Legal Planet

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The Federal Cabinet adopts its first climate target, a 25-30% cut in carbon emissions by 2005 under 1987 levels. Note: the estimates of 1990 emissions that I found are not entirely consistent, with one estimate closer to 1.2 Climate law makes emission targets legally binding 2019. trillion tons.]

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The legislation committed nearly $400 billion to support, among other things, wind and solar power, battery storage, electric vehicles, and other clean energy technologies that will make a significant dent in US heat-trapping emissions. An interdisciplinary team of UCS experts put their heads together to answer that question.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 4, 2024

As ExxonMobil prepares for its annual general meeting (AGM) this spring, the corporation is facing calls to drop an unprecedented lawsuit against shareholders who are asking for deeper global warming emissions reductions. The company used Dr. Avery’s image in promoting its bogus net-zero solutions.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Two topics not as squarely on the agenda—but that probably should be— include the essential and seemingly perennial questions of how to increase mitigation ambition, and what to say about fossil fuels (and fossil-fuel phaseout, in particular).

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Emissions cuts alone will (almost certainly) not keep the global average temperature rise below 1.5°C. via Wikimedia Commons) Carbon dioxide removal and Net Zero Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) is a hugely uncertain and limited resource. But some optimism remains. Gt of CO2 by 2030. What might constitute over-reliance?

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Law Columbia

APRIL 4, 2024

Framework ’ or ‘ systemic ’ mitigation cases are those that challenge a government’s overall efforts to mitigate climate change – encompassing both challenges to the ambition of emissions reduction targets and/or their implementation. Governments have been ordered to increase or update their emissions reduction efforts (e.g.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 13, 2022

California has made significant strides towards reducing pollution from vehicles by adopting trailblazing policies to accelerate the adoption of both passenger and heavy-duty zero-emissions vehicles. Now, the proposed ACF goes a step further, and would require fleets to purchase zero-emission vehicles.

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Real Climate

APRIL 21, 2021

Warming has progressed essentially linearly for fifty years in response to increasing CO2 emissions. Therefore, if emissions continue to grow, we expect a further roughly linear increase in temperature, which would then exceed 1.5 The second graph shows global CO2 emission trajectories with which we can still limit warming to 1.5 °C,

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Legal Planet

MAY 16, 2023

On a per capita basis, Australia’s carbon emissions are even higher than the United States. The Safeguard Mechanism covers facilities emitting over 100,000 tons of CO2 per year, which altogether accounted for around half of the countries emissions. Given Australia’s history, a critical question will be the longevity of this new scheme.

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Cresforum

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Modeling Pathways to Net Zero: A Case Study on Energy Security as the U.S. continues to decarbonize and work towards net zero, many questions must be answered: At what pace and scale will the U.S. need to deploy clean energy technologies to achieve net zero emissions? imports peaked in 2007.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 3, 2021

utilities have been slower to adopt the energy- and emissions-saving technologies than those in other parts of the world. Like all other industries, the clock is ticking for the sector to cut its carbon pollution, given President Joe Biden’s goal to halve the country’s greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and reach net zero by 2050.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 25, 2022

In a new policy brief released today, my colleagues Cara Horowitz, Julia Stein, and I argue that air districts have authority to go even further under state and federal law by adopting zero-NOx appliance standards—and that air districts should design such standards with the goals of equity and affordability in mind.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 18, 2023

With the growing urgency to address climate change, governments and companies are developing “net-zero” strategies to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. C, which according to the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC), means that global emissions need to be cut in half this decade.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 25, 2022

Transportation is the largest source of global warming emissions in the US and the passenger cars, trucks, and SUVs produce the majority of transportation emissions. Limiting climate change will require the rapid reduction in these emissions from the vehicles we drive. global warming) emissions.

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Law and Environment

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Phase II will include provisions governing the standard emissions factors; alternative compliance mechanisms; how to establish either hardship emission limits or compliance timelines; and exemptions. It’s not exactly profound to note that there’s a lot to do to get to net zero. I do want to pose one question, though.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Indeed, a peer-reviewed study published in September linked nearly half of all global carbon emissions from the biggest energy companies to just 10 financial institutions, led by Vanguard and BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager. The short answer is no. The finance industry is particularly bullish on the E in ESG.

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Greenbuilding Law

JANUARY 30, 2024

The stated goal of the 2022 Act is to reduce net direct greenhouse gas emissions from Maryland’s building sector for buildings that are 35,000 square feet or larger to net zero before 2040. The Climate Solutions Now Act of 2022 remains the law, and building owners should continue to track their GHG emissions.

