean Power Press Conference in March 2016 and her attendance at a pre-press conference closed-door meeting with a climate change activist and a lawyer with a “well-known global warming litigation practice.” 451962/2016 (N.Y.
Greenbuilding Law
OCTOBER 30, 2022
There is no single widely accepted definition of the social cost of carbon, but most would accept that it is the present value of the future damages from one additional unit of carbon emissions in a particular year. In 2016 the cost was set by the Obama Administration at $36 per ton. Environmental Protection Agency.”.
A Greener Life
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
“The use of SAF is expected to contribute around 65% of the reduction in emissions needed by aviation to reach net-zero in 2050,” says Albert Tjoeng, head of corporate communications for the IATA, which defines a SAF as a non-fossil fuel that has the potential to generate lower carbon emissions than conventional kerosene in its life cycle.
HumanNature
OCTOBER 8, 2021
In recent history, we have witnessed LUC exacerbating climate change due to disturbed soils, development of greenhouse gas (GHG) producing land uses, and more 4. Land Cover is from the 2016 National Land Cover Database26. Carbon emissions from land use and land-cover change. Ecological Economics 69 , 2060–2068 (2010).
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