PA Environment Daily

JUNE 7, 2023

The Pittsburgh 2030 District , a project of the Green Building Alliance , has released its 2022 Progress Report , revealing District property partners have reduced carbon emissions by 44.8% This achievement moves the District within range of reaching its target goal of 50-65% reduction in carbon emissions before the 2030 deadline.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The Clean Power Plan (CPP) was the Obama Administration’s signature climate effort. This 2015 regulation aimed to move state power grids away from coal and toward renewable energy. When fully implemented, the Clean Power Plan was intended to cut carbon emissions 30% below the 2005 level by 2030.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 12, 2023

Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). climate policy. 2011 Supreme Court decides AEP case, barring lawsuits against carbon emitters using the federal common law of nuisance. 2012 EPA adopts regulation limiting carbon emissions for new cars. 2015 Paris Agreement adopted with strong U.S.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The Executive Director of the International Energy Agency had this to say: ““I want to make it clear: the Inflation Reduction Act is the single most important climate action since the Paris Agreement in 2015.” Some climate advocates don’t like provisions supporting carbon sequestration and the use of hydrogen.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

Attorneys general (AGs) in the five states most vulnerable to climate change, however, are doing the exact opposite: Instead of defending their constituents, they are defending the fossil fuel industry. By railing against what he calls a “radical climate change movement” and suing the federal government to protect corporate polluters.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

JULY 11, 2021

John Cochrane has posted an important blog post about adapting to climate change. Another quote from JC; "But reducing carbon is thus, logically, just one item on the list of answers to "What can we do to raise GDP in 2100?," I have working on the costs of climate change for 15 years now going back to my 2005 Death Toll paper.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 10, 2024

Our study, which examined net-zero legislation and litigation in Brazil, China, Germany, and the United States, will become even more pertinent as nations grapple with implementing their commitments under the Paris Agreement from 2015 and the more recent consensus reached in Dubai.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 14, 2023

Last month, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed new power plant carbon pollution standards that, if strengthened, would go a long way to help meet the Biden administration’s goal of slashing carbon emissions in half from 2005 levels by the end of this decade. What would they accomplish? Not even close.

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HumanNature

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Land-Use and Climate Change Growing urban populations are accelerating land-use change (LUC) around the globe, as witnessed in the Front Range of Colorado 1–3. In recent history, we have witnessed LUC exacerbating climate change due to disturbed soils, development of greenhouse gas (GHG) producing land uses, and more 4.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 20, 2023

Two seasons in one The presidential primary season coincides with “ Danger Season ”—the period between May and October when the Northern Hemisphere experiences back-to-back extreme weather augmented by climate change. Candidates are crisscrossing New Hampshire amid climate-related and climate-boosted catastrophes.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 27, 2021

For nearly three decades the United Nations has been bringing together almost every country on Earth for global climate summits known as the “Conference of the Parties”. In that time climate change has gone from being a fringe issue to a global priority. C above pre-industrial levels within the next two decades. Global goals.

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Legal Planet

JULY 1, 2021

In short, what’s the extinction cost of carbon? There are uncertainties in climate modeling, and greater uncertainties in estimating the number of species impacted by climate change. megaton reduction in emissions. What does a rise to 2° require in terms of carbon emissions? million megatons.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 16, 2023

But another major culprit is climate change, which has intensified the heat and drought that have always been factors in western North America. That climate change obviously didn’t just happen on its own. Encroaching development in fire-prone areas and widespread fire suppression are among them. Licker et al.

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Legal Planet

MAY 16, 2024

The Court also ruled that EPA could consider only the science relating to climate change in deciding whether to exercise this authority. Since Obama, EPA has used this authority to regulation carbon emissions from vehicles and power plants. 743 (2015) (Justice Scalia ). Michigan v. EPA, 576 U.S. West Virginia v.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Indeed, a peer-reviewed study published in September linked nearly half of all global carbon emissions from the biggest energy companies to just 10 financial institutions, led by Vanguard and BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager. Below is an abridged version of our exchange. Consider what has happened at BlackRock.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The Federal Cabinet adopts its first climate target, a 25-30% cut in carbon emissions by 2005 under 1987 levels. Note: the estimates of 1990 emissions that I found are not entirely consistent, with one estimate closer to 1.2 Government adopts a sector-by-sector plan to reach 2050 climate goals. trillion tons.]

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 5, 2023

In 2015, then again in 2020, the number of burned acres from wildfires crossed the 10 million-acre mark. Beth Pratt, the California regional executive director for the National Wildlife Federation, told the Guardian newspaper in April, “Yosemite is ground zero for climate change.” Half Dome nearly obscured by wildfire smoke.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 1, 2022

Now comes the court’s crippling of the most important federal weapon available to avoid catastrophic climate change and its associated killing of tens of thousands of Americans every year with fossil fuel air pollution. The talks ended with no serious agreements and carbon dioxide levels soaring to new records.