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Clean Energy Law

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

On appeal of a strike out decision, the Court gives the plaintiff “his day in court” to argue that corporates owe a common law duty of care in tort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. By Sophie J. In Smith v. Fonterra will confront the difficult predicament of constructing an order that is effective in achieving that result.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 25, 2023

The Inflation Reduction Act’s new hydrogen production tax credit , known as code 45V, is intended to incentivize a shift to low-carbon hydrogen production by offering producers a credit that increases in value as the carbon emissions associated with produced hydrogen declines. Such a holistic perspective is important.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 22, 2024

Most Americans have real questions and concerns about climate change that should be engaged with on a day like today. They’re doing careful testing and assessment, at tiny scale and zero risk, on an intervention method that might help; they even got some prominent press coverage; and all the discussion is measured, rational, and civil.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2023

Now it’s on to the state Senate, where the question is: Will this be the year Minnesota sets a path toward 100-percent carbon-free electricity? From a countrywide perspective, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) released a study in August 2022 identifying multiple pathways to a net-zero power grid by 2035.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 1, 2022

Though the case caught fewer headlines, it, too, threatened Earth-shifting implications all its own by thrusting into question a critical EPA lever for addressing climate change. EPA did not revoke EPA’s underlying authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. Environmental Protection Agency.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Despite this year’s grim series of extreme climate-fueled disasters and record-breaking temperatures —part of a trend of worsening climate impacts—global heat-trapping emissions continue their alarming rise. The big question, though, is whether world leaders will show up and deliver—or will they, once again, fail us?

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Frontiers

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

The aviation sector is seen as a very visible contributor of CO2 emissions globally, but will efforts to clean up the industry pay off? However, while the use of SAF can help contribute to international targets, SAF alone will not be enough to meet 2050 net-zero CO2 goals for aviation. Image: Thiago B Trevisan/Shutterstock.com.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The charter largely restates woefully insufficient emissions-reduction pledges already made by investor-owned fossil fuel corporations while bringing some national oil companies under its umbrella. The charter covers only operational emissions. Don’t be fooled by the hype. National oil companies represent 60 percent of the signatories.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 24, 2021

There are an increasing number of companies and countries that are pledging to reach Net Zero carbon emissions–or carbon neutrality–by 2050. degrees and achieve net-zero by 2050. It also includes the carbon emissions created when consumers burn that oil. But let’s dive deeper.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2024

Questions should be directed to Lindsay Byron, DEP Energy Programs Office, 717-772-8951 or send email to: lbyron@pa.gov. Read more here. DEP said it has the statutory authority in the 1995 law that created the agency, the state Air Pollution Control Act and other laws to establish grant and funding programs to implement the Plan.

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Smith Enviorment

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The legislature put two provisions in the Appropriations Act of 2023 (House Bill 259) to prevent state agencies from adopting rules intended to reduce emissions of greenhouse gasses such as carbon dioxide (CO2) in the state. Prohibit cap and trade programs for CO2 emissions. Prohibit emission standards for new vehicles.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

This shift is good news because tackling methane is crucial to the fight against climate change due to its significantly higher global warming potential than CO2, the disposal of relatively cheap methods of controlling emissions, and its short atmospheric lifespan. In addition, Kazakhstan and the U.S. In addition, Kazakhstan and the U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The growing credits for electricity reflect the growing number of EVs on the road in California, and support California’s goal of phasing out combustion technologies in favor of zero emissions vehicles. But what about the rapidly increasing credits generated by biomethane?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 23, 2022

According to the latest report from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, action between now and 2030 is most critical: Immediate, deep cuts in heat-trapping emissions are necessary across all sectors if we are to limit global warming to 1.5 That would be shortsighted and dangerous. degrees Celsius. Shell is appealing the ruling.

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Greenbuilding Law

MAY 14, 2023

In a proactive move toward reducing greenhouse gas emissions from buildings in the state, the Maryland Department of the Environment has today released draft regulations to implement key aspects of Senate Bill 528 of 2022 – The Climate Solutions Now Act of 2022. think about buildings that for security reasons cannot report).

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Greenbuilding Law

OCTOBER 29, 2023

California has just enacted the Voluntary Carbon Market Disclosures Act which requires the disclosure of specified information about net zero claims, carbon offsets, and more by businesses, including by an untold number of companies located beyond the Golden State’s borders.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 1, 2022

Japan is the world’s 5 th largest CO 2 emitter, with 85 % of emissions deriving from the energy sector, which heavily relies on the use of coal-fired power plants. As a result, Japan’s CO 2 emissions increased, peaking in 2013. The revised Act explicitly included the pledge for net zero by 2050. Kobe Steel Ltd.,

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 22, 2023

also participated in the Global Methane Pledge Ministerial and announced final EPA pollution standards to limit methane emissions from oil and gas operations, a critical step to addressing the health and environmental harms from these emissions. and some partners also announced next steps for the Energy Transition Accelerator.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 6, 2023

Uninterested This comes as the UK’s now former Minister of State for Overseas Territories, Commonwealth, Energy, Climate, and Environment, Zack Goldsmith , recently resigned in a serious attack on Sunak, arguing he was simply uninterested in reaching net-zero.

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Real Climate

JULY 10, 2022

This means that there is an upward surface flux of IR around (~398 W/m 2 ), while the outward flux at the top of the atmosphere (TOA) is roughly equivalent to the net solar radiation absorbed (~240 W/m 2 ). A sample Earth spectra taken from the NIMBUS-4 satellite in 1970 along with the theoretical blackbody emissions at 280 and 220 Kelvin.

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