Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

When diplomats and government ministers converge on Glasgow this fall, they hope to rekindle pivotal negotiations on global climate that were dampened during the pandemic. It’s also an essential consideration as countries plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in line with the Paris agreement.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 4, 2022

Their efforts have paid off: The 27 resolutions demanding increased disclosure that went to a vote in 2021 averaged approximately 40 percent support, according to investment management firm Boston Trust Walden. ExxonMobil also funded the Consumer Energy Alliance , a pro-fracking front group run by PR firms on behalf of fossil fuel companies.

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Legal Planet

MAY 9, 2022

As of 2021, 30 emissions trading systems were in force globally, covering 16 – 17 % of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. As a compromise, California law (AB 398) has limited offsets to 4% of compliance obligations for the 2021-2025 period and capped the offsets without in-state benefits that can be utilized for compliance. .

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 20, 2021

. – In Canada, and across the world, we need to rapidly wind down production of fossil fuels in order to limit catastrophic levels of warming, save millions of lives, and end harm to frontline communities. Yesterday the Premier of Quebec announced a provincial ban on all fossil fuel extraction.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2023

The key word here is “ intensity :” Fossil fuel companies often focus on emissions intensity, meaning emissions per barrel of oil, rather than absolute emissions, which is a set number measured in metric tons. Heat-trapping emissions must be cut in half by 2030 to reach the Paris agreement goal of keeping global warming to 1.5

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 26, 2022

In the year since, there have been even more important advances in climate litigation seeking to hold companies and governments accountable for climate harms. Instead of warning the world and transitioning away from fossil fuels, the industry spent the last 50-plus years spreading disinformation and obstructing government action.

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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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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The key findings are: The investments of the Pathways Alliance members remain overwhelmingly concentrated on oil and gas and are not aligned with Paris Agreement goals. billion (USD $34 billion) in their fossil fuel operations. If there is no fossil fuel pollution there is no need for carbon market mechanisms.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 4, 2024

For instance, mortgages are connected to homes, while fossil fuel finance is tied to infrastructure like pipelines, oil wells, and the reserves still in the ground. Up to $4 trillion of fossil fuel assets are at risk of being stranded, with $100bn at risk in Canada by 2036. However, Canada is falling behind.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 17, 2021

OTTAWA | Unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People — With Canada’s 2021 federal election just five weeks away, a coalition of 34 Canada’s leading environmental organizations are calling on everyone in Canada to vote on September 20 — and when they do, vote for a green and just recovery from COVID-19.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue – September 15, 2021. When they converge on Glasgow this fall to rekindle pivotal global climate negotiations that were dampened during the pandemic, diplomats and government ministers will confront a world much changed since their last convention.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

At COP28 , on 9 December, India’s environment and climate change minister Bhupender Yadav affirmed the country’s “trust and confidence” in the Paris Agreement , whilst highlighting the country’s achievements in emissions reduction. However, a closer look at how India measures its forests has revealed a host of issues.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 24, 2023

The world is moving away from fossil fuels. With renewable energy, like solar and wind, becoming cheaper and easier to scale up, there has never been a better moment for governments to transition away from the fossil fuel industry and its destructive impacts on the environment, the climate and communities.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 2, 2022

These are worthwhile questions, but Legg’s answer is a call for more fossil fuels. It also shows how fossil fuel industry boosters are grasping at straws. The biggest obstacle standing in the way of Canada meeting its emissions reduction targets is the fossil fuel industry. This is misguided and dangerous.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 24, 2022

In the 1960s climate change was not really a significant concern, not even amongst environmentalists – this was despite the fact that the Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius in 1896 was the first to claim that emissions from fossil fuels might eventually result in enhanced global warming. In 2021 the world emitted 36.4

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Physics World

OCTOBER 29, 2021

But the United Nations has just said that the latest commitments of the 192 parties of the 2015 Paris agreement will equate to a 16% rise in global greenhouse-gas emissions in 2030 compared to 2010. “What is needed is a proper commitment to genuinely get to net zero and that has to be through government legislation.

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HumanNature

MARCH 11, 2024

Student in the Department of Economics at Colorado State University As the urgent need to take tough action towards climate mitigation and sustainability gathers pressure, for most major power-holders today, including the markets, institutions, government agencies, media and countries, environmentalism has perhaps become the biggest fashion fad.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 27, 2023

Fossil fuel power plant owners are facing increased accountability for their air and water pollution, including from a new round of environmental and public health protections that are being rolled out by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). We’ve heard these lazily disingenuous narratives before.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Climate catastrophes are happening throughout our planet, and are only projected to get more intense and more frequent, unless we get a handle on addressing the leading cause of this crisis: Fossil Fuels. degrees Celsius. What is the role of an emissions cap policy?

