Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 27, 2022

There is still much we can do to bend that emissions curve sharply within this decade—but only if world leaders, especially leaders of richer countries and major emitting nations, take responsibility to act together quickly and fossil fuel companies are held accountable for their decades of obstruction and deception.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 30, 2022

Fossil fuels are the root cause of climate change, of long-standing environmental injustices, and are also frequently connected to geopolitical strife and violent conflicts. Other countries are dependent upon these fossil fuels, they don’t make themselves free of them. This is a fossil fuel war.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 16, 2022

This is in total opposition to the US commitment under the Paris Agreement to achieve a 50-52 percent emissions reduction below 2005 levels by 2030, and net-zero by 2050. But solar is the big winner here, with it’s share of total US capacity increasing from 7% in 2020 to 29% in 2050.

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HumanNature

MARCH 11, 2024

Sounding Green” has not only become politically correct, but also a possible finance-generating mechanism. Climate is a global issue and when complex political systems around the world are brought together, solutions cannot be straightforward. But the problem is that as of today, such instruments or institutions hardly exist.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The group’s annual report for 2020 found that 227 environmental advocates were killed for their activism, a new record high. The report’s authors say that although 2020 broke the record as the deadliest year for environmental activists, the numbers are likely even higher, since many attacks are not reported.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 17, 2021

For two or three weeks, climate politics gets intense worldwide news coverage. This year’s meeting was also “CMP16” (the 16 th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol of 1997), and CMA3 (the 3 rd meeting of the Conference of Parties to the Paris Agreement of 2015). Then things move on.

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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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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 17, 2021

The demand statement focuses on upholding Indigenous rights and respecting Indigenous knowledge, bold and ambitious climate action (including phasing out fossil fuels and guaranteeing a just transition to a sustainable clean energy economy), protecting and restoring nature and establishing environmental rights in Canada.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 1, 2021

by 2020 against a 2010 baseline. According to the petitioner, as a signatory to the Paris Agreement Brazil has committed to various duties to mitigate climate change. To align itself with the Paris Agreement, Brazil should actually increase its ambition. The Case in Context: Related climate litigation cases.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 19, 2023

Pakistan’s energy sector is dominated by fossil fuels. According to the country’s Finance Division , as of April 2022, just under 60% of total installed generation capacity used fossil fuels, including gas, oil and coal. The NDC also states: “From 2020, new coal power plants are subject to a moratorium.”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 17, 2023

C mark, because of decades of inaction on the part of policymakers and decades of deception and obstruction on the part of fossil fuel companies. To secure the livable future that children around the world deserve, we must double down, ratchet up pressure on governments, and break the power of the fossil fuel industry.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The alarm bells are deafening,” he warned, “and the evidence is irrefutable: greenhouse-gas emissions from fossil-fuel burning and deforestation are choking our planet and putting billions of people at immediate risk.”. Let’s hope our political leaders in Glasgow can make that a reality.”. Global goals.

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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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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Global price benchmarks for crude oil have risen to $80 per barrel in the last month (double where they were a year ago) and are expected to rise even higher in the months ahead, after going negative in April 2020 during the height of the pandemic. Fossil fuel supporters have been quick to say “I told you so.”

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The complaint argues these violations stem from insufficient climate mitigation targets, as well as a general failure to cease to promote fossil fuel extraction and use. However, the Committee found that it was appropriate to consider violations of the Paris Agreement and other international treaties under the ICCPR.

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Arnold Porter

JULY 16, 2021

Moreover, the Institutional Shareholder Services 2020 proxy voting guidelines devote a full section to ESG related proposals. Following the 2020 rulemaking by the SEC, nearly every large financial institution included a risk factor addressing climate change in their 2020 Form 10-Ks.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

There are even indications that near-term cuts might be easier to achieve for methane than for CO 2 , for a mix of technical, economic, and political reasons. CO 2 is at about 410 parts per million by volume (ppm) in the air, about 50% higher than before the start of large-scale fossil-fuel use. Atmospheric concentrations.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Cop stands for conference of the parties under the UNFCCC, and the annual meetings have swung between fractious and soporific, interspersed with moments of high drama and the occasional triumph ( the Paris agreement in 2015 ) and disaster (Copenhagen in 2009). Why do we need a Cop – don’t we already have the Paris agreement?

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Legal Planet

MAY 19, 2021

While by no means exhaustive, the information that I collected helps tell the story of energy policy on the ground across America during the Trump Administration from 2016-2020. Support for renewable energy crossed the partisan aisle, a rarity in today’s highly polarized politics. This led to progressive policies in unlikely places.

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Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2021

On April 15, 2021, federal defendants, defendant-intervenors, and environmental groups filed a stipulation for dismissal of appeals of a district court’s November 2020 decision finding that the U.S. The federal defendants, the States of Wyoming and Utah, and several trade groups appealed the district court’s November 2020 decision.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 8, 2021

In Baltimore’s Climate Case Against Fossil Fuel Companies, Supreme Court Held that Appellate Review of Remand Order Extends to All Grounds for Removal. The fossil fuel companies removed the case in March 2021, citing five grounds for removal, including the federal officer removal statute. In a 7-1 decision, the U.S.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The majority said it “reluctantly” concluded that “the plaintiffs’ case must be made to the political branches or to the electorate at large” and “[t]hat the other branches may have abdicated their responsibility to remediate the problem does not confer on Article III courts, no matter how well-intentioned, the ability to step into their shoes.”

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

That’s a place where coal is still King and Trump beat Biden by forty points in 2020. The Executive Director of the International Energy Agency had this to say: ““I want to make it clear: the Inflation Reduction Act is the single most important climate action since the Paris Agreement in 2015.”

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