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Washington Nature

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

As the climate changes, so should we. Record-setting heatwaves, devastating flooding, and more severe and frequent wildfires have shown us that climate change is at our doorstep. For instance, transportation accounts for 40 percent of Washington state greenhouse gas emissions. Photo by Julie Morse /TNC.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 19, 2022

Climate Change on the Docket. At issue in this case is whether and how the EPA can set standards for carbon emissions at power plants. He asked her, “What weight do you assign to the effects on climate change, which some people believe is a matter of civilizational survival, and the costs and the effect on jobs?”.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 27, 2022

This Summit will explore business opportunities in the transition to a clean energy economy, featuring CEOs who have made bold commitments to reduce carbon emissions. The CEOs for Sustainability network exemplifies business action toward reaching the goals set forth in the 2015 Paris Agreement, which aim to limit global warming to 1.5

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 20, 2023

A multi-decade legal history, including four Supreme Court decisions, has led to unimpeachable clarity on this one point: EPA has a statutory obligation to regulate carbon emissions from power plants under Section 111 of the Clean Air Act. EPA ruling, EPA can still establish rigorous carbon emissions standards.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Countries across Africa could lose 14% of their per capita GDP to climate change by 2050 and 34% by 2100, even if average global warming is held to 1.5°C, C, according to a report released this morning at this year’s UN climate conference, COP 27 , in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. Photo credit: Anouk Delafortrie / Twitter.

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Edouard Stenger

JULY 27, 2018

The author was an engineering professor at Cambridge and the Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change and was knighted by the Queen for his work. Verdict: This book shows that reversing climate change is not a technological one as we have the solutions to do so. – .

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

By Rejimon Kuttappan Along with a major expansion of renewable energy, India is also pushing for big increases in its coal production, casting doubt on its climate commitments. On the same day at COP28, the Indian government submitted its third “National Communication” to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

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Environmental Progress

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Testimony before the House Agriculture Committee for a Hearing on “Climate Change and the U.S. Technological change and agricultural modernization will significantly outweigh climate change in the U.S. Vegetarianism is not important for protecting the environment or reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 2, 2022

At the start of the recent COP 27 climate meeting in Egypt, a United Nations report on the role of financial institutions in controlling climate change said, “There is no room for new investment in fossil fuel supply.”. Climate change is a material risk, but it is only one factor in an investment decision.” .

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Frontiers

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Countries signed up to the 2015 Paris Agreement have committed themselves to keep the rise in average global temperature ‘well below’ 2 °C. Every five years, they are to issue so-called ‘nationally determined contributions’ (NDCs), describing their actions to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and adapt to climate change impacts.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 8, 2023

Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed standards on carbon pollution from fossil-fuel-fired power plants ( Docket ID No. Power plants are responsible for approximately 25% of climate pollution in the U.S. and are the second largest source of carbon emissions nationwide. EPA-HQ-OAR-2023-0072-0001 ).

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 7, 2021

South Asia is home to nearly a quarter of the world’s population , and to some of the countries most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. South Asia is home to nearly a quarter of the world’s population , and to some of the countries most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 6, 2023

While much of the concern about climate change is understandably centered on staying beneath a threshold of temperatures that will unleash catastrophic climate impacts, the study is a reminder that there is much more to the preservation of the planet. The evidence could not be clearer that the Earth really is quite sick.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The last few days saw two major developments in international rights-based climate litigation, with the adoption of a new resolution by the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) and a long-awaited decision on a climate case by the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC). Recent Developments on rights-based climate litigation.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 22, 2022

We all know that to successfully address climate change we need to phase out fossil fuels and switch to electric power. Storage costs decreased almost 70 per cent between 2015 and 2018 and are expected to keep falling significantly. Luckily it’s entirely possible (and cost effective!)

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

conference would be worse, for multilateralism and for global action on climate change. Glasgow was about ratcheting up ambition and closing the gap between what has been committed to and what is needed to avoid catastrophic climate change. . Because the collapse of a U.N. Some baby steps, some backward steps.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 28, 2023

in 2015 to 13.3% In China, government plans to peak and neutralise national carbon emissions, and for a wholesale green transition , have caused a boom in “green employment”. The decarbonisation target prompted a shift towards climate change. The share of green employment in the global total rose from 9.6%

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Climate Change Brings Water Risks. Is Michigan Ready for Climate Change? Climate Change Grips Trout Streams Across the Nation: 2 Comments / November 2, 2021 Across the country, anglers have watched as droughts, floods, and high temperatures batter the rivers they depend on. Water Access and Affordability.

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HumanNature

MARCH 31, 2021

(Figure 1) These properties are a double-edged sword: while they are the root of the problems that black carbon causes, they also make mitigating black carbon one of the most actionable ways to fight climate change. Initiatives targeting black carbon have already developed amazing and innovative solutions.

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