Enviromental Defense

APRIL 25, 2024

Canada promised to cut its greenhouse gas emissions after the 2016 Paris Agreement. It was part of the global agreement where 195 countries all agreed to reduce their emissions, and Canada has set this promise into law. The federal government has set targets and policies for most sectors in the economy….except

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 18, 2023

Canadian banks and pension funds rank in the bottom third globally on financing clean energy, yet are among the world’s largest investors in fossil fuels. Canada finally has an all-star team ready to tackle the biggest gap in Canada’s climate plans: regulations that align Canada’s financial system with climate action. degrees.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 21, 2022

Photo credit: Karwai Tang / UK Government via Flickr. For the first time ever in the 27-year history of UN climate talks, at COP26 fossil fuels were mentioned in the final agreement. But we have moved the goalposts significantly from the Paris Agreement in 2015 when we were then on course for 3.5 By Anders Lorenzen.

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Clean Energy Law

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The relevant CFPP owner has a Paris Agreement-aligned transition plan. These credits are generated by reducing emissions when a CFPP is retired early and replaced with clean energy. beyond those that have already been signed by December 2023). These credits must meet global standards such as the Core Carbon Principles.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 22, 2024

We can become a leader in clean energy supply and manufacture the products the world needs to live more sustainably. As we explain below, it brings impacted parties to the table, proposes ways to address their needs, and commits the government to regularly updating its plans as the reality on the ground evolves. It’s a mouthful!

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 17, 2021

The demand statement focuses on upholding Indigenous rights and respecting Indigenous knowledge, bold and ambitious climate action (including phasing out fossil fuels and guaranteeing a just transition to a sustainable clean energy economy), protecting and restoring nature and establishing environmental rights in Canada.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 7, 2021

In just over a month, the most important climate talks since the Paris Agreement was signed will decide the fate of global climate action. Five years down the line, countries were scheduled to return to the forum and finalise a rulebook on how to implement the Paris Agreement. By Lou Del Bello. On the agenda at COP26.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 30, 2022

Quite the opposite: today’s high oil and gas prices are a fresh reinforcement, if we needed that, for why a rapid transition to clean energy is imperative. A rapid clean energy transition is (still) the best path forward. Multiple crises colliding with climate change.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 7, 2023

C carbon budget set forth in the 2015 Paris Agreement, countries must reduce CO2 emissions in the entire [existing] built environment by 50-65% by 2030 and reach zero carbon by 2040. Carbon Emissions Emissions goals were set in response to urgent developments in climate science indicating that for the world to meet the 1.5°C

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 24, 2023

With renewable energy, like solar and wind, becoming cheaper and easier to scale up, there has never been a better moment for governments to transition away from the fossil fuel industry and its destructive impacts on the environment, the climate and communities. What we need to see in the Energy Futures report?

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Washington Nature

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

While the bipartisan infrastructure bill’s passage late last week was a major step forward, the US must do more to meet its commitments under the Paris Agreement and demonstrate leadership in the face of the climate and biodiversity crises. ” — Kameran Onley, Director of TNC's North America Policy and Government Relations.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Recent polling demonstrates that the public wants action on sustainable finance — financial activities that take into account social, environmental, and governance factors. Canada’s financial institutions are among the largest funders of fossil fuels in the world, and continue to underinvest in clean energy.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 21, 2021

In a remarkable new report, the International Energy Agency (IEA) finds that in order to limit warming to 1.5 The IEA is the world’s foremost authority on energy, relied upon by governments and the private sector around the world. So what do we need governments to do? This is a huge deal. Starting now.

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HumanNature

MARCH 11, 2024

Student in the Department of Economics at Colorado State University As the urgent need to take tough action towards climate mitigation and sustainability gathers pressure, for most major power-holders today, including the markets, institutions, government agencies, media and countries, environmentalism has perhaps become the biggest fashion fad.

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Brag

JUNE 10, 2021

This effort is part of Mission Innovation , “a global initiative to catalyze action and investment in research, development and demonstration to make clean energy affordable, attractive and accessible to all this decade.”

