Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Methane is responsible for 30 percent of current global warming and is 80 times more powerful than carbon dioxide over a 20 year period. Given its high potency and short atmospheric lifespan, lowering methane emissions could prevent up to 0.3°C C of warming by 2050.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

One of the top agenda items at the 27 th annual UN Conference of the Parties (COP27) climate meeting in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt—now in its second week—is how to implement the Global Methane Pledge launched at last year’s COP26 negotiations in Glasgow, Scotland. But its short lifetime in the atmosphere is also a reason for hope.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 4, 2024

By Anders Lorenzen The emissions from methane , a powerful greenhouse gas (GHG) with 80 times the warming potential of carbon dioxide (CO2) rose in 2023 despite several pledges and initiatives to reduce emissions. Graph credit: IEA.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 4, 2021

In recent years, The Netherlands has become the leading site of climate change litigation. What’s most remarkable is that the decision calls for a 45% reduction of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions–of not only its own but also those of its customers–within less than a decade. Contrary to expectations (including my own!),

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

When it comes to climate action, it can be difficult to understand what makes a strong climate plan that puts us on a pathway to zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions – and what new policies and tools are actually dangerous distractions from real solutions. They call this Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage (CCUS).

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Clean Energy Law

JUNE 8, 2022

Assembly Bill 32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, requires CARB to develop and update every five years a scoping plan that describes the approach California will take to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to achieve the goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. Climate Strategies.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The bankruptcies were set in motion even before 2020. A 2020 study found that Native American households’ median energy burden was 45 percent higher than non-Hispanic White households, while Black households’ median energy burden was 43 percent higher and Hispanic households’ burden was 20 percent higher. There’s a better way forward.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Countries across Africa could lose 14% of their per capita GDP to climate change by 2050 and 34% by 2100, even if average global warming is held to 1.5°C, C, according to a report released this morning at this year’s UN climate conference, COP 27 , in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. Photo credit: Anouk Delafortrie / Twitter.

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HumanNature

APRIL 14, 2022

But one of the main reasons that drought is getting worse over time is simply climate change. In general, increased carbon dioxide from human activities will lead to higher temperatures. Losses of water from the soil and plants will lead to immediate losses of moisture to the atmosphere. Climate change 2014.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Swiss company Climeworks has opened the world’s largest plant that will directly capture CO2 from the atmosphere. Climeworks says that Orca is the world’s first and largest climate-positive direct air carbon capture and storage plant. These units are powerful and compact, with a minimal physical footprint.

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Greenbuilding Law

MAY 1, 2022

But make no mistake, the larger issue is the regulation for the first time of GHGs (including carbon) which will literally change the structure of the global economy, our political order, market capitalism and even our biological selves.”. Simply put, gases that trap heat in the atmosphere (. emission trends.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Four important global reports released in the last two days set up a deeply sobering context for the upcoming annual international climate talks in Egypt, also called COP27. Source: UN Climate Change 2022 NDC Synthesis Report. Source: UN Climate Change 2022 NDC Synthesis Report. The UNEP Emissions Gap Report.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The suit claims that BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil, Shell, and the American Petroleum Institute misled the public despite clear knowledge that their products cause climate change. For more than 50 years , the fossil fuel industry has obstructed meaningful climate action. at UMass Amherst.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The 2020 Maine Fishermen’s Forum was the last conference I and many others attended before the pandemic shutdown. The common enemy explained—and it’s NOT Offshore Wind The common enemy is the oil and gas industry because of their role in climate impacts.

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Global Green

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Ultimately, the message conveyed by Moore is renewable technology is not enough to save our planet from climate change and the only way forward is for the human race to slow down. Over the quarter of 2020, up to 47% of the electricity demand in the UK was met by renewable energy sources. How green are renewables? Solar and wind.

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Our Environment

MAY 21, 2021

A sign surrounded by flames warning the public about COVID-19 near Lake Berryessa in Napa, California on the 18th of August 2020. [1] August and September of 2020 will be forever etched into the memories of Californians as devastating wildfires burnt out of control and destroyed more than 4.2 2] 2020 Incident Archive, 2020 Fire Season.(2021).CAL

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

This shift is good news because tackling methane is crucial to the fight against climate change due to its significantly higher global warming potential than CO2, the disposal of relatively cheap methods of controlling emissions, and its short atmospheric lifespan. Notwithstanding, COP’s outcomes are still important.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 1, 2022

Two reports published in the US look seriously at the practicalities and responsibilities of altering the ocean to tackle the climate crisis. It’s now widely acknowledged that to avoid catastrophic climate change we’ll need to physically remove CO2 from the atmosphere.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JANUARY 17, 2024

from Chapter 4 of the Fifth National Climate Assessment The Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5) was released on November 14, 2023. As those paying attention to agriculture know, climate impacts have become increasingly apparent since the last assessment was published in 2018.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The emissions don’t lie: Shell’s flagship LNG project will add 14 million tonnes of greenhouse gas pollution to the atmosphere every year, which is the equivalent of adding over 3 million gas-powered cars. She was a board member of the pro-oil Fraser Institute from 2017-2020. million gas cars.

