Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 13, 2023

Banks are still fanning the flames According to the 2023 edition of Banking on Climate Chaos , released this week, the world’s 60 largest banks spent $673 billion on fossil fuel financing in 2022 and $5.5 trillion in the seven years since the adoption of the Paris climate agreement.

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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

MAY 28, 2024

The group is behind expensive media campaigns to defeat legislation that would protect communities from harmful emissions resulting from oil and gas extraction, and incorrectly blames high gas prices in California on state politics. BP keeps climate-conscious shareholders out BP faced no climate-related shareholder proposals this year.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Some states, like California, Louisiana, or Alaska may be feeling the impacts more acutely earlier on, but it does not feel like things have become bad enough for political will to be marshalled. But it beats a structure in which political paralysis is so severe that nothing, whether adaptation or mitigation, can be done.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

He personally intervened to help negotiate the Paris Agreement. And he withdraw from the Paris Agreement. Joe Biden’s climate presidency Under Biden, Congress enacted three laws providing hundreds of billions of dollars to fund clean energy — the 2022 infrastructure law, the CHIPS Act, and the Inflate Reduction Act.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 9, 2023

With the help of dramatic personal intervention by Obama, what came instead was the Copenhagen Agreement, a non-binding framework that called for developed countries to submit their own emission targets. Many observers had completely written off Congress as a player in climate policy due to political gridlock.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 13, 2023

The most emblematic decision came from the Federal Supreme Court, the highest Court in the Brazilian legal system, which ruled in July 2022 that the Paris Agreement is a human rights treaty. Accordingly, any Brazilian law or decree contradicting the Paris Agreement may be invalidated.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 31, 2022

To help voters determine which candidates would deliver the needed course correction, Environmental Defence and its allies in the Ontario Priorities Working Group asked each of the province’s major political parties whether – and how – they would deliver the rapid emissions reductions Ontario will need to head off climate catastrophe. .

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The Decision text of COP26 completed the Rulebook by resolving sticky issues on fundamental norms related to carbon emission markets under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (PA). Article 6 is central to the Paris Agreement , and to make the Agreement fully operational these issues needed to be resolved.

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ESA

APRIL 11, 2022

By Karl Mathiessen, Zia Weise and Joshua Posaner, PoliticoPro, 4/4/2022. Although there’s a broad consensus on the science of climate change, that’s not the case with politics. Despite that scrap, the takeaway remains constant — there is no hope of stopping global warming at the Paris Agreement limits of 1.5 Halting at 1.5

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Law Columbia

MARCH 29, 2023

Vanuatu published the first draft of the resolution in late 2022. Part of the discussion on the need for an advisory opinion on climate change focuses on the possibility to interpret the obligations in the Paris Agreement and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The UNGA adopted resolution (A/77/L.58)

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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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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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Ocean Conservancy

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Through a changing administration, an ongoing global pandemic and a tumultuous political environment, we at Ocean Conservancy have never lost sight of our goal of a healthy and resilient ocean that supports us all. I am so proud of what we have achieved together, and it makes me incredibly hopeful for 2022. Enter Your Email.loading.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 9, 2023

will achieve a 29-42% reduction in GHGs in 2030—a meaningful departure from previous years’ expectations for the US emissions trajectory, but not enough for the US to meet its pledge under the Paris Agreement to reduce emissions by 50-52% below 2005 levels by 2030.” People love anniversaries. Or journalists do anyway.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The 2022 UN NDC Synthesis report assesses the collective impact of emissions reduction pledges, known as nationally determined contributions (NDCs), that countries have submitted under the Paris Agreement. Source: UN Climate Change 2022 NDC Synthesis Report. Source: UN Climate Change 2022 NDC Synthesis Report.

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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 C of warming?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Losses and damages caused by climate change to intangible cultural heritage such as Indigenous and local knowledge, and traditional agricultural practices have been vastly underestimated in discussions of Paris Agreement implementation. Graphic: IPCC/UNESCO/ICOMOS 2022. This needs to change.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 29, 2024

Results from the meeting were published in 2022 as the Global Research and Action Agenda on Culture, Heritage and Climate Change.

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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. ” Available at SSRN 4198146 (2022). Kedward, Katie, Daniela Gabor, and J.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 16, 2022

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. Source: US Energy Information Administration, Annual Energy Outlook 2022 (AEO2022). Source: US Energy Information Administration, Annual Energy Outlook 2022 (AEO2022).

