Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 17, 2023

C or less above pre-industrial levels is a cornerstone of the Paris Agreement—one that was hard won by an alliance of small island states and the least developed countries around the world who considered it to be a relatively sufficiently safe limit to future warming, given the existential threats they face. Why is 1.5°C C of warming?

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

In 2019, she announced a statewide energy plan that included eliminating barriers to rooftop solar. Climate Alliance by embracing the goals of the Paris Agreement, launching an office of sustainability, and setting a zero-carbon goal for 2050. Democratic Governor Laura Kelly won reelection.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 12, 2022

.” Lobbying and financially supporting US politicians who block climate action In the 2019-2020 U.S. election cycle, RELX, Elsevier’s parent company, contributed thousands of dollars to the campaigns of political candidates who obstruct action on climate change.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 7, 2019

On October 1, 2019, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals denied fossil fuel companies’ motion for a stay pending their appeal of the district court order remanding Baltimore’s climate change lawsuit against the companies to state court. Pursuant to a consent order, the remand order will not be entered until October 10, 2019.

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HumanNature

MARCH 11, 2024

Sounding Green” has not only become politically correct, but also a possible finance-generating mechanism. Climate is a global issue and when complex political systems around the world are brought together, solutions cannot be straightforward. ” Journal of banking & finance 98 (2019): 39-60. Zerbib, Olivier David.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Five years ago, the World Bank said it would end investments in oil and gas extraction by 2019. World Bank President David Malpass , appointed in 2019 by climate-denying President Trump, damaged that organization’s credibility even further this fall by refusing, in a public forum, to acknowledge that human activities cause climate change.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Cop stands for conference of the parties under the UNFCCC, and the annual meetings have swung between fractious and soporific, interspersed with moments of high drama and the occasional triumph ( the Paris agreement in 2015 ) and disaster (Copenhagen in 2009). Why do we need a Cop – don’t we already have the Paris agreement?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Many announcements and side initiatives The opening days of COP28 were filled with political announcements from the high-level segment and a myriad of side initiatives, including several from the United States. And that will take political will and pressure from the voting public. Who will pay?

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Two-thirds of the G20’s public finance for energy went to fossil fuels in 2019–2020. In total, 63% of the G20’s public finance for energy went to fossil fuels in 2019–2020. warming limit of the Paris Agreement within reach, the report notes. Oil drilling rigs off Invergordon, Scotland. Photo credit: Jiri Vondrous / Alamy.

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Energy and Climate Law

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

This blogpost shows what is at stake regarding climate and energy policy, focusing on the election programmes of the different political parties. First, an introduction to the political landscape of the Netherlands will be given. This blog consists of three parts. The outliers are PVV and FvD (and recent split-off JA21).

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Environmental Europe

JULY 1, 2020

It has agreed to address climate change under the Paris Agreement , and put forward increasingly ambitious policy targets for 2020, 2030 and 2050. insufficient implementation), it can issue recommendations and potentially take corrective action (Knodt, 2019). Knodt, Michèle (2019). West European Politics, doi: [link].

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Environmental Europe

JULY 29, 2020

For a long time, most people thought it to be a very technical exercise of low politics, but our new work demonstrates that this is no longer the case. Especially in the wake of the 2015 Paris Agreement, policy monitoring and review has become the core way in which the international community seeks to reach climate targets.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 23, 2023

In 2019, air pollution more broadly was responsible for about 6.7 Modeling has shown that if the United States is going to live up to its Paris Agreement targets aimed at limiting global warming to 1.5 A recent study found that more than 99 percent of the global population is exposed to unsafe levels of PM 2.5 What can be done?

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The documents also suggest that Egypt’s government has known about the wastewater problem since at least 2019, when British oil company BP sold its 50% stake in the plant to Dragon Oil, a United Arab Emirates firm. degrees Celsius as called out in the Paris Agreement, 90% of the world’s coral will be wiped out.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 18, 2022

R ), which was created in 2019 to bring this case. According to the applicants, the unlawful interference consisted of executive inaction in the area of climate protection, respectively by not taking mitigation and adaptation measures according to the obligations under the Paris Agreement. 2022 Prague Municipal Court Decision.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 1, 2022

Article 2 (2) of the Act further states that citizens, the State, local authorities, business operators, and other private organizations must cooperate to achieve net zero and the objectives laid down in Article 2 (1) (a) of the Paris Agreement.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

We have examined the effect of the geographical distribution of measurements in a study that was cited by New Scientist in 2019 , and we found that the uneven distribution of thermometer measurements can give a misleading impression that the perceived warming rate has been slower than the actual global warming.

