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. We wrote about the draft model rule and its implementation challenges when it was released at the beginning of March.
Legal Planet
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
Carbon emissions from land use change (mostly logging) are comparable to Brazil’s, though Brazil gets a lot more publicity. Economic growth has hovered around a healthy 5% annually, meaning that GDP doubles about every 15 years and that carbon emissions will also surge without vigorous climate action.
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Legal Planet
FEBRUARY 21, 2024
Required the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to set standards for greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) new vehicles. Required state to reduce emissions to 1990 levels by 2020 and gave broad authority to CARB to implement the standard. Required CARB to create an inventory of GHG emissions. 2006 AB 32. 2015 SB350.
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 2000. Climate law makes emission targets legally binding 2019. trillion tons.]
Circle of Blue
MARCH 1, 2022
Between 2010 and 2020, the death rate from floods, storms, and droughts in high vulnerability areas was 15 times higher than in low vulnerability areas. There is still time to reduce carbon emissions — though scaling up a low-carbon economy requires marshalling political will, public support, technical expertise, and financing.
Circle of Blue
MARCH 20, 2023
The political dimension is a huge part of the solution to the water crisis,” said Federico Properzi, chief technical adviser of UN-Water. Reducing carbon emissions would relieve the mounting pressure of weather extremes. As of 2020, about 2 billion people do not have safely managed drinking water.
A Greener Life
JANUARY 18, 2022
They found that the past seven years were the world’s warmest by a clear margin, with 2016 and 2020 the warmest on record. 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”.
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