Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 16, 2022

The Department of Energy’s Energy Information Administration (EIA) is one of the go-to sources for reliable information about the US power sector. They just released their 2022 “Annual Energy Outlook” (AEO), which is a big deal: it tells us where electricity is headed over the next 30 years.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 22, 2022

2022 was no different, with courts further delineating the procedural dimensions of climate cases and expanding on the responsibilities of stakeholders for climate mitigation and adaption. In June 2022, the Prague Municipal Court ruled in Klimatická žaloba ČR v. In Ville de Paris and Others v.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 17, 2023

C above preindustrial levels, the limit that island nations and allies fought for so hard in the Paris Agreement. (It C limit in the Paris Agreement refers to the long-term average temperature, rather than the temperature in any one year.) It is important to note that the 1.5°

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 7, 2023

The Pittsburgh 2030 District , a project of the Green Building Alliance , has released its 2022 Progress Report , revealing District property partners have reduced carbon emissions by 44.8% below baseline. The District will continue to pursue zero carbon emissions by 2040. The District will continue to pursue zero carbon emissions by 2040.

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Clean Energy Law

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Green , and James Bee On December 14, 2023, the European Council (Council) and European Parliament (Parliament) reached provisional agreement on the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD). The CSDDD’s key aim is to enhance the protection of the environment and human rights globally.

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HumanNature

MARCH 11, 2024

As per the World Investment Report 2023, much of the growth in international investment in renewable energy, which has nearly tripled since the adoption of the Paris Agreement in 2015, was concentrated in developed countries. Developing countries need renewable energy investments of about US$1.7 Ryan-Collins.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 25, 2024

Canada promised to cut its greenhouse gas emissions after the 2016 Paris Agreement. It was part of the global agreement where 195 countries all agreed to reduce their emissions, and Canada has set this promise into law. Rather, they need to have proper plans on how they will build clean energy across the country.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 27, 2022

On November 2, Pittsburgh-based CEOs For Sustainability will hold their annual C-Suite Summit where leaders will highlight their businesses’ actions to transition to a clean energy economy and highlight new insights on a framework for multi-sector regional decarbonization. Posted: October 27, 2022] PA Environment Digest

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

By Rejimon Kuttappan Along with a major expansion of renewable energy, India is also pushing for big increases in its coal production, casting doubt on its climate commitments. From 2013 to 2014, Indian coal production was 565 million tonnes; from 2022 to 2023, that had increased by 58% to 893 million.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Last month, the British-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ) reported that London-based HSBC, one of the world’s top-10 biggest banks, has helped raise $47 billion for the fossil fuel industry since its 2022 announcement that it would not finance new gas and oil infrastructure. It was another corporate spit in the face of science.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 17, 2024

and Cuban governments could help to drive renewable energy development in the island nation, in a manner that benefits the Cuban people as well as the interests of people throughout the region. The report also explores how a bilateral dialogue between the U.S. Cuba’s power system is currently heavily reliant on fossil fuels.

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Ocean Conservancy

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The dialogue will provide opportunities to share lessons learned and challenges faced, as well as include ocean solutions in country commitments under the Paris Agreement. degree reduction targeted in the Paris Agreement, let alone the follow-through it takes to meet existing commitments. With this action, the U.S

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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. What we need to see in the Energy Futures report?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 13, 2023

Spring is a time of new beginnings, and this spring scientists are calling for financial institutions to start doing their part to limit the worst impacts of climate change and hasten a just, equitable transition to clean energy. trillion in the seven years since the adoption of the Paris climate agreement.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 11, 2022

In March 2022, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) and the Office of the Special Rapporteur on Economic, Social, Cultural and Environmental Rights (REDESCA) jointly published Resolution No. The resolution also calls on countries to “move towards a clean and just energy transition.”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The UN NDC Synthesis Report , which finds that if countries implement their current emission reduction pledges, or nationally determined contributions (NDCs) under the Paris Agreement, global emissions will increase approximately 8.8% trillion for renewable power generation by 2030, compared to $486 billion in 2022.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 17, 2023

C or less above pre-industrial levels is a cornerstone of the Paris Agreement—one that was hard won by an alliance of small island states and the least developed countries around the world who considered it to be a relatively sufficiently safe limit to future warming, given the existential threats they face. Why is 1.5°C

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A Greener Life

JUNE 28, 2023

In 2022, tech firms’ payrolls fell by 164,000 employees, with a further 166,000 jobs cut in the first quarter of 2023, according to tracking platform Layoffs.fyi. Even the landmark 2015 Paris Agreement had only a small impact on employment. Around the world, tech and finance companies have been laying staff off.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Rhodium reported that “the most rapid investment growth has been in clean technology manufacturing—with annual investment growing 125% year-on-year to $39 billion—and particularly within electric vehicle and solar manufacturing. Investment in clean energy production and industrial decarbonization rose 15% year-on-year to $61 billion.”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 27, 2023

This means that when the price of gas spikes –as it did in 2022 amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and inevitably will again in the future–the price of electricity for consumers also eventually spikes in response. Gas-powered plants accounted for the most power plant outages during 2022 Winter Storm Elliott, followed by coal.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

NASA image of Pakistan on August 4, 2022 (left) vs. August 28, 2022. Back in 2013, nations acknowledged the need to deal with loss and damage via the Warsaw International Mechanism (WIM) on Loss and Damage , whose mandate was reinforced in Article 8 of the Paris Agreement. Water-borne diseases are now a growing threat.

