Frontiers

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

As Lars Peter Riishøjgaard , director of the Global Greenhouse Gas Watch, said: “We are not treating this as a scientific problem, which is what the text of the Paris Agreement actually says that we should.” This is especially important in the context of the current climate crisis.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 13, 2023

A new wave of cases differs from traditional environmental lawsuits by highlighting the connections between preserving the Amazon and the climate, the grave risk of greenhouse gas emissions caused by deforestation, and the critical role of the forest as a major global carbon sink. The timing of these climate disputes is not accidental.

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Capaccio

JANUARY 11, 2024

The 2023 United Nations Conference of the Parties (COP28) marked the first Global Stock take to assess progress toward the Paris Agreement since its ratification in 2015 at COP21. What Does COP28 Mean for the Private Sector? What’s Next?

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Law Columbia

APRIL 4, 2024

Here, we define the Ambition Gap as the difference between the emissions reductions expected from a government’s planned policies and pledges, and those required to meet the long-term temperature goals of the Paris Agreement, in light of best available science. C temperature target within reach. C temperature target within reach.

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 6, 2023

In its provisional State of the Global Climate report, they confirmed, that not only is 2023 on track to be the warmest year on record by a large margin, but they also expect we will reach 1.4 Even though there’s a month left of 2023, VMO feels confident enough to make the call that will leave us only 0.1 degrees C of breaching the 1.5

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Law Columbia

MARCH 29, 2023

On March 29, 2023, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopted a resolution requesting an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the obligations of States with respect to climate change. On March 1, 2023, Vanuatu announced overwhelming support for the draft resolution with 105 co-sponsor states.

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 5, 2023

The recent boost for CDR is linked to an emerging trend in climate policy which understands CDR as supplemental to urgent action on decarbonization and overall greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions (rather than a replacement for those activities). The Paris Agreement did not reference or define CDR, nor did it define the term “removals.”

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Arnold Porter

MARCH 15, 2023

Arnold & Porter Environmental partner Sarah Grey was named to the Denver Business Journal 's 2023 "40 Under 40" list. The annual report recognizes 40 of Denver's "outstanding local professionals under age 40 for their business success and community contributions."

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

National commitments made last week at the COP26 climate conference to cut heat-trapping greenhouse gas emissions would warm the planet by 1.8 That is more ambitious than earlier pledges, but it still exceeds the Paris agreement goal of 1.5 degrees Celsius , according to the International Energy Agency.

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Clean Energy Law

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Green , James Bee , and Kevin Mak On 3 December 2023, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) unveiled the Singapore-Asia Taxonomy for Sustainable Finance (Taxonomy) at the United Nations COP28 climate conference in Dubai. beyond those that have already been signed by December 2023). Davies , Farhana Sharmeen , Michael D.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 16, 2024

Increased Policy-Relevant Assessments: With 2023 being the warmest year on record and record-breaking climate extremes experienced around the world, the urgency among the delegates here is palpable. While the IPCC is independent of any policymaking, the outputs are critical to inform policy work. What will future meetings look like?

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A Greener Life

JUNE 1, 2023

Earlier this month, the UN warned that it is near-certain that 2023-2027 will be the warmest five-year period ever recorded, as greenhouse gasses and El Nino combine to send temperatures soaring. Several other Chinese cities also broke heat records on Monday.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Representatives from civil society, non-governmental organizations and the private sector gathered alongside governmental representatives to influence decisions and advance contributions toward the goals of the Paris Agreement of 2015. I was joined by Ocean Conservancy colleagues working to advance ocean-climate action. Green Shipping.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Course correction: 2023 is ‘Global Stocktake’ year. That means countries will be undertaking the first official assessment of their progress on meeting the goals of the Paris Agreement since it was signed in 2015. For example, we are still not doing as much as our peers in terms of reducing greenhouse gas pollution.

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Acoel

MAY 1, 2023

Posted on May 1, 2023 by Amy Edwards As we celebrate the 54 th anniversary of Earth Day, it is hard to imagine where we will be 54 years from now. In 2019, after the United States had withdrawn from the Paris Agreement, the American Bar Association (ABA) House of Delegates adopted a climate change resolution (No.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Although the country has said it will go all renewable from 2023, its current construction of lignite power plants will generate emissions for decades. In what sounds like a tall promise, Indonesia’s state-owned electricity company Perusahaan Listrik Negara said earlier this year it would build only renewable energy plants after 2023.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

At COP28 , on 9 December, India’s environment and climate change minister Bhupender Yadav affirmed the country’s “trust and confidence” in the Paris Agreement , whilst highlighting the country’s achievements in emissions reduction. To boost domestic supply rather than be reliant on coal, India has aggressively expanded its coal mines.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 2, 2024

degrees Celsius (the stretch goal in the Paris Agreement of keeping the world’s average surface temperature to no more than 1.5 The case was relinquished to the Grand Chamber in April 2022, and the hearing took place in March 2023 ( webcast ). Duarte Agostinho and Others v.

