Vermont Law

AUGUST 31, 2015

On May 24, 2015 Pope Francis used his. as a vehicle to call for a sweeping transformation of politics, economics, and lifestyles to tackle environmental degradation and climate change. there is an urgent need for politics and economics to enter into a frank dialogue in the service of life, especially human life.” encyclical.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 16, 2021

As famines historically are caused by conflict or political issues, and socioeconomic vulnerabilities, the famine in Madagascar–one of the lowest emitters of carbon and greenhouse gasses in the world–stands out as being heavily influenced by climate change. In some pockets in the south, this number is one in three.

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Environmental Europe

JANUARY 26, 2017

As one previous post on this blog detailed, the current political turmoil in Northern Ireland was sparked by a subsidy for renewable energy production. Though it is tempting to blame political carelessness, the ongoing RHI scandal prompts a broader reflection about renewable energy policy instruments. data: SOeS ). speculative ones.

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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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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

2015 SB350. 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. Renewable energy target raised to 50% by 2030. 2016 SB 32. 2018 SB100.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 26, 2024

President & CEO of Cenovus Energy: 2017-2023 TC Energy: 1990-2017 Chief Operating Officer of TC Energy: 2015-2017 VP and President Development of TC Energy Corp: 2006-2014 Villain Career Profile Alex Pourbaix has always gone above and beyond to advocate for pipelines and the oil and gas industry. million in 2015.

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HumanNature

MARCH 11, 2024

Sounding Green” has not only become politically correct, but also a possible finance-generating mechanism. Climate is a global issue and when complex political systems around the world are brought together, solutions cannot be straightforward. Developing countries need renewable energy investments of about US$1.7

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

degrees Fahrenheit) is a target to limit global-average heating that was adopted by nations in the 2015 Paris Agreement. C is a political target, not a scientifically determined limit. So, I asked him what we should make of this alarming but confusing development in the study of global temperatures. Q: What exactly is the 1.5

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HumanNature

MARCH 15, 2024

Therefore, the study and possible solutions of global energy transition should consider biological and natural processes as well as the socio economic and political trade-offs. The political economy of the ‘just transition’. Energy transition is a complex and non-linear process with multiple questions and interdependent factors.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 2, 2022

Impacts on People and Politics Not Addressed. The proposed SEC rule also fails to address political influence. UCS recommended that the SEC require companies to disclose political activity, including direct and indirect election spending and lobbying. Investors—and the public—deserve stability and certainty.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2023

He received his bachelor’s degree in political science from Wagner College, where he was a consensus football all-American and served as captain of the 1987 National Championship football team. Both are widely supported on both sides of the political aisle and have served the Commonwealth with integrity and innovative ideas.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

There’s much on the agenda at this year’s summit, including negotiations on what measures countries are willing to take to cut emissions in line with the Paris Agreement—a commitment they made at COP21 back in 2015. My UCS colleagues and I are here because global climate policy must be informed by and aligned with the latest science.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

It’s a contentious issue fraught with political and social dynamics that have largely doomed previous attempts. (UCS) UCS’s findings are consistent with the conclusions of the Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Transmission Needs Study , which it released last October.

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Physics World

MAY 17, 2022

Bigot took over as head of ITER in March 2015 and was almost halfway through his second term as ITER boss, which would have ended in 2025. He took over as chair of France’s Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission in 2009 before succeeding the Japanese physicist Osamu Motojima as ITER boss in 2015. We will miss him greatly.

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Inside Climate News

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

By Liza Gross In 2015, a California water board suddenly found itself under a microscope for allowing farmers to irrigate their crops with oil field wastewater, a practice it had condoned for decades. Chevron is the largest provider of the wastewater. GSI Environmental identified no health risks associated with the controversial practice.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 23, 2021

The situation in the landlocked country, which has been the centre of various geo-political battles in recent times, became severely unstable. The crisis in Afghanistan reached a new peak this month when the US officially withdrew its forces from the country.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 29, 2021

This isn’t merely theoretical; the Under 2 Coalition was created, as I understand it, after a series of meetings between subnationals leading up to and around COPs and was launched at the Paris COP in 2015. (My That network of subnationals cooperating on climate change now includes areas accounting for 50% of global GDP.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Or, more precisely, Mark Wu and I predicted the current conflict pitting the United States against the rest of the world in our 2015 Northwestern Law Review piece, “ Next Generation Trade and Environment Conflicts.” It is rare that a law professor gets to say with some justification, “I told you so.”

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Inside Climate News

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

By Phil McKenna Acts of sabotage in September against the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 pipelines that run from Russia to Germany beneath the Baltic Sea released more than twice as much methane as the 2015-2016 Aliso Canyon gas storage leak in California, yet will have little impact on the climate, according to a study released Friday.