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

A mid-August 2022 report from a Princeton research group, concluded that IRA would close two-thirds of the remaining emissions gap between current policy and the nation’s 2030 climate target (50% below 2005). Federal subsidies create new national political dynamics.

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Legal Planet

MAY 19, 2021

Many more states saw progressive signaling in favor of emissions reductions by their governors committing the state to the Paris Agreement or joining RGGI, the carbon trading scheme in New England and the mid-Atlantic. Support for renewable energy crossed the partisan aisle, a rarity in today’s highly polarized politics.

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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. Nevertheless, given the steep political obstacles along the way, the final bill is imperfect. The overall bill is a big win for climate, jobs, and justice.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 17, 2024

In 2022, fossil fuels accounted for about 95% of electricity generation, and about 48% of the fossil fuels used were imported, putting the country at high risk of price shocks and supply shortages. 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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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Senate Infrastructure Bill -- TribLive Guest Essay: Pittsburgh Region A National Model For Future-Focused Infrastructure - Greater Pittsburgh Chamber -- TribLive: Pelosi Vows Infrastructure Bill Will Pass This Week National/International -- The Guardian: Cop26 Climate Talks Will Not Fulfil Aims Of Paris Agreement, Key Players Warn PA Politics -- PA (..)

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Law Columbia

JUNE 1, 2022

On May 6, 2022, the Citizens’ Committee on the Kobe Coal-Fired Power Plant filed an appeal to Japan’s Supreme Court in Citizens’ Committee on the Kobe Coal-Fired Power Plant v. As of May 2022 , there are 163 operating coal-fired power plants in Japan. However, one of the coal-fired power plants started operating on February 1, 2022.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 18, 2022

On June 15, 2022, the Prague Municipal Court, a first instance administrative court, decided in favor of the plaintiffs in the first Czech strategic climate case ( Klimatická žaloba ?R 2022 Prague Municipal Court Decision. Guest Commentary: An Unexpected Success for Czech Climate Litigation. Eva Balounová *. Introduction.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 6, 2022

Already this year, we have seen the leading edge of the 2022 danger season. Here is just a snapshot of what we’ve seen elsewhere around the world in 2022 so far: An early, intense heatwave in India and Pakistan starting in March, with temperatures reaching as high as 122 F, has caused at least 90 deaths and untold suffering.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2022

2022 Flooding in Pakistan. In the 2015 Paris Agreement , Article 8 acknowledged the importance of L&D and the accompanying decision 1/CP.21 Germany introduced the proposal in March 2022, initially as a pilot partnership with 5 to 10 highly climate-vulnerable countries.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 23, 2023

Note: this is adjusted for inflation to 2022 dollars and is based on the amount those plants emitted in 2021, the EIA’s most recent year of finalized data. Modeling has shown that if the United States is going to live up to its Paris Agreement targets aimed at limiting global warming to 1.5 What can be done?

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Though full data is not yet available for 2022, financial support to both producers and consumers of fossil fuels is projected to have risen, partly due to spiralling energy prices in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. warming limit of the Paris Agreement within reach, the report notes. Loss and damage.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 9, 2021

degree C of warming by 2100 as opposed to the Paris Agreement aspiration of 1.5 UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres lamented that the final texts, “take important steps, but unfortunately the collective political will was not enough to overcome some deep contradictions.” What can you do?

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Law Columbia

MARCH 15, 2023

Background on Ocean CDR In the Paris Agreement , 193 countries, including the U.S., In 2022, the U.S. However, sections of the model legislation may be severed and work on their own, depending on the political choices involved. o C above pre-industrial levels.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 8, 2022

On February 8, 2022, the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic gave its final approval to the proposed constitutional law A.C.3156-B The next hearing is scheduled for June 21, 2022 ( A Sud et al. By Riccardo Luporini, Matteo Fermeglia, and Maria Antonia Tigre. Italy , see here for some early reflections on the case).

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 11, 2022

The researchers found that the world could meet the targets for 2030 set by the 2015 Paris climate agreement — with the proviso that the strategies detailed in the accord be fully adopted, a goal that would require concerted action to identify and remove adoption barriers and implement the strategies. degrees Fahrenheit.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 19, 2023

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. Just 3% of generated electricity in the 2022 fiscal year came from non-hydropower renewables. First published in The Third Pole.

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