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Climate Policy in the World’s Fourth Largest Country

Legal Planet

Jakarta is consistently near the top end of the world’s cities with the worst air pollution. Indonesia’s 2021 climate pledge under the Paris Agreement was to reduce emissions from 2020-2030 by 29%. This was an increased unconditional commitment compared to the 2010 pledge of 26%.

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How Post-War Justice Strategies Can Be Applied to the Climate Crisis  

Union of Concerned Scientists

The dangerous impacts of a warming, fossil-fuel dependent world span from wildfires capable of destroying entire towns to cancer-causing air pollution that afflicts the next generation. The UNFCC Paris Agreement , for example, proposed that the global community would work together to limit the Earth’s temperature warming by 1.5°C

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Ask a Scientist: The US Has to Do More to Meet Its Carbon Emissions Reduction Goals

Union of Concerned Scientists

Under the 2015 Paris Agreement, the United States voluntarily pledged to reduce its global warming emissions at least 50 percent below their 2005 levels by the end of this decade and reach net-zero emissions no later than 2050. Their report, however, comes with a warning. That would be potentially disastrous.

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Why You Should Care About The Latest IPCC Report | BreezoMeter

Breezometer

According to the report , average net annual human-caused GHG emissions were at their highest levels in human history between 2010 and 2019, with urban areas responsible for an increasing proportion of the emissions. The rate of emissions growth year on year slowed between 2010-2019 in comparison to the previous decade.

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Guest Post: Climate Litigation in Japan: Citizens’ Attempts for the Coal Phase-Out

Law Columbia

Japan’s dependency on fossil fuel s had been slightly declining until 2010. Article 2 (2) of the Act further states that citizens, the State, local authorities, business operators, and other private organizations must cooperate to achieve net zero and the objectives laid down in Article 2 (1) (a) of the Paris Agreement.

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Energy news as COP23 is taking place in Germany

Edouard Stenger

Meanwhile, many forget that the flip side of local air pollution is global climate change. We have seen it many times over, pollution from our air, water and soil is killing nine million people every year. It crashed the 10 GW barrier in 2010. Solving one will solve the other. In 2016, the world added 138.5

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Killing King Coal is the First Step Towards Halving Our Emissions

Edouard Stenger

A 2010 US study showed that stopping burning coal could be done by 2030 with renewables and energy efficiency. More recently, another study showed it had to be done in OECD nations to comply with the Paris Agreement targets. It is worth remember that overall, air pollution accounts for 7 million deaths per year (WHO).