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Law Columbia

MAY 10, 2021

In adopting the temperature targets of the Paris Agreement the German legislature exercised its mandate and prerogative. These rights are not violated, in view of the legislature’s wide margin of discretion; the same goes for adopting the targets of the Paris Agreement. threshold must not be passed. However, adopting a 1.5C

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Law Columbia

APRIL 8, 2022

Second, it could influence decisions by administrative and judicial bodies, for example with regard to the approval of specific projects, such as oil and gas infrastructure and undertakings not in line with the Paris Agreement (see Section 3 below). 179/2019 ).

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ESA

APRIL 11, 2022

Despite the panel’s regular reports about the consequences of burning fossil fuels, between 1990 and 2019 global emissions rose 54 percent and they are still rising. Although there’s a broad consensus on the science of climate change, that’s not the case with politics. Here are five key messages from the final report. Halting at 1.5

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Royal Dutch Shell plc to reduce its emissions by 45% by 2030, relative to 2019, across all activities, including its subsidiaries and both its own emissions and end-use emissions (Scope 1, 2 and 3). Perhaps the most significant decision in climate litigation in 2021 came from the Netherlands. In Greenpeace v.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 19, 2023

Pakistan’s Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) ­– its climate pledge under the Paris Agreement – targets 60% renewable energy generation by 2030, including hydropower. Bao Zhong, political counsellor at the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in Islamabad, told me that the Chinese government stands by the pledge.

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Manning Law

APRIL 4, 2021

Countries around the world committed to drastically reduce their greenhouse gas emissions under the 2015 Paris Agreement. Specifically, the law required provinces and territories to implement carbon gas pricing systems by January 1, 2019 or adopt one imposed by the federal government. Climate Change Is Real.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 10, 2019

There can be no political freedom without there also being economic freedom. United Nations General Debate – New York, September 24, 2019. On June 28, 2019, President Bolsonaro cooperated with the European Union (“EU”) and other MERCOSUR nations on the EU-Mercosur trade agreement. And vice-versa.

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Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 30, 2019

January 30, 2019. Also elephants, giraffes, rhinos (of the non-political variety), Cape buffalo, baboons, uninvited monkeys at lunch, hippos, wildebeests, hyenas, warthogs and an unexpected (to me) penguin colony. Today: The 2019 Regular Session of the North Carolina General Assembly convenes.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 12, 2021

While the resolution is not legally binding, it represents a significant political statement that could shape global standards. After the adoption of the Paris Agreement, which included a notable recognition of the human rights dimensions of climate change, courts have seen a rights turn in climate litigation. Sacchi et al.

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Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2021

BLM prepared the supplemental EA in response to the court’s decision in March 2019 that identified shortcomings in BLM’s original climate change analysis for the leases. 37-2019-00053964-CU-TT-CTL (Cal. 37-2019-00053679-CU-TT-CTL (Cal. Morena United v. City of San Diego , No. 9, 2021); Friends of Rose Creek v. 21-cv-971 (D.D.C.,

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

In May 2019, a group of eight Torres Strait Islanders and six of their children submitted a complaint against the Australian government to the UNHRC. However, the Committee found that it was appropriate to consider violations of the Paris Agreement and other international treaties under the ICCPR.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

There are even indications that near-term cuts might be easier to achieve for methane than for CO 2 , for a mix of technical, economic, and political reasons. For example, methane stayed roughly flat for about a decade from the late 1990s, but has increased rapidly since then – by nearly 16 ppb in 2020 over 2019. Climate impact.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The majority said it “reluctantly” concluded that “the plaintiffs’ case must be made to the political branches or to the electorate at large” and “[t]hat the other branches may have abdicated their responsibility to remediate the problem does not confer on Article III courts, no matter how well-intentioned, the ability to step into their shoes.”

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Law Columbia

JUNE 8, 2021

BLM issued the EA and FONSI in response to the court’s 2019 decision finding that the lifting of the moratorium was a “major federal action” requiring review under NEPA. In the lawsuit challenging President Trump’s 2019 issuance of a presidential permit for the U.S.-Canada Indigenous Environmental Network v. Trump , No. May 28, 2021).

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

A day after the court’s decision, BLM published a proposed rule to temporarily suspend or delay certain requirements until January 17, 2019. California v. Bureau of Land Management , Nos. 17-cv-03804-EDL, 17-cv-3885-EDL (N.D. Republican National Committee , No. 3:17 -cv-00123 (W.D.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Moreover, science cannot answer questions that are at heart economic or political, such as whether the Kyoto Protocol is worthwhile. [13]. It is for all the above reasons that our crystal ball predicts that by 2019 Bill McKibben will change the name of his climate organization from 350.Org No April in Paris.

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