Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The needs are immense and crushing for low-income nations already reeling from billions of dollars of damages from extreme floods, drought, sea level rise and other climate impacts, as well as a human toll that is incalculable. Committing to tripling renewable energy and doubling energy efficiency globally by 2030.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

This is defined as the ability or desire to sustain a resource at a certain level and based on three scientific principles: increased dependence on renewable energy, biodiversity, and chemical cycling. We are already seeing the depletion of the ice caps and rising sea levels. It covers the following areas.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 2, 2022

UCS also supports a provision in the rule requiring companies to disclose the role that carbon offsets or renewable energy credits play in their climate-related business strategy. We know from scrutinizing dozens of corporate emissions-reduction pledges and plans that they often rely heavily on these mechanisms.

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Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 30, 2019

Back to North Carolina developments in late 2018: Executive Order on Climate Change and Clean Energy: On October 29, 2018, N.C. Governor Roy Cooper issued an executive order on climate change and clean energy. Reduce energy use per square foot in state-owned buildings by 40% from 2002-2003 levels.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Scavello Introduces Bill Authorizing Community Solar Projects; $2 Billion Worth Of Projects Waiting For It To Pass -- Business, Environment, Energy Groups Praise Introduction Of Bipartisan Bills Increasing Solar Energy Mandate From 0.5% Wolf, AG Shapiro To Support A Total Ban On Road Dumping Of Oil & Gas Drilling Wastewater; 240.4

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

was projected to cost $250 million; however, when it ultimately opened in 2015, the final cost totaled over $1 billion. This means the funding is based on the desalination plant’s revenues into the far future, which are contingent on water and energy markets, regulatory changes, and the environment’s changing baseline. In 2004, the.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

A federal bankruptcy court in Missouri enjoined San Mateo and Marin Counties and the City of Imperial Beach (the plaintiffs) from pursuing their climate change lawsuits against Peabody Energy Corporation (Peabody). The Minister did not review or revise that target following the 2014 issuance of the IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 7, 2019

On the merits, the court found that the respondents had taken the hard look required by SEQRA, rejecting arguments that they failed to consider (1) the New York State Energy Plan and its renewable energy target; (2) the pending solar project; (3) the impact on fossil fuel emissions; and (4) global climate change. California v.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

An Oregon Circuit Court set aside the Oregon Secretary of State’s decision to reject two clean energy ballot initiatives and allowed the measures to be processed and circulated for the November 2020 election. Lawsuit Sought Critical Habitat Designation for Green Sea Turtles Whose Habitat Is Threatened by Sea Level Rise and Other Factors.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Cop stands for conference of the parties under the UNFCCC, and the annual meetings have swung between fractious and soporific, interspersed with moments of high drama and the occasional triumph ( the Paris agreement in 2015 ) and disaster (Copenhagen in 2009). Why do we need a Cop – don’t we already have the Paris agreement? An increase of 1.5C

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

“There is, in fact, substantial scientific evidence that there’s a strong link between global warming and heat waves and coastal flooding from sea-level rise,” I said. Later in the hour, Tillerson told Rose that the federal government should end subsidies for renewable energy. “I

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 17, 2025

Mark Carney, a former governor of the Bank of England who was recently elected Canadian prime minister, laid out three principal types of risk that climate change poses to financial stability in a 2015 speech to insurance executives. Ten years later, that hard evidence has continued to mount.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2018

The court stated that the issue arose “because a necessary and critical element of the hydrological damage caused by defendants’ alleged conduct is the rising sea level along the Pacific coast and in the San Francisco Bay, both of which are navigable waters of the United States.” 34-2015-80002005 (Cal. judgment Feb. BP p.l.c. ,

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

EPA of a 2015 rule barring replacement of ozone-depleting substances with hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which are powerful greenhouse gases. Circuit vacated the 2015 rule to the extent that it prohibited continued use of HFCs by companies that previously switched to HFCs from an ozone-depleting substance. In Mexichem , the D.C.

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