Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 23, 2023

GW record from 2021. In 2021 alone, the plants slated for retirement emitted more than 28,000 tonnes of nitrogen oxides (NO x ), 32,000 tonnes of sulfur dioxide (SO 2 ), and 51 million tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ), according to EIA data. Compiled by UCS from Energy Information Administration data as of January 2023.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2023

Heat-trapping emissions must be cut in half by 2030 to reach the Paris agreement goal of keeping global warming to 1.5 Shareholder advocates such as the Dutch nongovernmental organization Follow This have again filed proposals focused on the companies’ 2030 emissions reduction targets and their alignment with the Paris Agreement.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 9, 2024

In a transformative moment for European and global climate litigation, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled today that the state has a positive duty to adopt, and effectively implement in practice, regulations and measures capable of mitigating the existing and potentially irreversible future effects of climate change.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Law 1844 of 2017 on the Paris Agreement. Law 2169 of 2021 on carbon neutrality and climate resilience. The framework binds Colombia to international agreements, including the UNFCCC (Law 164 of 1994), the Kyoto Protocol (Law 629 of 2000) and the Paris Agreement (Law 1844 of 2017).

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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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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

laws governing the cross-border transport of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) for sequestration, and how such transportation fits into broader climate and environmental protection regimes, including the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, carbon markets and emissions trading. From 2021-2022, Martin clerked for the Honorable Cynthia M.

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Energy and Climate Law

JUNE 26, 2020

On 1 July the rotating presidency of the European Council is moving for one and a half years to Germany (1/July/2020), Portugal (1/January/2021) and Slovenia (1/July/2021). We take a look at their agenda and critically assess whether or not it can bring about a boost for the energy transition in times of COVID-19.

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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

MARCH 24, 2023

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. If you haven’t heard of the CER, you are not alone. C pathway.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 2, 2022

But, despite some regulations being proposed, including an oil and gas emissions cap, this industry has been very successful at convincing government officials of a dangerous lie. The world is moving towards clean sources of energy; In 2021, 86% of the new power capacity that was installed came from renewable energy.

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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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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 22, 2022

As noted at the end of last year, 2021 was significant for climate litigation, with several decisions worldwide providing a fresh look at stakeholder responsibility for climate change. Courts in the Czech Republic and the United Kingdom have provided oversight of government climate mitigation actions. By Maria Antonia Tigre.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Due to this unchecked increase in emissions from the oil and gas sector, combined with public pressure from environmental activists, in 2021 the Government of Canada finally committed to limit oil and gas emissions at a pace and scale needed to keep global average temperatures to below 1.5 degrees Celsius.

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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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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 4, 2024

The report also indicates that under current government policies, fossil fuel production will rise in the coming years, contrary to the Paris Agreement. Despite 78 per cent of Canadians wanting action on this , the federal government has failed to act. billion invested in fossil fuels.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 28, 2023

in 2021, according to LinkedIn’s Green Skills Report. In China, government plans to peak and neutralise national carbon emissions, and for a wholesale green transition , have caused a boom in “green employment”. Even the landmark 2015 Paris Agreement had only a small impact on employment. in 2015 to 13.3%

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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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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 12, 2021

On October 8, 2021, at the HRC’s 48 th session, forty-three nations adopted resolution 48/13 , recognizing the right to a safe, clean, healthy, and sustainable environment as a human right. On October 12, 2021, the CRC published its decision in Sacchi et al. dated September 22, 2021). Argentina et al. In Neubauer, et al.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Grid Safety: How Cost-of-Service Ratemaking Creates Tension Between Regulators and Utilities and Slows Grid Hardening By: Michael Murphy and Professor Genevieve Byrne The number of wildfires each year is increasing, which cost billions of dollars in damage and take hundreds of lives. In Maine, it is.

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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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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Canada’s pension regulator, the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI) has also warned that directors and administrators of federally regulated pension plans may be exposed to liability risk for failing to fulfill their legal/fiduciary duties with respect to the climate crisis. This is unacceptable in 2021.”.

