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 Climate law makes emission targets legally binding 2019. trillion tons.]

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 6, 2021

When fully implemented, the Clean Power Plan was intended to cut carbon emissions 30% below the 2005 level by 2030. Compliance was set to begin in 2022, ramping up toward 2030 emission reduction goals. Even without the Clean Power Plan, carbon emissions from power generators fell about 15% from the 2015 level.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 14, 2022

In 2019, it signed an agreement with a Chinese steelmaker to find ways to reduce emissions from steel making. Still, it remains responsible for 31 Gigatons of carbon emissions per year. That would allow the company to disclaim any responsibility for the carbon emissions, while doing nothing to address the problem.

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E2 Law Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Enacted in 2019, the CLCPA codified several robust climate mandates for the State which must be achieved in an accelerated time frame. 6,000 MW of solar by 2025, 9,000 MW of offshore wind by 2035, and 3,000 MW of energy storage by 2030.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 31, 2022

Interim goal of 50% reduction of 2007 GHG emissions by 2030. They’ve reached this interim goal in 2020, with a 52% reduction of GHG emissions from 2007 levels. (4) Energy Mix (2019): [link]. Carbon Reduction Goals: Net-zero carbon monoxide and methane emissions by 2050. Other Carbon Free: 4%.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

With economic growth have come carbon emissions. As of 2016, half of its total emissions are from the power sector, with 20% from industry and 15% from transportation, and. Renewables are relatively small, at only 6%, but growing rapidly, having doubled from 2010 to 2019.

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Law and Environment

JANUARY 29, 2024

Large producers of carbon-based fuels will be required to pay “damages” that reflect each producer’s percentage share of carbon emissions from 2000 through 2018 or 2019 divided by a denominator intended to reflect that state’s expected climate damages. Fundamentally, the legislation is reasonably straightforward.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 19, 2023

That’s why Newsom’s expected to visit a Tesla factory that has pumped out 2 million cars since opening in 2019. Newsom also stops in Hong Kong, the first city in Asia to require businesses to disclose their carbon emissions — similar to SB 253 that he signed this month covering businesses in California.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 2, 2022

Northern Irish Assembly has passed a bill to set a net-zero for energy-related carbon emissions by 2050. In 2019, the city declared a climate emergency. The plan serets interim emissions targets: 55% below 2005 levels by 2030; 65% below by 2035; and 75% below by 2040, toward the ultimate goal of net-zero by 2050.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

It ordered Shell Oil, which is based in the Netherlands, to move rapidly to decarbonize its own operations and avoid selling products that would lead to carbon emissions — natural gas and gasoline, more specifically. Specifically, the court ordered Shell to cut emissions due to its products and operations 45% from 2019 levels by 2030.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 20, 2023

A multi-decade legal history, including four Supreme Court decisions, has led to unimpeachable clarity on this one point: EPA has a statutory obligation to regulate carbon emissions from power plants under Section 111 of the Clean Air Act. EPA ruling, EPA can still establish rigorous carbon emissions standards.

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Climate Change Blawg

OCTOBER 14, 2020

The carbon emissions from heating domestic homes account for around 13% of the UK’s annual carbon emissions. The carbon emissions from heating homes is comparable to the contribution of all petrol and diesel cars in the UK.

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Law and Environment

JUNE 16, 2021

On June 10, 2021, the Transportation Climate Initiative Program (TCI-P) states released a final model rule creating a regional cap-and-trade-program to reduce carbon emissions from the transportation sector. Membership fell to twelve when New Hampshire dropped out in 2019. To date, only Massachusetts and Washington, D.C.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 2, 2021

Judge Larisa Alwin ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45% by 2030 from 2019 levels. “The court orders Royal Dutch Shell, by means of its corporate policy, to reduce its CO2 emissions by 45% by 2030 with respect to the level of 2019 for the Shell group, and the suppliers and customers of the group.”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 26, 2022

Today marks one year since the precedent-setting court ruling in the Netherlands, which ordered Shell to cut its activities’ carbon emissions by 45 percent compared to 2019 levels to align with the Paris climate agreement.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

They gave only around $80 billion in 2019, and world leaders recently announced that this figure is not expected to reach $100 billion until 2023, three years behind schedule. Still, the cost of adaptation will only increase every year that carbon emissions continue unchecked. . “As

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

After a decade of global warming trends, the world experienced the second warmest year on record in 2019. Through the Lancaster County Community Climate Fund , RegenAll is launching an innovative pathway for Lancaster County to achieve carbon neutrality and slow the impacts of climate change on communities.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 18, 2021

In 2019 and again in 2020 , Shell found that CAPP was out of step with Shell’s principles because of lack of support for the Paris Agreement and climate policies such as carbon pricing. and Canada achieving net-zero emissions by 2050. You know what isn’t a pathway to zero emissions? Increasing them a lot.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2021

After an unsuccessful COP in Madrid (2019), as a Bangladeshi citizen (a country often referred to as “ground zero” for its climate vulnerability) I had to wait another two years to renegotiate issues that were blocked and left unresolved at COP25.

