Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Before the Paris Agreement was signed in 2015, the world was on track for a catastrophic four degrees of warming. For example, at COP28, for the first time , all of the countries agreed to a transition off of fossil fuels, a tripling of renewable energy and a double in energy efficiency. What comes out of COP?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

(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. Despite the recognized need for investment, progress is slow I wrote a blog last June that detailed many of the initiatives underway to ramp up transmission system investments.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 2, 2023

At the global level, however, Germany has its own claim to a leadership role, particularly in its early support for renewable energy. Although its track record has some complexities, this timeline of German actions shows just its early and sustained attention to clean energy policy: 1990. Renewables are 6% of power.

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Energy and Climate Law

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Until June 2021 the new target shall be implemented into EU legislation via the following : revising and expanding the EU Emissions Trading System; adapting the Effort Sharing Regulation and the framework for land use emissions; reinforcing energy efficiency and renewable energy policies; and strengthening CO2 standards for road vehicles.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

We need a major buildout of renewable energy. But if we lower demand for energy, including by creating more efficient transportation alternatives, this becomes a less challenging mountain to climb. UCS The future is now A less car-dependent future is no pipe dream. State and federal policy supported these local initiatives.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Solar panels generated almost 4 percent of electricity in the US in 2021, up from less than 1 percent in 2015. Almost half of all new energy capacity added to the US grid in 2021 came from solar. In some places that number is much higher; for example, 17% of California’s electricity generation came from solar in 2021.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 16, 2021

Faulconer has taken credit for the passage of the city’s 2015 Climate Action Plan, which requires the city to cut its greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2035. He seems to favor renewable energy. His website spotlights energy shortages and says: “We will solve this problem for all Californians. Sam Gallucci.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2022

It’s also difficult to ensure that the right steps are being taken at the right time – for instance, when there’s a surge in electric vehicles, that there will be enough charging stations and enough renewable energy to keep them going.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 4, 2024

After decades of these negotiations, the Paris Agreement was adopted in 2015 and ratified in 2016 (to read more about this history check out my peer-reviewed research here ). That information can help as we work together to reverse these dangerous trends and build a better future based on clean renewable energy.

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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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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 26, 2024

In 2013, I returned to university to complete a master’s degree with a research focus on energy transition. 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. Why are some utilities public, some private?

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 18, 2025

With the coldest weather since 2015 moving into the PJM footprint, electricity demand on Tuesday and Wednesday is expected to approach PJMs all-time winter peak of 143,295 MW, set on Feb. Cold Weather Alert PJM has issued a Cold Weather Alert for the entire PJM footprint for Jan.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 1, 2024

Few companies did so, however, posing great risk to investors and the economy: A 2015 Union of Concerned Scientists report on the threat to oil refineries from rising sea levels found that investors and taxpayers will likely bear the costs of future disasters if companies fail to disclose and manage these risks.

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Law Columbia

MAY 23, 2022

We are thrilled to welcome Matthew Eisenson to the Sabin Center, where his work will focus on leading and expanding the Renewable Energy Legal Defense Initiative (RELDI), which uses legal research and engagement to support siting utility- and community-scale renewable energy facilities and associated transmission and storage equipment.

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A Greener Life

JULY 30, 2021

Some might see Germany as a climate leader already with its huge focus on building clean renewable energy capacity through its ‘energiwende ’ flagship initiative. While Germany has had a huge focus on renewable energy this has done little to reduce its reliance on fossil fuels. In Germany, fossil fuels are king.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 22, 2022

A report commissioned by the Ontario Power Authority (now the Independent Electricity System Operator) identified 64 potential offshore wind power sites in the Great Lakes that could produce nearly 35,000 MW of electricity which is 50 per cent more than our current energy demand. As the U.S. And without the pollution that gas plants cause.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

Last year, South Korea strengthened its renewable portfolio standard to 25% renewables by 2034 The government hopes to reduce electricity consumption 14% by 2030. Since 2015, South Korea has had an emissions trading system that covers the power sector and industrial sources.

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Environment + Energy Leader

APRIL 21, 2023

L&G and NTR have worked together since 2015 when L&G became a cornerstone investor in NTR's first two funds. The post LGIM & NTR Secure Major Financial Commitments from Investors for Clean Power Fund appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The goal of impact investing, meanwhile, is to help a business or organization support a specific social benefit, such as expanding women’s education or developing renewable energy resources. A good example would be screening out tobacco company stock. ESG disclosures vary from company to company.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Launched in December 2021, the USAID Southeast Asia Smart Power Program (SPP) aims to mobilize $2 billion for clean energy projects across the region. In June, SPP issued a $3 million grant to the ASEAN Centre for Energy (ACE) to increase renewable energy in the region’s power systems. Japan and other partners.

