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. Emissions trading systems are often launched with relatively lenient design features, typically justified as giving the system a chance to “learn-by-doing” and to gain political buy-in for approval of a program.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 12, 2022

According to the 2021 report of Elsevier’s parent company, RELX, roughly 2.5 million articles were submitted for review to Elsevier last year, and the company published more than 600,000 articles in 2021 alone. ” Lobbying and financially supporting US politicians who block climate action In the 2019-2020 U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 31, 2022

The Just Energy Transition Workshop is a timely workshop to examine the progress of the EU member countries, as well as the United States and Canada, following the COP-26 in Glasgow in 2021 and the IPCC Sixth Assessment Reports published in 2022. and the Center for Public Research. -- Mogens Rüdiger (Dr.Phil.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2021

C temperature target, and one that more than 130 countries have adopted, albeit mostly as squishy political declarations, not yet legally binding or implemented. Fossil enterprises and political leaders in major fossil producers ranged from politely dismissive to openly contemptuous. Not this time. That’s the end of THIS YEAR!

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Legal Planet

JULY 21, 2023

Last month’s report on solar geoengineering research from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) consolidated a shift in the discourse on this controversial technology. The National Academy of Sciences adopted a ’risk-risk’ framing in its 2021 report.

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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. ” (2021). Citations: Ameli, Nadia, et al. Nature Clim Change 8, 161–165 (2018).

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 27, 2023

This blog is co-authored with Alienor Rougeot, Climate and Energy Program Manager Two prominent figures of Canada’s oil and gas industry were recently on Global TV’s politics show, The West Block with Mercedes Stephenson, where they spread a bunch of misinformation and half truths. Who are the executives who spread the misinformation?

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Energy & the Law

MARCH 7, 2023

And political malpractice is a new category. claiming he had created a compact “nano panel” (which does not exist) using “technology” that could generate triple the amount of electricity as traditional solar panels. Who knows, but we do know that as alternative energy rises, so do associated grifters, frauds and thieves.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

Mr. Minott holds two degrees in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D. In 2002, Scientific American named Dr. Mann one of the fifty leading visionaries in science and technology, and in 2012, he received the Hans Oeschger Medal of the European Geophysical Union. from Villanova University School of Law.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 24, 2021

By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue – August 24, 2021. There is a lot of variation across countries and regions and migration has not only environmental roots, but political and social ones as well. Most people in a drought-stricken region do not migrate, either because they do not want to or they cannot afford to.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 6, 2023

But the good news is that this goal can still be achieved through other legal and political strategies. Measure Z by its terms would have barred the drilling of new oil and gas wells in Monterey County and prohibited the use of fracking technology for existing county wells. The California Court of Appeal agreed in a 2021 decision.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 18, 2022

The practices, technology, and investment the three cities are making to supply and manage water are designed principally to fend off the worst effects of deep droughts. The moratorium, that initially took place in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, was lifted in June of 2021. In Recent Water News. On the Radar.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Though manufacturers largely didn’t adopt the necessary emissions control technology to meet the NO X requirement until 2010, the 2007 standard did require new technologies to be deployed, at an increased upfront cost. Source: ERM 2022 ). At least four separate studies took a look at whether or not there was an observable pre-buy.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The World Resources Institute reported that the world lost more primary rainforest in 2022 than in 2021. Have technological capabilities to observe forest activity also increased? Jason Gray: This year has seen some really sobering news on the tropical deforestation front. Gray: Yes, for sure. Gray: That’s right.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 4, 2024

Multnomah County vs Big Oil where the largest county in Oregon, home to Portland, sued ExxonMobil and others for damages and adaptation costs following 2021’s unprecedented and deadly heatwave.

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Arnold Porter

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Select either the full program or individual sections through the links below: The Political Landscape. Technology, Energy and Transportation. © Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP 2021 All Rights Reserved. Healthcare. Education and Social Welfare.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 26, 2024

But rather than admitting that their product is causing the problem, they continue to insist on producing tar sand oil and crossing their fingers that risky and underperforming CCS technology will allow them to get away with it. million, just slightly down from the near $14 million he received in 2021. million in 2015.

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Physics World

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Of course, climate politics is never as straightforward as it appears. This contested future of India’s energy sector was one of the topics being discussed this week at Environmental Research 2021 , a free-to-attend online event hosted by IOP Publishing. “In Political targets. Solar and wind dominate. “My

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 10, 2021

By Christian Thorsberg, Circle of Blue — August 10, 2021. Vincent’s larger cities–the more technologically developed southern communities of Georgetown, Kingston, and Biabou–are quite different from those on the opposite side of the dry meander. Kalimantan, Borneo © Marc Veraat. On the Caribbean island of St.

