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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 Countries like China and India clearly need to do more.

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The Fossil Fuel Industry Continues Producing Heat-Trapping Emissions that Drive Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

As I show below, their cumulative emissions have continued to rise over the decades even as international efforts to confront climate change have been enacted through the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Agreement. I’ve marked these important years with dotted lines in Figure 2.

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30 Major Climate Initiatives Under Biden

Legal Planet

The earliest action covered is Biden’s rejoining the Paris Agreement; the most recent is a burst of final actions taken around Earth Day 2024. begins the process of rejoining the Paris Agreement on Biden’s first day in office. officially became a party to the agreement again on February 19, 2021. April 22, 2021.

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COP28 Global Methane Pledge Efforts Still Not Enough

Union of Concerned Scientists

The pledge is a voluntary agreement to reduce global methane emissions by 30 percent below 2020 levels by 2030; however, methane levels keep going up and we are woefully off track for meeting this goal. Compared to carbon dioxide (CO2), methane doesn’t linger for long in the atmosphere after being emitted.

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What EXACTLY Did the UN Conference Decide?

Legal Planet

Coal is supposed to be “phased down” except where the resulting carbon dioxide is removed and securely stored (which may or may not actually be feasible). In a fourth significant subsection, section 28 highlights the role of greenhouse gases other than carbon dioxide. The “phase down” of coal.

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Developing Model Federal Legislation to Advance Safe and Responsible Ocean Carbon Dioxide Removal Research in the United States

Law Columbia

The Sabin Center today published model federal legislation to advance safe and responsible ocean carbon dioxide removal (CDR) research in U.S. Background on Ocean CDR In the Paris Agreement , 193 countries, including the U.S., has committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 50 to 52 percent by 2030.

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Memo to JPMorgan Chase Shareholders: Stop Banking on Climate Chaos

Union of Concerned Scientists

Since the adoption of the Paris agreement, JP Morgan Chase is at the top of the list of fossil fuel bankers, financing a staggering $434 billion from 2016 through 2022. The scientists’ letter is addressed to JPMorgan Chase because of its role as the largest financer of fossil fuel companies since the adoption of the Paris agreement.