Clean Energy Law

MARCH 11, 2021

In October 2019, the TCI published a Framework for a Draft Regional Policy Proposal, which described the TCI-P’s key design elements. In December 2019, the TCI issued for public comment a draft MOU that laid out the program’s framework.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 15, 2022

Even if the world were able to shut off all fossil fuels today, we cannot avoid the worst impacts of the climate crisis unless we simultaneously, and without delay , reduce emissions from tropical deforestation and other land use changes. The Amazon and Rio Negro rivers meet in Manaus, Brazil. Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 24, 2021

English banks such as HSBC and Standard Chartered have lent US$5 billion to China’s coal sector in the past two years. One-tenth of the money invested in the Chinese coal sector in the last two years has come from abroad with 48 international banks providing a total of US$21.7 Photo credit: Alamy.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 12, 2024

The applicants sought an injunction declaring that Shell is legally bound to reduce its carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 45% below 2019 levels by 2030. This leads to an important distinction between fossil fuels specifically produced or merely traded by Shell, as discussed in more detail below. Royal Dutch Shell.

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 2, 2021

As long as investors, banks and insurers continue supporting the companies listed on the Global Coal Exit List, it will be impossible to phase out coal in time,” says Heffa Schuecking, director of Urgewald, the German NGO that leads the Coal Exit initiative. Turning coal into another fossil fuel is not a climate-friendly alternative.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 1, 2022

Japan’s dependency on fossil fuel s had been slightly declining until 2010. But the country changed course as a result of the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, which led to the forced shutdown of nuclear power plants and greater reliance on fossil fuels. As a result, Japan’s CO 2 emissions increased, peaking in 2013.

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Law Columbia

JULY 21, 2023

In 2019, for example, the utility company Pacific Gas and Electric Company (“PG&E”) entered what has been called “ the first climate bankruptcy ” after announcing that it faced more than $30 billion in potential liability from a series of devastating fires in northern California that were made far worse by climate change.

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Clean Energy Law

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

After a series of working group meetings on FBMSM in general and warehouses in particular, the SCAQMD released Proposed Rule 2305 in discussion draft form on November 13, 2019. The SCAQMD is requesting stakeholder feedback on the discussion draft rule by December 6, 2019. 20, 2019). [6] Proposed Warehouse ISR. Looking Forward.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

But this announcement was seemingly at odds with another made just three days earlier, when coal minister Pralhad Joshi confirmed that India intends to increase production for the fossil fuel. Fossil fuels remain necessary”, Jairaj says. These updates mean India is well on its way to fulfilling its NDCs.

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Energy and Climate Law

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Introduction On 11 December 2019, the new European Commission presided by Ursula Von der Leyen presented the European Green Deal. Bn from the EU budget and on a European Investment Bank lending of €10 Bn. By Dr. Romain Mauger 1. The aim for the EU is to become climate-neutral by 2050 and this will require massive investments.

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HumanNature

MARCH 11, 2024

First issued by the EIB (European Investment Bank) in 2007 in Sweden, green bonds have grown from $11 billion USD in 2013 to $1 Trillion USD in December 2020 globally. Moreover, such bond prices appear to be highly susceptible to oil movements, being more pronounced when demand for fossil fuel is less, for example during the pandemic years.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Despite the worldwide mobilisation towards the adoption of renewable energy, the Brazilian government continues to promote the use of coal, the most polluting fossil fuel. billion in energy projects in Brazil between 2005 and 2019, according to data from Boston University’s Global Policy Development Center.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 27, 2022

This was followed by a tender issued by the transport ministry in November 2021, which sought a consultant to develop a national electric mobility policy, funded partially by the World Bank and the Kenyan government. According to data from Kenya’s Population and Housing Census , in 2019, 6.3% Photo credit: Alamy.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 28, 2023

The creation of NYCI follows the 2019 passage of the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA), under which New York State’s electricity sector must reach zero emissions by 2040. By 2030, analysts project that emitters will have enough banked allowances to comply with the cap without further reducing emissions.

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A Greener Life

JULY 9, 2021

The other is to improve the energy structure, replacing fossil fuel sources with alternatives. between 2016 and 2019, and total energy consumption also rose far more than permitted by the 13th FYP targets. Inner Mongolia generated more wind energy than any other province in 2019. There were no improvements in 2020.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Website Summary Repsol is a fossil fuel exploration company that evolved from a Spanish state venture that was set up in the 1920s. Image Image Products Oil and gas exploration and production, LNG trading and transportation, Oil refining, Petrochemistry Repsol S.A. Campaigning against oil exploration near the Canary islands.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 19, 2023

The plant was recently reported to have secured financing from the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), China’s largest commercial bank. Pakistan’s energy sector is dominated by fossil fuels. Electricity shortage is the biggest impediment to developing Gwadar,” he said.

