2016 Carbon Emissions Government Politics 
Legal Planet
FEBRUARY 21, 2024
2016 SB 32. Required zero carbon emissions from power grid by 2045. Required net zero emissions by 2045 and an 85% reduction in carbon emissions (not counting offsets). Bush torpedoed climate action by the federal government early in his administration. Renewable energy target raised to 50% by 2030.
Legal Planet
OCTOBER 2, 2023
The Federal Cabinet adopts its first climate target, a 25-30% cut in carbon emissions by 2005 under 1987 levels. Note: the estimates of 1990 emissions that I found are not entirely consistent, with one estimate closer to 1.2 Government adopts a sector-by-sector plan to reach 2050 climate goals. trillion tons.]
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Legal Planet
MAY 16, 2023
On a per capita basis, Australia’s carbon emissions are even higher than the United States. In the past two years, however, the things have started trending upward after years of inaction by conservative governments. As in the United States, state governments made some effort to pick up the slack. As in the U.S.,
Circle of Blue
AUGUST 9, 2021
Bernal was politically-minded from a young age. But what galvanized her political consciousness were the Standing Rock protests, a sustained resistance movement of Native American communities against the Dakota Access oil pipeline, beginning in 2016. This nexus motivates Bernal to emphasize water rights in her activism.
Circle of Blue
MARCH 1, 2022
Temperatures on this day in July 2016 exceeded 110 degrees Fahrenheit. Vulnerability is higher in high-poverty areas, in countries with poor government, and in farming and fishing communities that are more exposed to climate change. Scientific body warns of ‘rapidly closing window’ for action. Carl Ganter/Circle of Blue.
A Greener Life
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
President-elect Gabriel Boric’s new government must address issues of decarbonisation, water crisis and lithium nationalisation, all while rewriting the country’s constitution. In our government, it will be a priority to avoid this destruction and to have development that is compatible with the environment.”. By Francisco Parra Galaz
Union of Concerned Scientists
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
In contrast to civil, political, and economic rights, cultural rights have been side-lined and neglected in dialogues about climate policy and human rights. It called for compensation from the government, and for Australia to take more aggressive measures to prevent climate change at the national and international levels.
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