HumanNature

MAY 2, 2025

Candidate in the Department of Political Science at Colorado State University Despite being one of the lowest contributors to greenhouse gas emissions that are causing climate change, Africa has experienced widespread losses and damages attributed to human-induced climate change. R., & Ayal, D. Evidence from various African regions.

Climate Change

Law Columbia

JANUARY 24, 2025

Furthermore, in some cases, refusing to allow a project to go ahead in Ireland may simply result in the project being relocated to another country with lower environmental standards, thereby doing nothing to reduce overall global greenhouse gas emissions.

Renewable Energy

Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 7, 2025

In 2019, noticing AI was straining land and electricity resources, Singapore imposed a moratorium on new data centre construction. It will take robust policies to make sure we harness AI’s benefits while minimizing its environmental costs. Singapore used this pause to develop comprehensive sustainability standards.

Renewable Energy

A Greener Life

JULY 3, 2025

This rapid growth plays a vital role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. During severe Mekong River droughts in 2016 and 2019, upstream emergency water releases helped ease shortages downstream. In 2024, global renewable electricity capacity expanded by 15.1%, with China accounting for over 60% of new additions. In 2016 alone, 12.65

Clean Energy

Scientific American

JUNE 17, 2025

The fashion industry is also responsible for up to 10 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions—more than the aviation and shipping industries combined. The problem becomes even worse when you consider that most clothes make a quick trip to the landfill, where they’ll emit greenhouse gases such as methane.

Upcycling

HumanNature

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Beginning with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) release of the report Livestocks Long Shadow in 2006, the totality of the contribution of cattle to livelihoods, food security, and ecosystem services has been questioned when contrasted with their contribution to greenhouse gas emissions and the environmental equilibrium.

Climate Change

Law Columbia

APRIL 24, 2025

Their claim rested on Swedens failure to calculate its fair share of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and to adopt emissions reductions in line with best available science. million tons of CO 2 -equivalent between 2019 and 2030, including 2.2-3.1 The applicants called for annual reductions of 6.4-9.4

Climate Change

Circle of Blue

JUNE 24, 2025

The new direction is driven by a self-preservation instinct – “a policy revolt,” Matthews said – among the countries who formerly sat the bench as the world’s biggest carbon polluters debated the boundaries of greenhouse gas emission limits. I’m not aware of it having been used before around 2019. BW : Water? water resilience?

Climate Change

Law Columbia

MAY 30, 2025

Last Thursday, May 22, the New York State Court of Appeals the States highest court issued a decision upholding New York Citys Local Law 97 of 2019. Local Law 97 is one of the countrys most ambitious municipal climate policies, requiring the Citys largest buildings to comply with increasingly stringent greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions limits.

Law

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2025

from 2019 to 2020 and 44.4% Reduction Strategies Strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from electricity generation offer the greatest potential for decarbonization through 2050, followed by emissions from industrial sources, transportation, and buildings. from 2005 to 2020.

Climate Change

A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

According to the UNs 2024 Emission Gap Report , 107 countries, covering approximately 82% of global greenhouse gas emissions, had adopted net-zero pledges as of June last year. Researchers have calculated that, in 2019, the total scope 1 carbon emissions of Chinas listed firms accounted for 18.3% of national emissions.

Carbon Emissions

A Greener Life

JULY 6, 2025

These clean energy technologies are pivotal to Brazil’s goals of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and meeting its international climate commitments. In 2019, the Brumadinho dam disaster killed 270 people, raising concerns about mining safety. In 2024, Brazil’s installed capacity for wind power reached approximately 22.6

2025

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

These settlements are the latest in EPA’s urgent efforts to limit the greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change and hold corporate polluters accountable for jeopardizing public health.” The EPA identified the alleged violations through field investigations conducted in 2018 and 2019.

Clean Air Act

HumanNature

DECEMBER 31, 2024

2019/02/02;393(10170). Plant factories versus greenhouses: Comparison of resource use efficiency. Willett W, Rockstrm J, Loken B, et al. Food in the Anthropocene: the EATLancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems. The Lancet. Graamans L, Baeza E, Dobbelsteen Avd, Tsafaras I, Stanghellini C. Agricultural Systems.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Pennsylvania shale gas producers have already said they have a duty to supply China-- our economic and military competitor-- with natural gas to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The new analysis will replace the economic and environmental analyses used by the DOE for application decisions, which were published in 2018 and 2019, respectively.

Natural Gas

Legal Planet

MAY 1, 2025

Bush refuses to regulate greenhouse gases, reneging on a campaign pledge to do so. Instead, firms seem to have been blas. unemployment. After: 6.1%. April 2007. Supreme Court reverses Bush. Before: 4.4%. After: 4.4%. Obama Clean Power Plan Before: 5.0 %. After: 5.1%. Change: +0.1%.

Regulations

Law Columbia

MAY 22, 2025

On March 12, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin announced plans to reconsider EPAs 2009 endangerment finding for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, along with all regulations and actions that rely on the finding. The Supreme Court explicitly held in Massachusetts v.

2009

Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Japan ) and a second in Yokosuka in 2019 ( Yokosuka Climate Case ). In the 2019 case, the judgments focused on the procedural aspect of the replacement of the coal-fired power plant and discussion of the climate issues was limited.

2025

Law Columbia

MARCH 19, 2025

In addition, if profits can be maximized by deforestation or releasing methane or other greenhouse gases as well, then profits must again take precedence. This means that the leaders of U.S. More on the Maximization Model of fiduciary duty in a moment. states allow for a more moderate and permissive interpretation of fiduciary duties.