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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 decision was made in a lawsuit filed by four political parties (PSB et al. The timing of these climate disputes is not accidental.

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A Greener Life

JULY 30, 2021

It was evident how much influence they had on Merkel’s government after the latter did not want to take meaningful action against them following the Dieselgate scandal from 2008 – 2015. It goes without saying that their number one priority should be getting out of coal as soon as possible. .

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 26, 2022

SS: My climate change research journey began in 2015 when I started my Ph.D. It says that just outcomes require full political participation, recognition of the underlying social drivers of privilege and oppression, and an understanding of the uneven distribution of impacts across space and time. at UMass Amherst.

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Environmental Europe

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Political scientists at TU Darmstadt explain in a new study what it takes to achieve this. The signatories of the 2015 Paris Agreement not only agreed to limit global warming to well below two degrees, but each country also put forward concrete measures to reduce greenhouse gases and secure financial support. “At

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 17, 2021

For two or three weeks, climate politics gets intense worldwide news coverage. This year’s meeting was also “CMP16” (the 16 th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol of 1997), and CMA3 (the 3 rd meeting of the Conference of Parties to the Paris Agreement of 2015). Then things move on.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

See this 2015 paper set in the United States. As the social cost of this distortion rises, economic theory predicts that political reform will take place. My students are studying this hypothesis in the developing world and investigating what frictions (such as government policy) inhibit adaptation from taking place.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 11, 2022

The work was initiated by Alexander Hristov , distinguished professor of dairy nutrition, in 2015 when he was the chair of the Feed and Nutrition Network of the 35-country Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases. degrees Fahrenheit. degrees Fahrenheit.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 20, 2023

This methodology is similar to my own work combining climate science, political science, and history to reconstruct how UN climate negotiations have played out and what that implies for climate justice. The present is always being created out of past actions that led to where we are today.

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Environmental Europe

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Otherwise national pledges to address climate change in the spirit of the 2015 Paris Agreement will not build sufficient global trust. The 2015 Paris Agreement marked a shift towards countries making emission reduction pledges known as Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and a new Transparency Framework (Article 13).

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Frontiers

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

C limit of the 2015 Paris Agreement, this needs to happen as soon as possible. At this point, they remain political. And history teaches us that political obstacles can be overcome,” he wrote in an editorial accompanying the article, also published in Frontiers in Science.   To keep within the 1.5°C

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

And we’ve seem successes in other GCF Task Force countries, in particular in Indonesia, which has been a real leader over the last several years in achieving large reductions in deforestation – a 64% reduction from 2020-2022 as compared with 2015-2017.

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Acoel

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

A small lake in Northern Wisconsin became the battleground for a classic showdown between a small group of cottage owners and a well-healed, politically connected entrepreneur. The battle stretched out over seven years between 2015 and 2021. About 60 members of the community attended the meeting.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 20, 2023

There arecurrently carbon standards in place for new power plants , which were set back in 2015; however, there are no standards for existing plants as neither the 2015 Clean Power Plan nor the 2019 Affordable Clean Energy Rule —both of which targeted existing facilities—remain in place.

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Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

The Top 10 Environmental Watch List is not about politics on its face, but as any 1L taking Constitutional Law can tell you, law and politics are fruit of the same tree. But Earth is indifferent to political shifts or election timelines, and climate change is teetering at its catastrophic tipping point. judicial appointments.

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HumanNature

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

We watched, consumed, and internalized conflict as the pandemic layered social, political, economic, and climate crises. Some warn that the meaning of “resilience” has been diluted for “maladaptive political means and thus hamper the effectiveness of genuine attempts to mitigate damage” (Soubry & Sherren, 2022, p.1). music, art).

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Circle of Blue

MAY 3, 2022

There is a general lack of political will, certainly. Shutting off access to drinking water and basic sanitation to families is becoming a greater political concern, let alone a humanitarian concern. There’s a fair amount of enthusiasm lately among cities about money to fix some of Michigan’s water problems.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 6, 2023

Under construction since 2015, the 3,400-acre project is spending $350 million for a closed-loop water supply system that collects, treats, and recycles wastewater for over 12,500 residences that are planned, plus commercial and retail spaces. They no longer feature big lakes, irrigated lawns, golf courses, and open drainage canals.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 5, 2022

In 2015, a series of particularly violent typhoons hit the Philippines. Notably, the Philippines Supreme Court has explicitly held the CHR’s jurisdiction is only limited to investigating civil and political rights (see Simon v. Superintendent (2015) (no power to investigate violations of the right to education)). .

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