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Clean Energy Law

DECEMBER 12, 2023

signing of all the financing agreements) has been made prior to December 2021. The relevant CFPP owner has a Paris Agreement-aligned transition plan. The fair value of the coal plant is positive at the time of the proposed coal transition. beyond those that have already been signed by December 2023).

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 5, 2021

They said the government was not doing enough to help them, while 16 planes and 51 helicopters tackled the blazes across a swathe of southwest Turkey. May 2021 was the hottest May for over 50 years and followed a drought in Turkey, creating the perfect conditions for wildfires.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 7, 2023

below the baseline, a slight decrease from the 2021 reduction of 37.1% (accountable due to workers returning to the office), but still greater than the pre-pandemic 2019 reduction of 19.8%. In 2021, commercial real estate entities JLL and CBRE announced they would pursue achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2040. million square feet.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 15, 2021

This report is used by federal and provincial governments developing public policy, energy companies making decisions about future directions, and investors trying to figure out where to put their money. Energy Futures 2021 has two main projections of Canada’s future energy needs. Success on climate change nowhere to be found.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 12, 2022

As part of its ongoing investigation of fossil fuel industry climate disinformation, the US House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Reform released more than 200 pages of internal corporate documents last month that provide new evidence of industry deception. Companies Plot “Greenwashing” Campaigns.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 19, 2023

News that the Pakistan government plans to secure financing and start construction on a long-stalled 300-megawatt coal-fired power plant in the port city of Gwadar has triggered a debate on the direction of the country’s energy sector. Pakistan’s energy sector is dominated by fossil fuels.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The CPP doesn’t fully disclose our holdings, it’s still investing billions of dollars in fossil fuels, and it doesn’t seem to have a credible climate plan. Beneficiaries have asked their pension funds to respond with detailed, credible answers to climate-related questions by December 31, 2021. billion AUM. billion AUM.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 1, 2021

On October 26, 2021, Observatório do Clima (OC), a network of 71 civil society organizations, filed a class action at the federal court of Amazonas against the Environmental Ministry and Brazilian government ( Laboratório do Observatório do Clima v. Omissions from the Brazilian government on climate policy.

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Law Columbia

JULY 12, 2022

Specifically, the new suit addresses KLM’s Fly Responsibly campaign, promoting the airline’s efforts towards “creating a more sustainable future” and on track to reduce its emissions to net zero by 2050, in line with KLM’s alleged commitments to the Paris Agreement goals. C” target of the Paris Agreement.

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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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Legal Planet

JULY 5, 2023

So, what if all parties – government, private sector, environmental groups, the public more broadly -actually made difficult choices and compromises, sometimes even involving important principles, in the face of dire consequences. To be blunt, in a world at great risk from the burning of fossil fuels, this is bordering on insanity.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

This assessment wasn’t ExxonMobil’s idea, but was compelled by a successful shareholder resolution that was part of a 2021 investor revolt against the industry’s climate inaction that ultimately displaced several members of ExxonMobil’s Board of Directors.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 11, 2022

Two notable climate litigation cases, the 2013 Athabaskan petition and the 2021 Cité Soleil petition , are still pending. Several countries in the OAS have committed to increased use of clean energy in their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) to the Paris Agreement. This transition has already led to climate litigation.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 31, 2023

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), provide policymakers, industry participants, and the public with tools to chart a pathway to prepare the offshore oil and gas industry for a Paris Agreement–compatible phase-out of fossil fuel extraction. must remain unextracted to keep within a 1.5 °C C carbon budget.”

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 19, 2022

Thermal coal is the world’s dirtiest fossil fuel and increases global carbon pollution putting all countries at risk from the disastrous impacts of climate change. . Coal power generation must be reduced to 80 per cent below 2010 levels by 2030 and be phased out before 2040 in order to meet targets set out by the Paris Agreement. .

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2022

In the 2015 Paris Agreement , Article 8 acknowledged the importance of L&D and the accompanying decision 1/CP.21 Arguments for a separate L&D financial vehicle gained strength in Glasgow (COP26, 2021), but disagreement persisted until the last-minute agreement to establish one at the end of last month’s COP27.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Instead, key figures in business, government and international bureaucracies such as the International Energy Agency are disrupting the status quo, finding new ways to make profit, while lowering global emissions. The shift will only occur when government regulations hold carbon-emitting companies accountable for emission costs.

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