2010 2022 Carbon Emissions Politics 
Legal Planet
FEBRUARY 21, 2024
California established first renewable portfolio standard (20% from renewables by 2010). Required the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to set standards for greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) new vehicles. Required state to reduce emissions to 1990 levels by 2020 and gave broad authority to CARB to implement the standard.
Legal Planet
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
Carbon emissions from land use change (mostly logging) are comparable to Brazil’s, though Brazil gets a lot more publicity. Economic growth has hovered around a healthy 5% annually, meaning that GDP doubles about every 15 years and that carbon emissions will also surge without vigorous climate action.
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Circle of Blue
MARCH 1, 2022
By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue – March 1, 2022. Between 2010 and 2020, the death rate from floods, storms, and droughts in high vulnerability areas was 15 times higher than in low vulnerability areas. A woman reaches for a hose from a water tanker in Rajasthan, India. Carl Ganter/Circle of Blue. There Is Still Time to Act.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JANUARY 30, 2024
Global hunger and deforestation: Excessive consumption of bio-based diesel fuels has already contributed to the 2022 global food crisis , and is accelerating deforestation caused by increased soybean and palm oil cultivation around the world. A non-binding RFS is not a stable long-term situation, for both economic and political reasons.
Corp Watch
MARCH 1, 2024
In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Royal Dutch Shell: Overview of Controversial Business Practices in 2009 (SOMO, May7 2010). References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m Risky Business: The New Shell by WWF-UK (2005).
Law Columbia
NOVEMBER 15, 2022
The written version of the testimony from which this post is adapted was submitted to the Department of Buildings, and an abbreviated oral version was delivered at the November 14, 2022 hearing. This echoes the experience of other carbon markets. Despite carefully crafted markets, political factors push prices far too low.
Corp Watch
JANUARY 26, 2024
In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Royal Dutch Shell: Overview of Controversial Business Practices in 2009 (SOMO, May7 2010). References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m Risky Business: The New Shell by WWF-UK (2005).
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