Law

Law Columbia

DECEMBER 23, 2024

At issue in the case is whether New York Citys Local Law 97 of 2019 , the Citys building performance standards aimed at reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from its largest buildings, is preempted by New York States Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA). City of New York. Glen Oaks Village Owners v.

Law

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 28, 2025

Original violations issued July 29, 2019. Shale Gas Casing/Cementing Failures Chesapeake Appalachia LLC - Violations Ongoing for 72 Months June 11, 2025 inspection of the shale gas wells McGraw 5H and McGraw N WYO 1H in Washington Township, Wyoming County for defective casing/cement. Violations Continued. Wells will continue to be monitored.

2025

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 1, 2024

1 Electricity Price Changes; Rates Will Vary From 8.4% Decrease To 31.2% Million Trail Grant From DEP Abandoned Mine Land Economic Revitalization Program -- Brodhead Watershed Association Protecting Clean Water Together: Who's In Charge Of Your Water? 14 - Brook Trout In Our Native Waters [PaEN] -- Pennsylvania Forest Seminar Webinar Dec.

Conservation

Legal Planet

MARCH 19, 2025

A Trump executive order directed EPA to consider reopening its finding that greenhouse gases cause harmful climate change despite hundreds if not thousands of scientific papers supporting the finding. The climate for science in America was bad in Trump’s first term, as I wrote in a 2019 post. Kennedy, Jr., Download as PDF

Climate Change

Acoel

JANUARY 17, 2025

The Climate Superfund Act seeks to establish a vaguely analogous Superfund program to transfer the costs of addressing climate change from taxpayers and individuals onto the companies that have contributed most significantly to the buildup of climate change-driving greenhouse gases.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Because of backsliding on the energy transition, increased greenhouse gas emissions and resulting harm from climate change will accelerate, with devastating impacts in the United States and around the globe. This trend of increased fossil fuel output is expected to continue under Trump so long as demand remains robust.

2025

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 24, 2025

These investments are geared more toward increasing oil extraction than reducing emissions, as well as hoodwinking investors into believing fossil fuel companies can zero out their greenhouse gas emissions without decreasing production. million households for a year.

Fossil Fuels

Law Columbia

MARCH 11, 2025

In contrast, several States questioned the applicability of human rights law or contended that they do not have obligations under human rights law to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and ensure the protection of the climate system. degree Celsius threshold.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 5, 2025

The 2009 endangerment finding on climate emissions is the underlying basis for EPA’s regulatory responsibility for taking actions to address greenhouse gas pollution. Source: EPA ) This latest attack on vehicle standards specifically covers EPA’s greenhouse gas standards for cars and commercial medium and heavy-duty trucks.

Electricity

Environment + Energy Leader

MARCH 8, 2023

CPIPG hopes to reduce the intensity of its greenhouse gas emissions by 32.4% by 2030, compared to the 2019 baseline. The post CPI Property Group Secures $100m in Funding to Combat Greenhouse Gases appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

Greenhouse

Environment + Energy Leader

MARCH 10, 2023

Cardinal Health has set greenhouse gas emissions goals, vowing to limit its Scopes 1 and 2 emissions by 50% by 2030, using 2019 as its baseline. The post Cardinal Health Vows to Cut Greenhouse Gases by 50% by 2030 ? appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

2030

Real Climate

JULY 10, 2022

Step 1: There is a natural greenhouse effect. Thus there must be a large amount of IR absorbed by the atmosphere (around 158 W/m 2 ) – a number that would be zero in the absence of any greenhouse substances. Step 2: Trace gases contribute to the natural greenhouse effect. The Earth’s Energy Budget (NASA).

Radiation

Real Climate

AUGUST 12, 2021

The cause of our changing climate is the increase in atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations that we have released into the air. Carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) is the most important greenhouse gas that we have added to the atmosphere, however, some of it has been absorbed by land and oceans.

Atmosphere

Physics World

MARCH 10, 2022

Unfortunately, they are manufactured from fossil resources using highly energy-intensive techniques that release hazardous waste and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. As the climate crisis intensifies, researchers are seeking alternative means to lessen the climate impact of producing these commodities.

Greenhouse

Frontiers

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Deforestation fires in Brazil and Indonesia accounted for 3% and 7%, respectively, of the planet’s total greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) in 2019 and 2020, finds a new study in Frontiers in Climate. In Brazil, a total of 11,088 km 2 of forest were destroyed from August 2019 to July 2020. gigatons CO2e in 2019 and 1.89

Greenhouse

Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

A friend asked me if a discussion paper published on Statistics Norway’s website, ‘ To what extent are temperature levels changing due to greenhouse gas emissions? ’, was purposely timed for the next climate summit ( COP28 ). I don’t know the answer to his question. But this discussion paper is problematic for sure.

Sea Level

Legal Planet

JANUARY 2, 2023

In a 2019 scenario exercise examining governance responses to four scenarios of unauthorized SAI deployment, the scenario of a widely distributed grassroots effort using weather balloons was the only one the expert participants rejected as pure political symbolism, unable to achieve a meaningful climate impact.

Cooling

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 23, 2023

California has done well in terms of total emission reductions – about a 10% reduction from 2009 to 2019. Electric power related emissions went down about 40% from 2009 to 2019. Total direct transportation emissions in 2019 were about the same as those a decade earlier. What’s the Overall Verdict?

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