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Climate leadership is now in Asia

Edouard Stenger

China’s coal consumption declined over three consecutive years (2013 to 2016), and a continued slow decline is expected. This amounts to over 115,000 new electric buses just in 2016 , an increase by a factor 70 in just three years! Recently India has unveiled working on having only electric cars on the roads by 2030.

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Using the Free Market to Affect Change: An Argument for Environmental Taxes

Vermont Law

to reducing their carbon emissions. which will implement national standards to govern carbon pollution from power plants. Two steps forward, one step back: In February 2016, the Supreme Court issued a. Two steps forward, one step back: In February 2016, the Supreme Court issued a. social cost of carbon.

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Banks Continue to Prop Up the Fossil Fuel Industry

Union of Concerned Scientists

The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warns that all scenarios to meet the Paris Agreement ’s targets for holding planetary temperatures under 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit from pre-industrial levels require “rapid and deep and, in most cases, immediate greenhouse gas emissions reductions in all sectors this decade.”

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Energy news as COP23 is taking place in Germany

Edouard Stenger

Meanwhile, many forget that the flip side of local air pollution is global climate change. We have seen it many times over, pollution from our air, water and soil is killing nine million people every year. In 2016, the world added 138.5 Solving one will solve the other. trillion USD per year (12.6

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July 2017 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

These potential intervenors alleged that the additional emissions during the stay period would harm their interest in protecting their residents from the effects of air pollution and climate change. 451962/2016 (N.Y. The court indicated that the attorney general had broad power to propound the interrogatories.

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February 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

The modified rule would have applied nationwide, with exceptions for Mexico’s three largest cities, where air pollution is of particular concern. UN Human Rights Committee Views Adopted on Teitiota Communication , CCPR/C/127/D/2728/2016 (UN Human Rights Committee). Total (Nanterre District Court).

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The Trump Watch: What Does the New Administration Portend for the Environment?

Vermont Law

As CEO of Exxon Mobil, the world’s largest publicly-traded oil business, Tillerson’s 2016 compensation was $24.3 in domestic or international efforts to reduce carbon emissions. Such paltry figures, though, amount to pocket change for the future Secretary of State. An important aspect of the U.S.

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