Environmental Progress

JANUARY 18, 2024

Since 2015.” Prior to the closing months of 2015, no notable OSW survey, construction, or maintenance vessel traffic existed in the Atlantic Ocean.1 Testimonies from the United Kingdom show that resolving the climate crisis has been the priority for the government over concerns related to wildlife and environmental impacts.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 10, 2024

A landmark ruling in the Swiss Women’s case criticized governments for not acting in line with science and unequivocally stated that inadequate government action on climate change constitutes a violation of human rights. The other two cases were dismissed due to procedural issues, not due to the merits of the cases.

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 25, 2022

In 2015, the EPA published the Clean Power Plan (CPP), which established mechanisms for reducing power plants’ greenhouse gas emissions that included shifting power generation toward lower- and non-emitting energy sources. As of now, there is no rule governing greenhouse gas emissions from existing power plants in effect under Section 111(d).

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

2015 SB350. Bush torpedoed climate action by the federal government early in his administration. Effectively prohibited California utilities from using electricity from coal-fired generation. 2009 CARB established Low Carbon Fuel Standard for vehicles. 2011 CARB adopted cap and trade system. 2016 SB 32. 2018 SB100.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 11, 2023

In the 2015 report , water crises were ranked as the risk having the most impact. It ranks water stress tenth, arguing that governments are treating water scarcity as a “temporary crisis” and not the systemic threat that it is. The World Economic Forum has company in this regard.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Water utilities and governments are re-evaluating customer assistance for low-income residents. It provided $350 billion to state, local, and tribal governments to respond to Covid-19, invest in infrastructure, and recover lost revenue. It is past time that local governments seek solutions to these persistent and systemic problems.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The report, published last week, found that the government has allocated more than enough funding to build the necessary water infrastructure. The findings come in the aftermath of a critical missed deadline by the federal government. Since the March 31 deadline, the Canadian government has pledged nearly $1.5 A 2004 U.N.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Government adopts a sector-by-sector plan to reach 2050 climate goals. The government proposes new measures to help meet the 2030 climate target, including 80% renewables by 2030. Fifteen percent of electricity is renewable. Germany decides to phase out nuclear power, complicating efforts to decarbonize the power sector.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 26, 2024

Developing the Pathways Alliance project is currently projected to cost over $16 billion dollars , and Pathways Alliance CEOs like Pourbaix are insisting that governments should cover most of it – even as these companies are making record profits. Both were eventually rejected by governments. Sometimes the industry tells on itself.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 13, 2023

The movement follows a worldwide upsurge in climate change-related cases, which have more than doubled since 2015. The court also ordered the State, considered remiss, to release the resources of the Climate Fund , a government program that aims to mitigate the impacts of climate change. Brazil) is also noteworthy.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

Even so, it compares favorably with the national governments in places like the U.S. Last year, South Korea strengthened its renewable portfolio standard to 25% renewables by 2034 The government hopes to reduce electricity consumption 14% by 2030. What is South Korea doing to cut its emissions? and Australia.

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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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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

3), upheld the City of Livermore’s (“City”) approval of a 130-unit affordable housing project on a downtown infill site and its accompanying determination that the project was CEQA-exempt under Government Code section 65457 (“Section 65457”). ( Save Livermore Downtown v. 2015) 62 Cal.4th City of Livermore (2023) __ Cal.App.5th__

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 15, 2022

In addition, the state has required local governments, when they are developing their general plans that control land-use and development, to account for the risk of fire. CEQA generally requires disclosure and feasible mitigation of significant environmental impacts from government-approved development projects in the state.

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Vermont Law

AUGUST 31, 2015

On May 24, 2015 Pope Francis used his. Religious and social leaders are taking steps to push governments around the world to take action and protect our atmosphere. Pope Francis’ 2015 Encyclical: The Environmental Reader’s Digest Version. He linked science, morality and church doctrine to do so. By Ashton Roberts. encyclical.

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Corp Watch

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Industry lobbyists weakened Europe's air pollution rules, say Greenpeace The Guardian PaulaR Fri, 02/16/2024 - 20:05 Thursday, March 5, 2015 Read more Arthur Neslen and Rob Evans Governments, including the UK, are allowing energy industry representatives to help draw up Europe’s air quality limits resulting in proposed standards on coal plant emissions (..)