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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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Law Columbia

JUNE 26, 2023

Coal-Fired power plants targeted at the case, taken by Attorney Shunsuke Sugit In March 2023, two important decisions regarding the operation of newly built coal-fired power plants were handed down by courts in Japan. Citizens’ Committee on the Kobe Coal-Fired Power Plant v. Kobelco Power Kobe No. and Kansai Electric Power Co.,

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

King calls for immediate testing and deployment of often-controversial carbon removal techniques to begin drawing down atmospheric greenhouse gases by tens of billions of tonnes per year. Human-caused climate change has run down the clock and soon there will be no time left to meet the goals set under the 2015 Paris agreement,” he writes.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The goal is to rehabilitate 150,000 hectares of degraded mangrove this year, and a total of 600,000 hectares by 2023. This has resulted in a decline in fisheries health, more soil erosion and greenhouse gas emissions, as soil carbon, escapes into the atmosphere where mangroves are cut down or killed. Currently, Indonesia has about 3.2

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Colombia accounts for 0.4 % of the global greenhouse gas emissions (“GHG”). Law 1844 of 2017 on the Paris Agreement. The framework binds Colombia to international agreements, including the UNFCCC (Law 164 of 1994), the Kyoto Protocol (Law 629 of 2000) and the Paris Agreement (Law 1844 of 2017).

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Law Columbia

JUNE 21, 2023

The country is the largest greenhouse gas (GHG) emitter on the African continent , ranked in the top 15 globally, with higher per capita emissions than many developed countries. 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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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Some of HSBC’s dealings were on behalf of Saudi Aramco, the world’s second-ranked company in Fortune’s Global 500 and often dubbed the world’s biggest polluter for being the largest corporate emitter of greenhouse gases. trillion into oil and gas development in the Global South in the seven years since the Paris Agreement was signed.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Despite accounting for just 5 per cent of Canada’s economy, the oil and gas sector is the largest and fastest growing source of climate pollution, accounting for 27 per cent of Canada’s domestic greenhouse gas emissions. This was reaffirmed by the Net-Zero Advisory Body in their first annual report to Minister Guilbeault in January 2023.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

A tradition developed in previous COPs is to have a day dedicated to issues of key importance, and 4 December 2023 has been allocated to the discussion of climate finance. Fossil fuels alone – coal, oil and gas – account for over 75% of global greenhouse gas emissions.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 24, 2023

This edition of Energy Futures is set to be released in late spring 2023. To ensure that the CER’s new net-zero scenario offers a suitable pathway that is aligned with the goals of the Paris Agreement, it must include the following principles: Alignment with 1.5 Why is this important?

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Ocean Conservancy

APRIL 29, 2022

The GGGI made three major commitments : to procure new GGGI member governments ; to add more than half a million data records for the GGGI Data Portal; and to secure significant financial investment by 2023. © Felipe Victoria(Ocean Conservancy).

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 22, 2022

In Australia and New Zealand, plaintiffs failed to establish that there is a government’s duty of care to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. Uniper’s ICSID proceedings are currently paused until January 2023. In Australia, the Full Federal Court overturned a lower court’s decision in Sharma and others v. the Netherlands ).

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Frontiers

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

within reach – so we can meet the goals and ambitions of the Paris Agreement. The article examines the concept of zero emissions commitment (ZEC), which quantifies the amount of global warming that would occur after greenhouse gas emissions are reduced to zero.

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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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HumanNature

APRIL 10, 2023

Guest Post by Kathryn Moore , 2022-2023 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. The Paris Agreement is an international treaty adopted at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in 2015, with the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 °C Retrieved March 31, 2023, from [link] Aerosols: Tiny Particles, Big Impact.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 14, 2023

C-aligned menus served at COP28—centered around plant-based foods, and referencing the Paris Agreement commitment to limit warming to 1.5 Mariam bint Mohammed Almheiri of the host country UAE, put a fine point on it: “To achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement, to keep 1.5C The organizers touted so-called 1.5°C-aligned

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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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Acoel

JANUARY 7, 2022

commitments to the Paris Agreement calls for an 80% reduction of electric power greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. As the recovery period is reduced to meet a 2035 phase-out, annual capital recovery increases from $121 million (2023 startup) to $560 million (2033 startup). Posted on January 7, 2022 by Eugene M.

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