Acoel

JANUARY 18, 2022

The Pact also reset the target for achieving net-zero GHG emissions from the 2015 Paris Agreement’s focus on the end of the century to a much more aggressive goal of net-zero emissions “by about mid-century,” interpreted by most as 2050.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 17, 2021

This official inner circle is now doing the business of the three separate international treaties in force for climate change: the 1992 Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC), the 1992 Kyoto Protocol (Yes, it still exists and is in force, although the United States is not a party), and the 2015 Paris Agreement.

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Legal Planet

JULY 5, 2023

A 2022 Rainforest Action Network repor t found that “fossil fuel financing from the world’s 60 largest banks has reached USD $4.6 trillion in the six years since the adoption of the Paris Agreement, with $742 billion in fossil fuel financing in 2021 alone.” The biggest US bank investors in fossil fuels? “At

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Fossil fuel : Any mineralized formerly organic material extracted from the ground and used in energy production: coal, natural gas, oil. Mineral resource sustainability : Minerals are precious metals, sold and liquid fossil fuels such as oil and coal, are resources that require licensing and protection for proper management.

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Edouard Stenger

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

This fertilizer can help local agriculture become more sustainable and less fossil-fuel-dependent. Over the last few decades China has installed 30 million small biodigesters to help rural populations deal with energy poverty, deforestation, and healthcare. Full disclosure: I worked on their Kickstarter campaign in 2015.).

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Unlike many other works of botany from that age and later, Sylva highlighted the growing problem of deforestation in England. We live in an age of dwindling fossil fuels and inaction on renewable energy. At the last census in 2015, it was estimated that species numbers were anything between 19,500 and 21,000.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Fossil fuel subsidies could be ratcheted down. A study based on satellite data revealed that the number of people living in floodplains grew by 58 million to 86 million between 2000 and 2015. “We Vincent, Borneo, and Alaska, decades of displacement, deforestation, and warming have defined a harrowing Anthropogenic Epoch.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2018

The federal district court for the Northern District of California denied Oakland’s and San Francisco’s motions to remand their climate change public nuisance lawsuits against five major fossil fuel producers to state court. 34-2015-80002005 (Cal. North Coast Rivers Alliance v. judgment Feb. 22, 2018; consolidated ruling Jan.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 4, 2022

There was some progress reached on ending deforestation and phasing out coal before, as in true COP tradition in the 11th hour and, a deal was struck. Ahead of the crucial UN climate summit, the mood was sombre about whether an agreement was to be reached as the ambitious target of 1.5

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Ninth Circuit Heard Oral Argument in California Local Government Cases; Fossil Fuel Companies Said Juliana Decision Supported Their Position. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments on February 5, 2020 in the appeals in California local governments’ climate change cases against fossil fuel companies.

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ESA

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

For the first time, the pact calls for a “phase down” the use of coal and fossil fuel subsidies. Leaders also announced a series of pacts to address aspects of climate change during the conference: Seven countries, led by Denmark and Costa Rica, joined the Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance, which pledges to end their use of fossil fuels.

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