Clean Energy Law

JANUARY 17, 2024

The Eligibility List followed the signing of an inaugural Article 6 implementation agreement with Papua New Guinea on carbon credits cooperation. Accordingly, each respective agreement will outline the structure and procedures for producing and transferring carbon credits in accordance with Article 6 of the Paris Agreement.

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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 5, 2022

Yet the seasonal shifts that typically occur in September 2022 were punctuated by several significant melt events on the Greenland ice sheet. Surface ice melt Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat) on September 5, 2022 (Video by B. Ice calving from the Eqi Glacier (Eqip Sermia) in Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat) on September 3, 2022 (video by B.

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Legal Planet

JULY 5, 2023

According to the Center for International Environmental Law as of April 2023, the World Bank “has financed and incentivized up to $165 billion in fossil fuel investments since the Paris Agreement was signed [in 2015].” The biggest US bank investors in fossil fuels? “At

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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. I was wrong.”

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Legal Planet

JUNE 2, 2022

In sharp contrast with their American counterparts, British conservatives remain firmly behind the Paris Agreement and supportive of cap-and-trade. Scotland set a 2020 goal of 100% renewable energy electricity generation. The government also released an “Energy Strategy Action Plan in 2022.

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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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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

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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

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. At the time, this seemed like a failure.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

–Sean Post, JD 2022. –Kelsey Manes, JD 2022. goal of the Paris Agreement, but I do think that it will be possible for us to keep warming under 2C and avoid the most devastating effects of climate change. –Richard Diaz, Master of Public Policy candidate, 2022. –Polina Hristova, LLM 2022.

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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. But over the past 10 years, Cuba’s policymakers have identified some potential pathways towards a clean and resilient energy system.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

It’s worth delving into because it has some important implications for our clean energy future. By 2050, gas plants operate at less than 6 percent of their rated capacity during the year compared to more than 38 percent for all gas plants in 2022, according to the Energy Information Administration (EIA).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Under the 2015 Paris Agreement, the United States voluntarily pledged to reduce its global warming emissions at least 50 percent below their 2005 levels by the end of this decade and reach net-zero emissions no later than 2050. Their report, however, comes with a warning. That would be potentially disastrous.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Despite a significant uptake of renewable energy, India still relies on coal plants for more than half of its installed electricity supply. 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.

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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. We now know several things we did not in August of 2022 when Biden signed the climate law. Biden signed on Aug.

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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). Renewable energy policies create stronger renewable industries, which then push for even stronger policies.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Unfortunately these energy scenarios become a self-fulfilling prophecy: the CER misdirects investment into fossil fuels, which in turn locks in the dangerously high levels of fossil fuel demand and supply that its scenarios project.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 11, 2023

And did you know that Corson was Canada’s top-paid energy CEO last year, with earnings of over $17 million?! In 2022, RBC provided more financing to oil and gas companies than any other bank in the world. The list also includes Dave McKay , the CEO of RBC (aka Mr. Money Bags).

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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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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. In short, past Energy Futures have modelled climate failure.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 21, 2023

All of this makes the transition to cheap, renewable energy a necessity for the country. It also recognised that South Africa had international law obligations flowing from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Agreement.

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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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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

They might have a business person at the centre of the story, whether it is the Indian green energy entrepreneur, Sumant Sinha, or even the tech billionaire Bill Gates, but the issues are about government policies.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 21, 2022

Let’s make 2022 the last year that Canada exports thermal coal . We have the technology to replace coal with cheaper, healthier, and cleaner renewable energy. degree goal of the Paris Agreement. This commitment was reiterated in the mandate letters to ministers. .

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 25, 2022

C carbon budget set forth in the 2015 Paris Agreement, countries must reduce CO2 emissions in the entire [existing] built environment by 50-65% by 2030 and reach zero carbon by 2040. The built environment accounts for approximately 28% of global CO2 emissions and 40% of all U.

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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 BOGA members acknowledge, “It’s not easy… it’s expensive… it requires a lot of dialogue, schooling, training and investment in renewable energy… but it is a just transition that produces jobs.”

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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. The bottom line: There’s still a long way to go, and the clean energy transition must move quicker than it has been—despite the fossil fuel industry’s self-serving claims to the contrary.

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Breezometer

JUNE 7, 2022

2022: What Does the Latest IPCC Report Say? Recent findings from the World Meteorological Organization predict a 50:50 chance at least one year between 2022 and 2026 will exceed 1.5°C As the graph shows, policies on land-use, agriculture, and renewable energy hold a lot of potential for net GHG emissions reduction.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 31, 2022

C carbon budget set forth in the 2015 Paris Agreement, countries must reduce CO2 emissions in the entire [existing] built environment by 50-65% by 2030 and reach zero carbon by 2040. Powered entirely by solar energy, the fire station’s solar array is expected to generate 108% of the annual power needed by the facility.

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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. In 2022 , the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP) alone had $21.72 The financial sector in Canada is happy to continue financing this runaway train to climate chaos.

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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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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Law 1715 of 2014 on non-conventional renewable energy sources. Law 1844 of 2017 on the Paris Agreement. Resolution 40807 of 2018 of the Ministry of Mines and Energy on the Climate Change Management Plan for the Energy Sector. Among the main legal statutes are: Law 164 of 1994 on the UNFCCC.

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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.

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Acoel

JULY 25, 2022

Posted on July 25, 2022 by Steven Chester. For instance, executive orders could be issued to set goals for achieving economy-wide carbon neutrality by 2050, to establish targets for renewable energy use in state owned facilities, and to require the purchase of electric vehicles for state auto fleets.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 19, 2022

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. . Julia Levin, National Climate Program Manager, Environmental Defence, said: We have the solutions and the know-how to quickly replace coal with renewable energy.

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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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