HumanNature

MARCH 11, 2024

Guest Post by Vedanshi Nevatia , 2023-2024 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph. 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.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 7, 2023

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. Posted: June 7, 2023] PA Environment Digest The built environment accounts for approximately 37% of global CO2 emissions and 39% of all U.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Rising temperatures are disrupting ecosystems around the world, with 2023 witnessing some of the most extreme weather events to date, including the hottest day and month ever recorded and drastically reduced Antarctic ice. Responding to the climate crisis is undeniably urgent.

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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. In a written reply to parliament in August 2023, the coal minister stated that a “major leap in coal production over the years has been witnessed”.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 22, 2024

We can become a leader in clean energy supply and manufacture the products the world needs to live more sustainably. Other policies could encourage clean energy projects that hire apprentices or unionized workers and provide direct support to Indigenous nations for ownership of projects.

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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. This edition of Energy Futures is set to be released in late spring 2023.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Canada’s financial institutions are among the largest funders of fossil fuels in the world, and continue to underinvest in clean energy. The climate crisis has already cost billions of dollars in 2023. Survey findings come from a Pollara online survey of 1,519 adult Canadians, fielded between August 23 and September 5, 2023.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

“If the federal government wants to keep its promises to Canadians about climate action, it has to regulate the financial sector in a way that aligns with Paris Agreement commitments,” added Julie Segal, Senior Manager, Climate Finance, Environmental Defence.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

In response to the report, the bank told TBIJ that its investments remain “science-based,” under a presumption that “net zero-aligned scenarios require continued, though declining, financing of fossil fuel supplies to meet energy demand, security, and affordability during the transition.” It was another corporate spit in the face of science.

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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

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The amendment significantly reduced the participation of autonomous energy operators in the energy sector, directly affecting the supply of renewable energy. Uniper’s ICSID proceedings are currently paused until January 2023. the Netherlands ). In RWE and Uniper v.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The IEA World Energy Outlook 2023 , International Energy Agency’s annual report, which makes clear that without concerted action, current global energy choices are causing us to hurtle toward a 2.4˚C Committing to tripling renewable energy and doubling energy efficiency globally by 2030. billion in 2021.

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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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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 18, 2023

VJEL Newsroom Announcing VJEL's 2024 Top 10 Environmental Watch List By VJEL December 18, 2023 The Vermont Journal of Environmental Law (VJEL) is pleased to announce the publication of its 2024 Top 10 Environmental Watch List. Because of this backlog, FERC promulgated Order 2023 – RM22-14-000 to speed up this process.

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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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Manning Law

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Although criticized for half measures and loopholes, blamed in part on the influence of petrostates, the agreement reached at the conference should be welcomed as a significant step in the move away from fossil fuels. But it notes Parties are off track when it comes to meeting their Paris Agreement goals. C temperature limit. “We

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 19, 2022

Ottawa | Traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People- A coalition of environmental, health, and social justice groups are calling on Minister of Environment and Climate Change Steven Guilbeault to ban the export of thermal coal from Canadian ports by 2023 and to release a roadmap of this ban on Earth Day.

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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. April 21, 2023.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 28, 2024

Attending on the proxy of a climate-conscious shareholder, my colleague Laura Peterson plans to ask one question of Chevron: In the first six months of 2023, Chevron directed between $2.5 million to a group new to Chevron’s trade association disclosures—Californians for Energy Independence.

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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 full suite of current policies on the books as of June 2023 drives U.S. Biden signed on Aug.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 27, 2024

Announcing recently that the world broke a record by generating 30 percent of all electricity from renewable sources in 2023, the British think tank Ember said the data proves we are in a “new era” of energy in which a permanent decline in fossil fuels is “inevitable.” percent in 2015 to nearly 8 percent in 2023.

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ESA

APRIL 11, 2022

Despite that scrap, the takeaway remains constant — there is no hope of stopping global warming at the Paris Agreement limits of 1.5 degree limit of the Paris Agreement is a pipe dream unless emissions peak in the coming three years and fall by almost half from 2019 levels by 2030, the scientists said. Halting at 1.5

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