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Governors Lead the Fight on Forests and Climate

Legal Planet

Only 21 countries had even submitted their updated plans for managing climate change by the 2025 deadline required under the Paris Agreement. is pulling out of the agreement altogether. Many bilateral and multilateral agreements have sprung up like mushrooms from these side conversations. When the annual U.N.

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Trump 2.0, Day One: Considerations for Cities and Community Partners

Law Columbia

For example, Section 60103 of the IRA , which establishes the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) , specifies that $15 billion of the $27 billion allocated to the GGRF should be used for the purposes of providing financial assistance and technical assistance in low-income and disadvantaged communities.

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Oil Companies Plan to Take the Road Already Traveled

Union of Concerned Scientists

ExxonMobil’s reduction pledges do not take Scope 3 emissions into account, and the company’s leadership takes issue with the Greenhouse Gas Protocol’s approach to measuring emissions, as described below. Heat-trapping emissions must be cut in half by 2030 to reach the Paris agreement goal of keeping global warming to 1.5

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Sea level in the IPCC 6th assessment report (AR6)

Real Climate

The IPCC has introduced a new high-end risk scenario, stating that a global rise “approaching 2 m by 2100 and 5 m by 2150 under a very high greenhouse gas emissions scenario cannot be ruled out due to deep uncertainty in ice sheet processes.”. The IPCC gives more consideration to the large long-term sea-level rise beyond the year 2100.

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A distraction due to errors, misunderstanding and misguided Norwegian statistics

Real Climate

A friend asked me if a discussion paper published on Statistics Norway’s website, ‘ To what extent are temperature levels changing due to greenhouse gas emissions? ’, was purposely timed for the next climate summit ( COP28 ). All this can be explained by physical processes and an enhanced greenhouse effect.

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Unpacking the liability argument against loss and damage funding

Law Columbia

The topic has steadily gained traction in international climate negotiations since then, with “loss and damage” first appearing in a negotiated text at COP13 in 2007 and later forming the “third pillar” of climate action in the Paris Agreement in 2015. and other major greenhouse gas emitters? and other developed nations.

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Guest Commentary: The Meaning of “Fair Share” in Climate Ambition Litigation under the Paris Agreement

Law Columbia

Czech Republic , ordering the Czech government to create a more ambitious emissions reduction plan based on its obligations under the Paris Agreement ( Press Release of Czech Climate Litigation ). The court’s decision adds to a list of successful climate ambition cases that began with the Netherlands’ Urgenda decision in 2007.