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California’s Climate Leadership: A Timeline

Legal Planet

2009 CARB established Low Carbon Fuel Standard for vehicles. 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. Effectively prohibited California utilities from using electricity from coal-fired generation. 2015 SB350.

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DEP Secretary Negrin Resigns Effective Dec. 8, On Medical Leave; Jessica Shirley Named Interim Acting Secretary

PA Environment Daily

She also held a Graduate Policy Intern position in the Governor’s Office of Policy and Planning in 2009 and an Undergraduate Policy Intern position in the Department of Public Welfare in 2006. Richard Negrin Richard Negrin served as Acting Secretary of DEP from January 17 until he was confirmed by the Senate on June 27.

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The politics of (bad) policy design: French solar panels and Northern Irish boilers

Environmental Europe

As one previous post on this blog detailed, the current political turmoil in Northern Ireland was sparked by a subsidy for renewable energy production. Though it is tempting to blame political carelessness, the ongoing RHI scandal prompts a broader reflection about renewable energy policy instruments. data: SOeS ). speculative ones.

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The Riddle of the Maldives

Legal Planet

In the run-up to the Copenhagen climate negotiations in 2009, President Mohamed Nasheed held a cabinet meeting in scuba gear 20 feet underwater to show what awaited the low-lying island nation of the Maldives if serious action were not taken to reduce greenhouse gases. It was the site for one of the most iconic climate policy photos.

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We Crossed 1.5 C. Did We Breach the Paris Agreement?

Legal Planet

C is a political target, not a scientifically determined limit. But it’s a political target that’s based on a reasonable assessment of science that suggests that harms from climate change are likely to get worse faster after passing 1.5 It says the Agreement aims to hold global-average heating “well below 2.0 Q: Why is 1.5

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Energy transition and social sciences – How can environmental sociology help us expand the understanding of energy transitions?

HumanNature

Therefore, the study and possible solutions of global energy transition should consider biological and natural processes as well as the socio economic and political trade-offs. The political economy of the ‘just transition’. Energy transition is a complex and non-linear process with multiple questions and interdependent factors.

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Repsol Sued in Class Action for $1 Billion Over Peru’s Worst Oil Spill

Corp Watch

Business & Human Rights Resource Center | September 25, 2009 The suit argues that the government did not consult with local people before giving the companies permission to work there, as is required under international law, and oil exploration would violate local peoples’ fundamental human rights to ‘enjoy a balanced environment’.

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