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Law Columbia

MAY 15, 2024

Meanwhile, many international antitrust regulators have updated their collaboration guidelines, with a particular focus on sustainability-related collaborations. The private sector is indispensable to achieving global goals related to climate change, such as those set out in the Paris Agreement.

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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.

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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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Arnold Porter

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Over the last several years, many investors, regulators and other stakeholders have increasingly sought environmental, social and governance (ESG) disclosures from public companies. N:EYGM Limited, The Future of Sustainability Reporting Standards: The Policy Evolution and the Actions Companies Can Take Today (June 2021).]].

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 14, 2021

On September 20, 2021, the German environmental organization Deutsche Umwelthilfe (DUH) filed two actions against the automakers BMW and Mercedes-Benz for refusing to tighten their carbon emissions target and stop producing fossil fuel fuel-emitting cars by 2030 ( DUH v. By Maria Antonia Tigre. BMW and DUH v. Mercedes-Benz ).

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Arnold Porter

JULY 16, 2021

Over the last several years the market has seen the increase of environmental, social and governance (ESG) disclosures by public companies occur in fits and starts in reaction to pressures from a variety of constituents, including some of the largest institutional investors.

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A Greener Life

JULY 6, 2022

The highest court in the US voted by 6-3 to limit any US government’s authority to reduce CO2 emissions. This is set to have serious implications for US’s global role in climate leadership which only resumed when Joe Biden took over in January 2021. The US President had previously asked the EPA to set emission rules for power plants.

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Legal Planet

MAY 13, 2024

Trump recently told Big Oil executives over dinner that they should give him $1 billion in campaign donations because he planned to immediately reverse climate regulations, the New York Times and Washington Post both reported. It includes only completed actions, not proposed regulations. International January 20, 2021.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 11, 2024

Conscious of the “subsidiary” role of the ECtHR and the need to respect democratic decision-making by states in line with the separation of powers, the Court emphasized the discretion or “margin of appreciation” enjoyed by state governments (paras. That is both a weakness of the Paris Agreement but also, some would say, its strength.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 26, 2024

Switzerland is a striking example of the Paris effect: the influence of the non-binding collective goals of the Paris Agreement (PA) on the interpretation of domestic constitutional law or international human rights law in climate litigation. 8 European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). UNEP Emissions Gap Report ).

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Greenbuilding Law

AUGUST 1, 2021

Businesses cannot ignore or refuse to think about the environmental, social and governance (ESG) space; it is not going away. Other regulations also prohibit ESG disclosures as recently posted about, Labor Department Will Not Enforce Anti ESG Rule. If the organization wants the very best employees (.

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Columbia Climate Law

AUGUST 26, 2020

Since January 2017, the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University has been tracking the Trump administration’s ongoing efforts to rewrite federal climate change policy and deconstruct climate governance. But these actions are just a few of the many that a Biden administration could take in January 2021 and onward.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 2, 2021

Climate litigation is now established as a critical part of domestic climate governance regimes. ISDS claims do not – at least not directly – aim to suspend or overturn domestic regulation. However, the confidential nature of such processes means they are difficult to examine and quantify. The PV Investors v. Spain , Eskosol v.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 14, 2023

Most states have parallel laws governing competitive behavior at the state level. Additionally, the Noerr-Pennington Doctrine gives antitrust immunity to private parties (both citizens and corporations) that engage in lobbying the government to adopt laws or rulings – even ones which may be anti-competitive.

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Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2021

Circuit’s January opinion vacating EPA’s repeal and replacement of the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan regulations for controlling carbon emissions from existing power plants. Circuit erred by “untethering” Section 111(d) standards from the existing source being regulated. EPA’s response to the petitions is due June 3, 2021.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 8, 2021

May 17, 2021). In three other cases brought by local and state governments against fossil fuel companies, the Supreme Court granted petitions for writ of certiorari seeking review of decisions affirming remand orders. May 24, 2021); Suncor Energy (U.S.A.) May 24, 2021); Shell Oil Products Co., May 24, 2021).

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