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Paris Agreement 2019 Carbon Emissions Climate Change 210

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

More than 20,000 Americans died prematurely in 2015 from tailpipe emissions, according to a 2019 study. Writ large, transportation is responsible for 29 percent of US carbon emissions—more than any other sector—and car and truck emissions today represent 81 percent of the US transportation sector’s global warming pollution.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 18, 2022

Photo credit: Copernicus Sentinel data (2019), processed by ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 The C3S director Carlo Buontempo said, “These events are a stark reminder of the need to change our ways, take decisive and effective steps toward a sustainable society and work towards reducing net carbon emissions”. By Anders Lorenzen.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

In its Nationally Determined Contributions ( NDCs ), updated in 2022, India has made three major promises: a 45% reduction in its carbon emissions intensity (CO2 emissions per unit of electricity) based on 2005 levels, by 2030; 50% of installed electricity coming from non-fossil-fuel sources by 2030; and national carbon neutrality by 2070.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 2, 2021

The 2021 date is almost as early as the 2019 one (the 2020 date was pushed back due to COVID-19 induced lockdowns), showcasing the increasing impact of humanity on Earth’s biocapacity. In 2021 the carbon footprint of transportation will remain lower than pre-pandemic levels. Image credit: Earth Overshoot Day. Who is responsible.

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Clean Energy Law

MARCH 11, 2021

In December 2018, after having successfully reduced greenhouse gas emissions from the power sector by 53.3%, a majority of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) jurisdictions announced plans to design a program to address carbon emissions from the combustion of transportation fuels.

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Frontiers

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Every five years, they are to issue so-called ‘nationally determined contributions’ (NDCs), describing their actions to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and adapt to climate change impacts. This success is an important achievement, as the OCO missions were designed to measure carbon emissions at much larger spatial scales.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 13, 2021

In 2017 (before the Ford government) emissions were 156 Megatonnes (MT). In 2018 emissions rose 5 MT to 163 MT and in 2019, the most recent year of data, the emissions held steady at 163 MT. During this time, emissions rose overall in Canada – from 716 MT in 2017 to 730 MT in 2019. MT in 2019.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 29, 2022

This switch to solar at schools significantly reduces carbon emissions and creates community anchors for climate education, awareness, and action. K-12 schools more than doubled between 2014-2019, yet less than six percent of all schools were using solar power, according to Generation180 research. Solar on U.S.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

So after returning home, he launched Dat Bike in 2019. The US also works with electric vehicle manufacturers VinBus and VinFast, as well as Vietnam’s largest electric utility, to support the country’s goal of achieving net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. Above, a VinFast vehicle charges in Quang Ninh, Vietnam, in 2021.

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Our Environment

MAY 21, 2021

degree warming by the end of the century and to minimise the effects of climate change, cities need to be at net-zero carbon by 2050 (Coalitions for Urban Transition, 2019). Particularly in areas of the Global South, up to 70% of toxic air pollution is attributed to cars (Coalition for Urban Transition, 2019). Foster, 2020.Urban

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 13, 2022

“This collaboration with Constellation is an exciting next step toward meeting our environmental goals of reaching 100% renewable purchased electricity by 2025 and reducing carbon emissions and energy use 75% by 2035.” This has been achieved through a variety of strategic energy, sustainability, and real estate optimization plans.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

He was on to something And the lobsterman was correct: we can blame carbon emissions for ocean acidification and warming in the Gulf of Maine. Local voices forge Maine solutions Science tells us that because of decades of delay we must now simultaneously reduce emissions and adapt to the changing climate.

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Earthava

JULY 27, 2021

In fact, the International Energy Agency reported that around 3 million new electric cars were registered in 2020, which is a 41% increase from 2019. That’s not surprising as more people are looking for eco-friendly transport solutions, such as electric scooters, bicycles, and electric bicycles, to reduce their carbon footprint.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. The Oil Spills of Ogoniland Amelia Collins | The Ecologist | May 17, 2019 Oil still contaminates the Niger Delta, over two decades after Shell was first called out for its destruction of the land.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 26, 2024

In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. The Oil Spills of Ogoniland Amelia Collins | The Ecologist | May 17, 2019 Oil still contaminates the Niger Delta, over two decades after Shell was first called out for its destruction of the land.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 25, 2024

In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. The Oil Spills of Ogoniland Amelia Collins | The Ecologist | May 17, 2019 Oil still contaminates the Niger Delta, over two decades after Shell was first called out for its destruction of the land.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. The Oil Spills of Ogoniland Amelia Collins | The Ecologist | May 17, 2019 Oil still contaminates the Niger Delta, over two decades after Shell was first called out for its destruction of the land.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

On September 1, the Independent Regulatory Review Commission voted 3 to 2 to approve the final Environmental Quality Board regulation to reduce carbon emissions from power plants. Wolf directed DEP to prepare the regulation in October 2019. IRRC Commissioner John Soroko first made a motion to disapprove the regulation.

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