2013 Carbon Emissions Law 
Environmental News Bits
JANUARY 23, 2023
The new “cap-and-invest” program is designed to follow in the footsteps of California, where a cap-and-trade system began in 2013, while trying to learn from its missteps. Signed into law … Continue reading Washington state just started capping carbon emissions. Here’s how it works.
A Greener Life
JANUARY 18, 2022
At the beginning of the 20th century, Costa Rica had focused its economic development mainly on agricultural activity, enacting laws that encouraged deforestation to turn land into agriculture , such as the land and colonisation law of 1961.
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A Greener Life
FEBRUARY 14, 2024
In its Nationally Determined Contributions ( NDCs ), updated in 2022, India has made three major promises: a 45% reduction in its carbon emissions intensity (CO2 emissions per unit of electricity) based on 2005 levels, by 2030; 50% of installed electricity coming from non-fossil-fuel sources by 2030; and national carbon neutrality by 2070.
Circle of Blue
APRIL 16, 2025
Fewer carbon emissions, less fossil energy use. In 2013, they became the first group in the state to adopt a new conservation tool, called a Local Enhanced Management Area. The LEMA was locally designed but came with the force of law. The farmers in northwest Kansas not only remain profitable.
Greenbuilding Law
NOVEMBER 6, 2022
Scope 4 greenhouse gas emissions are not new. They date to 2013 when the Greenhouse Gas Protocol identified “avoided emissions” as emission reductions that occur outside of a product’s lifecycle or value chain, but as a result of the use of that product.
Vermont Law
MARCH 16, 2018
By Dan Wilcox, Senior Notes Editor, Vermont Journal of Environmental Law. Long recognized in both American and English common law, the defense rests on the claim that an otherwise illegal act is legally excusable as necessary to avoid a greater harm. In 2013, Massachusetts District Attorney C. Upcoming cases will provide U.S.
HumanNature
NOVEMBER 29, 2022
According to the US EPA, environmental justice is “ the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people, regardless of race, color, national origin, or income, with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies ”. Current Issues in Tourism , 13 (5), 495-505. OECD (2022).
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