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 24, 2022

We need to rapidly transition financial support away from fossil fuels and towards the clean energy transition” said Alan Andrews, Ecojustice climate program director. Canada’s needs checks and balances to ensure that all investments contribute to a green future, this is critical to the security of Canada’s economy.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Contrary to climate science and the Paris Agreement, all eight assessed companies plan to increase fossil fuel production. Canada’s federal government must step in to manage the decline in fossil fuel production. degrees Celsius (ºC), according to a new report launched today at the UN Climate Change Conference. . “The

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Law Columbia

APRIL 17, 2024

The recommendations include possible changes to Cuban domestic policies to, among other things, encourage greater public and private investment in the country’s energy transition. policy also has a significant impact on Cuba’s energy sector. The report also explores how a bilateral dialogue between the U.S.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

This has become a familiar sight in recent days, with many government ministers arriving to take part in high level discussions. In the Paris Agreement , reached last year at COP21, “parties recognize[d] the importance of support for and international cooperation on adaptation.” That seems unlikely, however.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

RBC has contributed over $340B (CAD) in fossil fuel financing since the Paris Climate Agreement was signed in 2016, making it one of the world’s largest funders of the companies and industries driving climate change. “If They all have asked the Federal Government to kill the deal.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

By Rejimon Kuttappan Along with a major expansion of renewable energy, India is also pushing for big increases in its coal production, casting doubt on its climate commitments. On the same day at COP28, the Indian government submitted its third “National Communication” to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 1, 2021

On October 26, 2021, Observatório do Clima (OC), a network of 71 civil society organizations, filed a class action at the federal court of Amazonas against the Environmental Ministry and Brazilian government ( Laboratório do Observatório do Clima v. Omissions from the Brazilian government on climate policy. o C global warming scenario.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

In response to the report, the bank told TBIJ that its investments remain “science-based,” under a presumption that “net zero-aligned scenarios require continued, though declining, financing of fossil fuel supplies to meet energy demand, security, and affordability during the transition.” It was another corporate spit in the face of science.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Courts in the Czech Republic and the United Kingdom have provided oversight of government climate mitigation actions. The Czech Republic joins the Netherlands, France, Germany and other EU countries in determining a government’s duty to mitigate climate change. See a detailed analysis of the decision here.

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Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 30, 2019

Back to North Carolina developments in late 2018: Executive Order on Climate Change and Clean Energy: On October 29, 2018, N.C. Governor Roy Cooper issued an executive order on climate change and clean energy. The most direct effect of the executive order will be on state government operations.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 11, 2022

The resolution also calls on countries to “move towards a clean and just energy transition.” Several countries in the OAS have committed to increased use of clean energy in their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) to the Paris Agreement. This transition has already led to climate litigation.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Coming on the heels of the powerful ‘ March to End Fossil Fuels’ last weekend, this summit continues the pressure on governments to meet the urgency of the moment. He also called for a quantum leap in climate action and announced an Acceleration Agenda for governments, the financial sector, and businesses.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 28, 2023

In China, government plans to peak and neutralise national carbon emissions, and for a wholesale green transition , have caused a boom in “green employment”. Even the landmark 2015 Paris Agreement had only a small impact on employment. The share of green employment in the global total rose from 9.6% in 2015 to 13.3%

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 17, 2023

To secure the livable future that children around the world deserve, we must double down, ratchet up pressure on governments, and break the power of the fossil fuel industry. Under the Paris Agreement, countries around the world have made voluntary pledges—called Nationally Determined Contributions, or NDCs—to reduce their emissions.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The UN NDC Synthesis Report , which finds that if countries implement their current emission reduction pledges, or nationally determined contributions (NDCs) under the Paris Agreement, global emissions will increase approximately 8.8% Committing to tripling renewable energy and doubling energy efficiency globally by 2030.

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Ocean Conservancy

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Therefore, it is crucial to rapidly transition from the production and use of fossil fuels to sustainable renewable energy sources to reach our global climate goals so we can leave a habitable planet for future generations.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Nonetheless, the new rule is a step in the right direction to a greener path towards 80 percent clean energy by 2030. #4: Now, some indigenous tribes are working cooperatively with local governments to bring back controlled burns—but this is not enough.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 4, 2021

A federal court in Australia ruled that the government had a “duty of care” toward its young people to protect them from climate change. The judge used the Paris Agreement as the benchmark for setting the company’s obligations. Two of the events involved striking decisions in lawsuits in other countries involving fossil fuels.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 18, 2021

These price shocks are a product of the fossil fuel energy system that we have built and in some ways doubled down on in recent decades. If anything, they should serve as a reminder of the urgent need to accelerate the clean energy transition. C target embraced by the Paris Agreement. Download as PDF.

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Washington Nature

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The new law includes hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of investments in building clean energy infrastructure, improving the resilience of our forests and farms and taking steps toward environmental justice. The IRA’s investments in clean energy infrastructure could transform our economy. Photo by Courtney Baxter.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The hope is that a high-level statement from Chinese and American leaders like this one will unleash more activity among climate experts, private companies, and other governments when they meet in Dubai. My colleague Alex Wang, faculty co-director at the UCLA Emmett Institute, took part in events at APEC and will be in Dubai for COP28.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Losses and damages are unequally distributed across systems, regions and sectors and are not comprehensively addressed by current financial, governance and institutional arrangements, particularly in vulnerable developing countries. Will COP27 live up to its promise?

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