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Should countries issue binding unilateral declarations on GHG emission targets?

Law Columbia

But while the Paris Agreement is formally a legally binding international treaty, it is generally recognized that (similar to many other multilateral environmental agreements) it only creates procedural obligations: to submit and maintain an NDC and subsequently report on performance.

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Using the Free Market to Affect Change: An Argument for Environmental Taxes

Vermont Law

to reducing their carbon emissions. which will implement national standards to govern carbon pollution from power plants. international climate change agreement. the Paris Agreement) that will require periodic, rigorous accounting and management of total national emissions. social cost of carbon.

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Killing King Coal is the First Step Towards Halving Our Emissions

Edouard Stenger

As I have spent some sleepless nights since the latest IPCC report on how Mankind has to halve its carbon emissions by 2030. As we shall see, this is already currently happening, it is the moral thing to do, the best economic choice, and the fastest and easiest way to halve our emissions.

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Global Perspectives on a Global Pact for the Environment

Law Columbia

John Ruggie’s 2008 Framework imposes only a responsibility, not a legal duty, on companies to respect human rights. About 22 percent of global CO2 emissions are associated with exported goods. As a result, voluntary approaches have dominated, such as the United Nations Global Compact. The Global Pact could change this.

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COP 21: A Kyoto Protocol Redux?

Vermont Law

Less than four months from the release of the Paris agreement, Professor Mark Latham does not share the optimism expressed by others. It was expected to set the stage for a five percent reduction in carbon emissions that would occur beginning in 2008 through 2012, based on 1990 emission levels.

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May 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Columbia Climate Law

The plaintiffs alleged among other things that the defendants the two projects’ cumulative impacts on carbon emissions. argued that the agreements and related arrangements conflicted with and were an obstacle to U.S. s decision not to participate in the Paris Agreement. foreign policy, including the U.S.’s

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