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California’s Climate Leadership: A Timeline

Legal Planet

Required the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to set standards for greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) new vehicles. 2006 AB 32. Required state to reduce emissions to 1990 levels by 2020 and gave broad authority to CARB to implement the standard. Required CARB to create an inventory of GHG emissions. 2018 SB100.

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Stanford and Beyond

Legal Planet

A lot has been written about the efforts of universities to clean up their own carbon emissions. school of sustainability in 2006. There’s little in the way of systematic information, but there does seem to be a lot of ferment in the area. I want to begin by lamenting the lack of systematic information.

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What should cities of the future look like?

Our Environment

The transport sector alone is responsible for 23% of carbon emissions from energy use globally, with up to 40% of this coming from urban areas (Coalition for Urban Transition, 2019). So what needs to change: Cities of the future will need to rely less on fossil fuels and invest in renewable energies. link] (19)30215-3.pdf.

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Back in Black: Creating positive changes by focusing on a short-lived pollutant

HumanNature

µm in diameter, which include our black carbon particles of interest, have been shown to be particularly problematic because they can penetrate deep into the lungs and blood stream and cause cardiovascular and respiratory disease (Pope and Dockery, 2006; Brook et al., Particles that are less than 2.5 The Lancet 389 (10082): 1907–18.

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Solar Panels Are More Carbon-Intensive Than Experts Admit

Environmental Progress

Much of the cradle-to-grave carbon intensity data that governments depend on to guide in photovoltaic arrays are instead based on modeling assumptions that are likely to have grossly under-estimated — if not made-up — solar’s carbon emissions because they cannot get insights from Chinese manufacturers.

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Municipalities of Puerto Rico v. Exxon: a unique class action against fossil fuel companies presses for climate accountability in the United States

Law Columbia

The quasi-judicial findings of the Commission were unprecedented in attesting to the Carbon Majors’ misrepresentation and denial of the effects of climate change, pushing the needle of accountability and challenging the political structures that have maintained climate inaction.

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Land-use, climate change, and policy – Opportunities to act locally while thinking globally

HumanNature

What is needed by policy- and decision-makers at the local and sub-state scale is the ability to perform scenario analysis with relative ease that compares different land-use scenarios and the associated carbon sequestration and public ROI potentials. Carbon emissions from land use and land-cover change. Scale Carbon Emissions.