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).
Edouard Stenger
NOVEMBER 13, 2017
To put this in perspective, Kees van der Leun tweeted last month, ” Annual global solar PV market hit the 1 GW mark in 2004. However, we are barely reaching a third of the necessary carbon cuts to make the Paris Agreements a success. In 2016, the world added 138.5 GW of renewables to the grids.
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Legal Planet
SEPTEMBER 21, 2023
By 2035, those emissions reductions will be 43-45% below 2004 levels. An article published in Science , a top scientific journal, used nine independent models to estimate the IRA’s effect. The authors found that economy-wide emissions would be 33-40% below 2005 levels with the IRA. These numbers may be a little confusing.
Greenbuilding Law
AUGUST 1, 2021
While the idea of ESG began in 2004 with a United Nations initiative to influence capital in non-Western markets, in 2021 the legal and political institutions in the United States and the EU are demanding those ideas be implemented by businesses posthaste.
Law Columbia
MAY 7, 2021
752 (2004), and concluded that “in light of the informational role served by MEPA review, the line that must be drawn requires a ‘reasonably close causal relationship’ between the environmental effect and the alleged cause.” Plan B Earth Sued UK Government for Human Rights Harms Stemming from Failure to Meet Paris Agreement Commitments.
Law Columbia
FEBRUARY 10, 2020
The court found that the plaintiffs pled plausible claims under the Commerce Clause and Property Clause that President Trump exceeded his legal authority when he issued the permit, as well as claims that the 2019 permit violated a 2004 executive order that established a permitting process for cross-border pipelines.
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