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Energy and Climate Law

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Germany is a key European country when it comes to hydrogen and the most advanced in Europe in terms of electricity storage via hydrogen, the so called Power-to-Gas technology. This shall be concluded by 2021 at latest.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 20, 2023

Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile are all in complex political, social, and economic situations. However, the country is now trying to create partnerships with foreign companies that can provide the required technology and technical capacities to get the business started. This challenge has not been successfully addressed yet.

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Environmental Progress

JANUARY 20, 2022

At RePlanet Nederland, we are delighted that the European Commission has proposed, on December 31, 2021, to include nuclear energy in the sustainable finance taxonomy. We believe we must take a science-based approach and prioritize policies and technologies that enable us to liberate nature and elevate humanity.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 22, 2022

During the Texas power outages in 2021, Minnesota gas utilities were stuck buying gas at Midwest wholesale prices 4500% higher than usual, passing astronomical bills onto Minnesota consumers—many of whom are already struggling with energy burdens that are higher than average. Getting energy from where it’s produced to where it’s needed.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 17, 2024

The deadliest climate disaster in Canadian history was the heat dome (abnormally hot temperatures that lasted several days) that hit British Columbia in 2021, causing at least 600 deaths. Canada has the technology, the opportunities and the people to be a climate leader. What’s missing is political leadership.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 19, 2023

Are these new policies, technologies, and street designs finally bringing about the demise of fossil-fueled cars and the rise of a new low-carbon sustainable urbanism? According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, nearly 43,000 people died in car crashes in the United States in 2021, and almost as many in 2022 , a 10.5%

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Subsidies reached new highs in 2021, even before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a Climate Transparency analysis finds. The G20 group of nations provided nearly US$200 billion in support of fossil fuels in 2021, despite the worsening impacts of the climate crisis and their pledge in 2009 to phase out “inefficient” subsidies.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 30, 2021

As political parties prepare their election platforms and publish their climate priorities, it can be difficult to determine which parties are releasing strong climate plans that put us on a pathway to zero emissions – and what policies are actually dangerous distractions from real solutions. The window for keeping global warming to 1.5

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Physics World

DECEMBER 18, 2021

Coining the phrase “zero-sum game”, the treatise would change economics and introduce game theory into political science, military strategy, psychology and evolutionary biology. Von Neumann accepted that there was no “complete recipe” for avoiding human extinction by technological means. 2021 Allen Lane £20hb 368pp.

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Frontiers

JULY 5, 2023

Photo credit: One Sustainable Health for All Foundation The three-day event brings together high-level political and technical stakeholders from more than 50 professional and civil society organizations working across the world on a holistic approach to health that considers human, animal, and environmental health.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 12, 2023

By Ad Crable, Chesapeake Bay Journal In the summer of 2021, a twin-engine special research aircraft took off from State College, PA. For the 2021 aerial probe, Carbon Mapper targeted areas of generally high methane levels that the organization had previously located using readings from space satellites operated by the European Space Agency.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 11, 2022

This survey took place following the release of a series of reports that American and global greenhouse gas emissions climbed significantly in 2021 after a short-lived pandemic decline. But such technological options as geoengineering or carbon storage lack demonstrable support.

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Frontiers

APRIL 24, 2023

Author: Sorcha Brennan Professor Jayati Ghosh taught economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi for nearly 35 years, and since January 2021 she has been a Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. With the correct political will, we could actually implement them very easily.”

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Physics World

OCTOBER 9, 2021

The concept is that the development of knowledge, be it scientific or any other kind, cannot be completely separated from its social, historical or political context. Like Prescod-Weinstein, I want to believe that science and technology can help to bring this about. 2021 Little, Brown £20hb 336pp.

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Physics World

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

He is an expert in science and technology studies at the Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey, US, and his book Restricted Data explores a much less examined (and thus far more interesting) counterfactual: What if the secrecy surrounding nuclear weapons had ended with those first atomic bombings?

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

Recent & Ongoing Campaigns EthicalConsumer calls for boycott of Amazon over company's tax avoidance Ethical Consumer | January 29, 2021 In 2020, Amazon announced that its key UK business paid just £14.46 Billion in Federal Income Taxes Matthew Gardner | ITEP | February 3, 2021 Amazon’s winning streak in its battle against the U.S.

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Recent & Ongoing Campaigns EthicalConsumer calls for boycott of Amazon over company's tax avoidance Ethical Consumer | January 29, 2021 In 2020, Amazon announced that its key UK business paid just £14.46 Billion in Federal Income Taxes Matthew Gardner | ITEP | February 3, 2021 Amazon’s winning streak in its battle against the U.S.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Recent & Ongoing Campaigns EthicalConsumer calls for boycott of Amazon over company's tax avoidance Ethical Consumer | January 29, 2021 In 2020, Amazon announced that its key UK business paid just £14.46 Billion in Federal Income Taxes Matthew Gardner | ITEP | February 3, 2021 Amazon’s winning streak in its battle against the U.S.

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