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Union of Concerned Scientists
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
Despite adding six million more passenger cars, trucks, and SUVs to the roads over the last 10 years, California’s gasoline consumption has dropped over two billion gallons from its peak in 2005. To meet emissions goals and avoid the worst impacts of climate change, this trend will need to accelerate over the coming decades.
Enviromental Defense
OCTOBER 31, 2024
The fossil fuel industry has long been the main driver of climate change, but Big Oil’s CEOs and profiteers would like you to believe that it is a part of the solution. million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (MtCO₂e) , equivalent to 5.2 million homes’ electricity use for a year!
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Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 10, 2024
I dug into this complexity with my energy colleagues in the context of their recent analysis of pathways for how the US can meet its goals to cut heat-trapping emissions 50%-52% below 2005 levels by 2030, and achieve net zero emissions no later than 2050. That analysis assumed the U.S.
Legal Planet
OCTOBER 18, 2021
By the end of next year, the commission must to develop a plan for reaching these goals involving the “least cost path.”.
Union of Concerned Scientists
SEPTEMBER 26, 2022
The impacts of climate change are upon us, a consequence of over a century of global warming emissions from human activity. An average global temperature change greater than 1.5 Replacing petroleum with renewable electricity as the primary source of transportation energy will leave us all much better off. But is this affordable?
Union of Concerned Scientists
OCTOBER 4, 2023
As carbon markets emerge as one potential approach to offsetting climate change, heirs’ property owners will be at a disadvantage in accessing those markets. As mentioned above, the carbon market, where forest landowners receive payments for sequestering carbon, is growing.
Inside Climate News
NOVEMBER 11, 2022
Steep reductions in emissions of methane—which traps 81 times as much heat as carbon dioxide in the first 20 years in the atmosphere—are among the most important steps for slowing climate change in the short term. oil and gas sector by 87 percent below 2005 levels by the end of the decade, the agency said.
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