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Manning Law

JUNE 8, 2020

Ending fossil fuel subsidies and making renewable energy the future. The World Bank estimates that COVID-19 is likely to cause the first increase in global poverty since 1998. Integrating natural infrastructure with built infrastructure to reduce climate impacts and bring biodiversity back. We make everyone’s lives better.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Lest one thinks this disconnect is a failure of the global climate architecture, the failure lies much closer to home—in the domestic politics in the US and many other countries that continue to favor the interests of the rich and powerful , and fossil fuel companies, at the expense of the health and safety of everyone else and the planet.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 3, 2021

from 1990–2019. Concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere have risen approximately 47 percent since 1750, mostly from the burning of fossil fuels for energy. Strategies for capturing carbon from fossil fuel power plants, to prevent it from entering the atmosphere, have long lingered on the sidelines.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 10, 2022

Clearly the industry, heavily influenced by investors, continues to want to keep oil and natural gas prices high and as the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas reported in a survey of oil companies, they don’t intend to increase output by more than 5 percent this year. Tragedy [Actually, The Company Did Nothing With State Approvals Since 2019.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 27, 2023

The explosion at the Philadelphia Energy Solutions (PES) refinery in June of 2019 and subsequent bankruptcy and decommissioning marked the end of a refinery whose history goes back 150 years and predates the automobile era.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 22, 2022

green banks”). 2019 (for commercial), as well as for such unit of government “to implement a plan for the jurisdiction to achieve full compliance with any [such] building energy code… which plan shall include active training and enforcement programs and measurement of the rate of compliance.”

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Corp Watch

JUNE 7, 2023

Thousands of workers at US factories in Mexico are striking for higher wages Alexia Fernández Campbell | Vox | March 28, 2019 Dozens of workers at one of Coca-Cola’s largest bottling and distribution plants have refused to go to work for almost two months, demanding the same 20 percent increase with a $32,000 peso bonus.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

So does fossil fuel combustion. billion in farm sales in 2019. World Bank. Even with the uncertainty around any individual’s disease, risk factors for nitrate contamination are not difficult to identify collectively. Septic systems, wastewater treatment plants, and lawns play a role. Wilson Center. Quality Unknown.

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Environmental Progress

AUGUST 3, 2020

But in Apocalypse Never I show that, for Malthusians, making the world a “better place” has meant letting the poor starve, keeping poor nations dependent on wood fuel, and diverting World Bank funding from dams, roads, and fertilizer for development to charitable endeavors like solar panels for rural villagers aimed at making poverty sustainable.

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ESA

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The agreement calls for a phase-down of coal but does not call for reductions in fossil fuels. Dozens of nations sought text calling for a phase-out of all fossil fuels, but they were met with stiff resistance from oil-producing countries, including Russia and Saudi Arabia. Apply for the 2023 Katherine S.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Image Image Products Oil / gas exploration and production, natural gas and LNG trading and transportation, oil refining, chemicals, solar and biomass development Protesting Total's role in Burma - Photo Credit TotalOutNow Summary Total is a fossil fuel exploration company.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 8, 2024

Image Image Products Oil / gas exploration and production, natural gas and LNG trading and transportation, oil refining, chemicals, solar and biomass development Protesting Total's role in Burma - Photo Credit TotalOutNow Summary Total is a fossil fuel exploration company.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Image Image Products Oil / gas exploration and production, natural gas and LNG trading and transportation, oil refining, chemicals, solar and biomass development Protesting Total's role in Burma - Photo Credit TotalOutNow Summary Total is a fossil fuel exploration company.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

Image Image Products Oil / gas exploration and production, natural gas and LNG trading and transportation, oil refining, chemicals, solar and biomass development Protesting Total's role in Burma - Photo Credit TotalOutNow Summary Total is a fossil fuel exploration company.

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Image Image Products Oil / gas exploration and production, natural gas and LNG trading and transportation, oil refining, chemicals, solar and biomass development Protesting Total's role in Burma - Photo Credit TotalOutNow Summary Total is a fossil fuel exploration company.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Image Image Products Oil / gas exploration and production, natural gas and LNG trading and transportation, oil refining, chemicals, solar and biomass development Protesting Total's role in Burma - Photo Credit TotalOutNow Summary Total is a fossil fuel exploration company.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Image Image Products Oil / gas exploration and production, natural gas and LNG trading and transportation, oil refining, chemicals, solar and biomass development Protesting Total's role in Burma - Photo Credit TotalOutNow Summary Total is a fossil fuel exploration company.

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Environmental Progress

AUGUST 8, 2020

The central drama of Apocalypse Never is how climate activists and renewables advocates have diverted World Bank funding from cheap and reliable sources of power like hydro-electric dams, which would benefit the book’s main heroine, Bernadette, a small farmer in the Congo.

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Environmental Progress

JULY 29, 2020

By 2019, German household electricity prices were 45 percent higher than the European average. Only nuclear can substitute for fossil fuels while maintaining and increasing levels of energy consumption required for universal human prosperity. It is thus misleading to describe climate change as either a “crisis” or “emergency.”

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

By combining inert nitrogen gas with hydrogen sourced from fossil fuels, two German scientists at the start of the century learned they could “fix” nitrogen from natural gas to produce fertilizers whose provenance previously had been the domain of lightning, legumes, and manure. billion in farm sales in 2019. World Bank.

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