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HumanNature

MARCH 11, 2024

The Sustainable Development Goals outlined by the UN Foundation in 2015 not only provide a guideline for an ideal future, but also illustrate the multi-pronged dilemma of emerging economies. Developing countries need renewable energy investments of about US$1.7 ” Energy Policy 140 (2020): 111428. ” (2021).

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Physics World

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Gates admits he flew into the 2015 Paris climate conference by private jet and wolfs down his share of Seattle beef burgers. The book offers a pragmatic look at renewable energy and climate mitigation options from someone who profoundly understands how to innovate for mass markets.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 17, 2024

Alberta: Speak Up For a SAFE Climate: Take Action Here How Climate Action Makes Life More Affordable Renewable energy, including solar and wind power, is much cheaper and less polluting than burning fossil fuels such as natural gas, oil and coal. The research was published in Nature in April of this year. Shifting that $4.8

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Legal Planet

JULY 5, 2023

According to the Center for International Environmental Law as of April 2023, the World Bank “has financed and incentivized up to $165 billion in fossil fuel investments since the Paris Agreement was signed [in 2015].”

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Physics World

JULY 28, 2021

From 2013–2015, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin, US. She leads SciBridge, an award-winning international project at NC State that develops renewable energy research and education collaborations between universities in Africa and the United States.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 2, 2023

The IFO said this was the fourth consecutive quarter in which production did not increase year-over-year and represents the strongest year-over-year decline in quarterly production since monthly production data have been published (2015). The IFO reported Lycoming County saw a 12.4%

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Legal Planet

JUNE 1, 2022

That plant, approved by the Coastal Commission 15 years ago, commenced operation in 2015 and now provides a significant fraction of the San Diego metropolitan area’s freshwater supply. Third, desal critics often cite the fact that the desalination process is energy-intensive. That’s true.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 11, 2023

RBC talks a big game about climate action and “net zero” but since the Paris Agreement was signed in 2015, RBC has poured nearly $350 billion dollars into climate-destroying fossil fuel companies. In 2022, RBC provided more financing to oil and gas companies than any other bank in the world. What strategies do these villains use?

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Indonesia’s government looks at coal as the cheapest energy source, but ignores the fact that continuing to build these coal plants – and in particular mine-mouth plants – clashes with the country’s commitments under the Paris Agreement. These two obstacles could become opportunities for the development of non-coal energy such as geothermal.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Representatives from civil society, non-governmental organizations and the private sector gathered alongside governmental representatives to influence decisions and advance contributions toward the goals of the Paris Agreement of 2015. I was joined by Ocean Conservancy colleagues working to advance ocean-climate action. degrees Celsius.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 22, 2024

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Edouard Stenger

JANUARY 10, 2022

My years in Seattle – 2015 / 2018 – were even more interesting. My five-month internship as an energy advisor for the healthcare sector taught me so much. I am now much more knowledgeable about green buildings and how renewable energies can be harnessed.

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Ocean Conservancy

AUGUST 23, 2022

Offshore wind energy is a growing source of renewable energy in Europe and East Asia, and it is taking off along U.S. But there is another renewable energy source just over the horizon—wave energy. What is wave energy? What does wave energy look like? Since 2015, the U.S.

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Environmental Progress

APRIL 20, 2021

Advocates of renewable energy have argued since the 1970s that the variable, weather-dependent nature of sunlight and wind is a modest obstacle at best to relying on 100 percent renewables. Some have argued that weather-dependent energies would, paradoxically, make electricity even more reliable.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 11, 2022

They added that due to the increase in climate-friendly policies and laws we have seen enhanced energy efficiency, reduced deforestation rates and accelerated the deployment of renewable energy. The report Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of climate change looked at a variety of pathways for increased climate actions.

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A Greener Life

JULY 9, 2021

It also missed energy consumption and intensity targets in the 13th Five Year Plan (2015-2020). The National Development and Reform Commission’s Department of Resource Conservation and Environmental Protection said in a statement that energy intensity increased 9.5% Can the coal producer go renewable?

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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. Some countries’ NDCs focus on reducing heat-trapping emissions if they are high emitters, but NDCs can also request aid for implementing their adaptation plans and technological assistance for helping with their renewable energy transitions.

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