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Acoel

JULY 25, 2022

Posted on July 25, 2022 by Steven Chester. the Departments of Interior and Energy). In the first decade-plus of this Century, about half of the states actively sought to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and promote clean energy alternatives to coal. commitments under the Paris Agreement.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 19, 2022

According to the International Energy Agency , coal is “the single largest source of global temperature increase” in 2018. . 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

MAY 13, 2024

The earliest action covered is Biden’s rejoining the Paris Agreement; the most recent is a burst of final actions taken around Earth Day 2024. begins the process of rejoining the Paris Agreement on Biden’s first day in office. officially became a party to the agreement again on February 19, 2021. October 26, 2022.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 31, 2022

Reduce Ontario’s GHG emissions by at least 50 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030 and achieve net-zero emissions by 2050, targets consistent with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the most ambitious aspects of the Paris Agreement. By investing in retrofits, between 2022 and 2030 Ontario could see more than $15.2

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Yet until two years ago in Glasgow, Scotland, no COP agreements or decisions mentioned fossil fuels, much less did anything to rein them in. Christiana Figueres, who helped negotiate the Paris Agreement as head of the UNFCCC, once believed that the fossil fuel industry should help set climate policy.

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Legal Planet

MAY 19, 2021

The City of Atlanta committed to 100 percent clean energy by 2035 after its leaders concluded the state of Georgia was not meeting their policy goals. In reflecting on the past administration’s impact on energy policy, a state-by-state analysis reveals a more positive picture than many feared in 2016. Jetta Cook is a J.D.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 28, 2024

And this month, congressional leaders called on US Attorney General Merrick Garland to investigate ExxonMobil, other major oil and gas companies, and two of their trade associations for their decades-long climate disinformation campaign—including claims and actions since the adoption of the Paris Agreement in 2015.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 12, 2023

remains a party to the UNFCCC , helped broker the Paris Agreement, and is till a party to that agreement today. Perhaps most importantly, the federal government has invested billions of dollars in clean energy. 2015 Paris Agreement adopted with strong U.S. withdrawal from Paris Agreement.

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HumanNature

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Guest Post By Sarah Whipple , 2021-2022 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Ph.D. Former President Trump left the Paris Agreement on behalf of the U.S. Grassroots movements and local governments continued to act, which led to current President Biden rejoining the Paris Agreement on his term day. Biden 2021).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 10, 2022

On August 7, the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 won passage in the Senate along party lines, 51-50, with Vice President Kamala Harris casting the deciding vote. The House is expected to pass the bill within days, and it will then move swiftly to the President’s desk for his signature.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 9, 2023

One year on, we have a clearer picture of what we vaguely knew already: the biggest-ever climate law and its robust tax incentives is igniting the clean energy transition but is not moving us off fossil fuels fast enough. The oil and gas industry is not yet sweating the competition from clean energy. Biden signed on Aug.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 4, 2022

As we are in the early days of 2022, I could again write that 2021 was the year climate change went mainstream. The president immediately re-joined the Paris Agreement and on day one in office Biden, wanting to show he meant business, signed executive orders related to climate including the controversial Keystone XL pipeline. .

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Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2021

Circuit Decision Vacating Affordable Clean Energy Rule. 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. If you know of any cases we have missed, please email us at columbiaclimate@gmail.com. .

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Law Columbia

APRIL 20, 2021

On Inauguration Day, the United States also began the process of rejoining the Paris Agreement. The working group is expected to announce new estimates for the social costs of carbon, methane, and nitrous oxide in January 2022. greenhouse gas emissions and the need to swiftly transition to a clean-energy economy.

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ESA

APRIL 11, 2022

Department of Energy Office of Science encourages researchers to apply for supplemental funding to collaborate with scientists impacted by the war in Ukraine. By Karl Mathiessen, Zia Weise and Joshua Posaner, PoliticoPro, 4/4/2022. Young died in March 2022. 6451 ) in February 2022. Federal Register opportunities.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

He personally intervened to help negotiate the Paris Agreement. Although there many other regulatory actions, the standouts were the first limits on greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles and the Clean Power Plan, which was designed to cut emissions from power plants. And he withdraw from the Paris Agreement.

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