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HumanNature

MARCH 31, 2021

Guest Post By Erin Boedicker , 2020-2021 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Ph.D. When fuels are burned to create energy in a process called combustion, black carbon along with carbon monoxide and other compounds are created because there is not enough oxygen in the atmosphere for the reaction to go to completion.

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HumanNature

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Candidate in the Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University Growing up in Latin America, food was at the center of many family gatherings. But in recent years, many of us have asked ourselves the question: what role does the food I eat play in climate change? greenhouse gas emissions in the year 2020.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 30, 2021

This is especially critical given all the noise coming from the oil and gas sector – and the institutions propping them up – suggesting that the only way to tackle climate change is by paying the very companies fueling the climate crisis to lower their emissions! Carbon capture and release: a license to pollute .

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HumanNature

MARCH 24, 2022

Candidate in the Department of Chemistry at Colorado State University Due to many variables, including higher temperatures and extended droughts, fire patterns are changing globally. 1,2 In 2020 alone, 46 million acres burned in Australia, and over 10 million acres burned in the United States. Forest Wildfire Activity. Abatzoglou, J.

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HumanNature

MARCH 30, 2021

Guest Post By Shelby McClelland , 2020-2021 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Ph.D. Methane is 28 times more powerful than CO 2 at trapping warming in our atmosphere over one-hundred years, and nitrous oxide is even more potent – 265 times more powerful than CO 2. CH 4 , N 2 O), and removal of CO 2 from the atmosphere.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 16, 2023

But another major culprit is climate change, which has intensified the heat and drought that have always been factors in western North America. That climate change obviously didn’t just happen on its own. Encroaching development in fire-prone areas and widespread fire suppression are among them. Licker et al.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 4, 2023

As carbon markets emerge as one potential approach to offsetting climate change, heirs’ property owners will be at a disadvantage in accessing those markets. As mentioned above, the carbon market, where forest landowners receive payments for sequestering carbon, is growing.

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Vermont Law

AUGUST 31, 2015

Summary: In his May encyclical, Pope Francis called for swift global action on climate change. as a vehicle to call for a sweeping transformation of politics, economics, and lifestyles to tackle environmental degradation and climate change. Climate change is a very real threat. By Ashton Roberts. encyclical.

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The Energy Law Blog

JANUARY 15, 2020

Since the initiation of climate change litigation several years ago, various state governments and interest groups have filed lawsuits against fossil fuel companies and governing authorities. On January 10, 2020, the New York Attorney General’s Office stated that it will not appeal the trial court’s decision. People by James v.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 21, 2022

However, despite allowing the Minister’s appeal, the Court rejected the Minister’s argument that the primary judge made findings based on evidence of climate change that were unfounded. The decision has significant implications for future climate litigation claims in Australia. Background on the claim.

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Physics World

APRIL 22, 2021

Published each April, the report brings together data from national meteorological bodies and the European Union’s Copernicus climate change service. The report confirms, among other things, 2020 as the warmest year, winter and autumn on record for Europe with temperatures in winter 3.4 °C C above pre-industrial levels.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Because methane has 28 times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide and a shorter atmospheric life of only 12 years, immediate action to reduce methane emissions —including from agriculture—is critical to slow our warming climate, especially in light of expanding global populations and food demand.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

This post is an introduction to methane in climate change: where it comes from, how it’s different from CO 2 , how those differences matter, and what that all means for controls. Atmospheric concentrations. Climate impact. I won’t go into details on the current state of methane controls and proposals for new ones.

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ESA

DECEMBER 20, 2021

It also directs the Department of Defense to ensure that its core processes fully consider and make adjustments to account for climate change and ensure the climate resilience of DoD assets. A similar bill passed the Senate in 2020 but did not advance in the House of Representatives. The bill includes $514.3

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Physics World

MARCH 16, 2022

As the world grapples with the consequences of climate change, many scientists have begun to face up to the realities of their carbon emissions. It turns out, for example, that climate-change researchers fly more frequently than scientists in other fields. According to a 2020 study ( Glob. Taken from Nat.

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HumanNature

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Studies show it may be possible through the adoption of improved farming practices which take carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and store it in the soil. 5 Changing the way we farm has promise for our fight against climate change, but what does this mean for our nation’s farmers? References 1 IPCC.

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The Energy Law Blog

JUNE 21, 2021

Class VI Injection Wells, which we have discussed previously , are used to inject carbon dioxide (“CO 2 “) into deep rock formations, also known as geologic sequestration. This technology is utilized in order to reduce CO 2 emissions to the atmosphere and mitigate climate change.

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