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 25, 2022

On January 25, the Senate Environmental Resources and Energy Committee heard from several witnesses from Central Pennsylvania reporting that State Government has refused to pay stormwater management fees designed to help the Commonwealth meet Chesapeake Bay cleanup obligations and for other areas of the state. That’s exactly what’s happening.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Representatives Scott Peters (D-California) and María Elvira Salazar (R-Florida), the NCARS bill would improve how the federal government prepares and responds to extreme weather and climate-related disasters. Over a decade, from 2007-2017 , the direct costs of extreme weather events to the federal government was $350 billion.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 26, 2024

By 2015, I successfully completed my first solar implementation in my home community which was Little Buffalo’s first grid-connected solar project that powers our health centre. When Canada’s federal government first started talking about legislation to support a just transition – I must admit, I was hopeful.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 4, 2021

The auditor-general’s report comes after an audit in 2015 that found 80 percent of communities failed to meet Australian drinking water standards. and Canada could negotiate a settlement under a 1977 treaty that governs pipelines across the border.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

In a widely read report in 2015 that ECCSCM conducted with the Michigan chapter of the Sierra Club, Taylor revealed for the first time that nearly 700 million gallons of liquid manure was spread annually in the western Lake Erie basin. Government agencies, nevertheless, are trying. There’s no way to stop it from reaching tiles.”.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 14, 2022

A bare-chested old man lies in the emergency room of a government hospital in northeast Nigeria. The government has even tried to retrain some herders to work as ranchers, but there is little known about the progress of this initiative. We want the government to help us. A floundering government response. We grew up here.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Before the Paris Agreement was signed in 2015, the world was on track for a catastrophic four degrees of warming. This includes developing funding mechanisms to shift government dollars towards climate action. And that’s why we’re going to be there: to hold Canadian government representatives accountable! Who attends COP?

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 6, 2021

Sustainability-related financing has tripled since 2015, with a tenfold increase in flows to environmental, social and governance (ESG) funds, an eight-fold increase in sustainable debt issuance and a doubling in the value of ESG-related deals by private equity and venture capital firms, according to a report by Generation Investment Management.…

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HumanNature

MARCH 11, 2024

Student in the Department of Economics at Colorado State University As the urgent need to take tough action towards climate mitigation and sustainability gathers pressure, for most major power-holders today, including the markets, institutions, government agencies, media and countries, environmentalism has perhaps become the biggest fashion fad.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Q: The Brazilian government knows about these gains thanks to satellite data from Brazil’s space research agency. That’s something we at the GCF Task Force are very focused on with respect to engagement between subnational governments and Indigenous Peoples and local communities. Gray: Yes, for sure. Download as PDF

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

During the 2015 UN climate summit, COP19, held in Paris – the world’s nations agreed to set a target to keep temperatures from rising above 1.5 Scientists can’t agree whether 2024 will be even warmer than 2023, but policy-makers and governments will be hoping that a reversal can be made to drop down below 1.5

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

It’s a privilege to be here representing the Union of Concerned Scientists with my colleagues, peers from other NGOs and wider civil society and government and private sector leaders from around the globe. Our shared aim? To secure a livable future for people and the planet for generations to come. The legacy of Sharm el-Sheikh: up to u s.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The process requires the government to assess past progress, project future emissions, and come up with a strategy to meet its climate goals. The scoping process has been key to California’s success in cutting greenhouse gas emissions.

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Corp Watch

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

million to settle charges it lobbied for federal contract with federal money The Washington Post PaulaR Mon, 09/18/2023 - 19:50 Thursday, August 27, 2015 Read more Lisa Rein The world’s largest defense contractor has agreed to pay $4.7 Lockheed Martin pays $4.7

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 17, 2021

Government agencies and nonprofit groups are preparing for difficult months ahead. When this photo was taken, in April 2015, the well at their nearby home had been dry for 18 months and they visited the depot twice a week for water. It is trying to reach people who might be leery of government intervention.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

JANUARY 4, 2022

This is a highly optimistic adaptation paper and it puts Government at the center of achieving adaptation progress. In my 2015 paper, I discuss the broad issue. In the absence of government regulation, insurance prices for real estate will rise there. Kahn Matthew E., 12(1), pages 25-30, August.

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Energy and Climate Law

DECEMBER 8, 2020

For France, the “Affaire du Siècle” case was filed in the Administrative Court of Paris in May 2019 by four NGOs against the government for its failure to act on climate change. As a result, the Conseil d’Etat requested the government to justify how the reduction path to 2030 can be respected without stricter measures.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The breakthrough happened in 2015, at the landmark conference in Paris. Government ministries from Albania, Morocco, and Peru also signed on. By championing skills development, data exchanges, systematic approaches, research and development, governance, and financing, the Paris Pact, in its intent, helped set the course for the climb.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 17, 2023

A more thorough history would include the settling and colonization of California by the Spanish (1500s) and Mexican (early 1800s) governments, but for brevity, I focus here on the intentional and duplicitous actions of the California state government (established in 1850) and its co-conspirator: the United States federal government.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 22, 2021

One water utility, Southern Water, was fined £90 million for deliberately dumping wastewater into waterways from 2010 to 2015. The pollution has sparked criticism from the public, prompting stricter laws from the government and promises from utilities to lower pollution. Sewage pollution is rampant in U.K. ON THE RADAR.

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Frontiers

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

In 2015, Tom joined Clarivate Analytics (now Clarivate ) as a publisher relations manager for Web of Science Group with a focus on content and communication strategy. Tom also served as a liaison to CCC’s government relations team, which works to guide policymakers on copyright modernization and related topics.

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