A Greener Life

DECEMBER 19, 2024

In 2024, Chinas oil demand is expected to reach 756 million tonnes, marking a modest 0.04% year-on-year increase. The country has so far pledged to peak greenhouse gas emissions before 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality by 2060. The forecast reflects Chinas broader commitment to addressing climate change and transforming its economy.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

However, the Supreme Court found that the Spanish Government had complied with the Paris Agreement and the EU legislation. Background of Spanish Climate Policy In 2016, the EU ratified the Paris Agreement, which calls on Parties to submit their National Determined Contributions (NDCs) every five years. compared to 2005.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 29, 2023

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 Court rendered an opinion almost 19 months after the submission of the request. What can we expect?

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Law Columbia

MAY 22, 2024

On May 21, 2024, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) delivered a long-awaited Advisory Opinion on climate change and international law. The Role of the Paris Agreement One dispute between those filing submissions was over the role of the Paris Agreement.

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OCTOBER 25, 2024

to 2 o C in line with the goals of the Paris Agreement. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has concluded that CDR will be needed, alongside deep emissions cuts, to limit global warming to 1.5

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 5, 2024

But they aren’t the only powerful players who shoulder responsibility for keeping us hooked on fossil fuels, the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions. There’s a direct line of culpability between fossil fuel corporations and climate change – it’s why so many oil and gas CEOs have topped our list of Climate Villains. billion CAD.

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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.

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 6, 2023

degrees C target that world leaders agreed upon in the Paris Agreement of 2015. WMO Secretary-General Peterri Taalas laid the facts bare, stating: “Greenhouse gas levels are record high. Even though there’s a month left of 2023, VMO feels confident enough to make the call that will leave us only 0.1

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A Greener Life

JUNE 12, 2024

But, despite the record sum, a report by the World Bank warned that prices are still too low to drive the changes needed to meet the targets set out in the 2015 Paris Agreement. And they are now covering around 24% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The number of carbon pricing systems around the world is on the rise.

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 26, 2023

New federal regulations, the Clean Fuel Regulations, have come into force that require oil refiners to reduce their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. These regulations play a crucial role in Canada’s efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and fulfill commitments under the Paris Agreement to limit global warming.

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Law Columbia

MAY 24, 2024

But the first international advisory opinion on climate change—delivered by ITLOS in its decision of 21 May 2024 —suggests a more hopeful outcome. On one view, this might seem to set the stage for the exacerbation of a fragmented international legal response, ‘undermining the foundations of future cooperation combating climate change’.

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Law Columbia

MAY 27, 2024

Introduction ‘Historic’ and ‘unprecedented’ are two adjectives that could easily apply to the advisory opinion rendered by the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) on May 21, 2024. The findings of ITLOS thus resulted from an interpretation of UNCLOS alone and not from a joint reading of UNCLOS and the Paris Agreement.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 7, 2024

Subsequent research progressively shed light on the impacts of anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) on ocean chemistry and ecosystems, such as coral bleaching, marine biodiversity loss, and acidification. The opinion clearly states that complying with the Paris Agreement is not sufficient for compliance with UNCLOS (para.

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Law Columbia

MAY 29, 2024

The Advisory Opinion handed down by the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) on 21 May 2024 is truly remarkable. Its clarification that all anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHGs) emissions, from any source, constitute marine pollution has potentially far-reaching consequences. of the Paris Agreement.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 17, 2024

Past polls have indicated high levels of concern about the economy – the broader issues such as taxes, unemployment and investment – but in 2024, those concerns have narrowed to become hyper-local. The short story: Climate change is on track to cost the global economy $38 trillion a year in damages within the next 25 years.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 10, 2024

The three much-awaited judgments issued by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on April 9, 2024 are truly historic and unprecedented. the Indian Supreme Court in March 2024). In Verein Klimaseniorinnen Schweiz and Others v. The Court also found a violation of Article 6 ECHR, the right of access to court.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Through this resolution, the executive director of the UN Environmental Program (UNEP) was tasked with convening a committee to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution that addresses the full lifecycle of plastic, with the ambition of completing the draft of this agreement by the end of 2024.

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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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Manning Law

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The stocktake recognizes the science that indicates global greenhouse gas emissions need to be cut 43% by 2030, compared to 2019 levels, to limit global warming to 1.5°C. But it notes Parties are off track when it comes to meeting their Paris Agreement goals. C temperature limit. “We degree world.”

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 28, 2024

Union of India (2024) is groundbreaking as it both recognizes environmental rights as absolute and fundamental, and offers a constitutional protection from the adverse effects of climate change under Articles 14 and 21 of the Constitution of India ( Constitution ).

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Law Columbia

MAY 24, 2024

On May 21, 2024, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) released its long-awaited advisory opinion on climate change. The first, known as greenhouse gas (GHG) removal , seeks to mitigate climate change by pulling GHGs – most commonly carbon dioxide – out of the atmosphere and durably storing them.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

The latest data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ( NOAA ) and the EU’s Copernicus climate service show that the 2024 January-August period is the hottest ever by far, putting this year well on track to be the warmest ever on record. of the Paris Agreement ). What does climate ambition mean in 2024?

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

has only indicated support for a two-year process for broad discussions on financial arrangements for loss and damage with an uncertain outcome in 2024. to come to an agreement. As always, sharp cuts in heat-trapping emissions are a core priority for global climate action, and to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 24, 2024

The General Assembly requested that the ICJ render an opinion on: (i) the obligations of States under international law to ensure the protection of the climate system and other parts of the environment from greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and (ii) the legal consequences for States that have caused significant harm to the climate system.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

This blog post was authored by 2024 Sabin Center Summer Intern, Arpana Giritharan, with input and supervision from Johanna Lovecchio, Director of Program Design for Climate Action and Adjunct Professor at Columbia Climate School, and Romany Webb, Deputy Director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Shell case, for instance, the Dutch courts upheld the ruling that Shell must act to reduce emissions in line with the Paris Agreement. In 2024, lawsuits were increasingly filed in response to catastrophic events, including the Maui wildfires , which devastated communities and underscored systemic vulnerabilities.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 16, 2025

Elected officials from four federal parties had supported a motion in the house of commons that the government should use all legislative and regulatory tools at its disposal to align Canadas financial system with the Paris Agreement made by the Conference of Parties under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 17, 2025

Only 13 of the 195 signatory countries to the Paris Agreement submitted new national plans for tackling climate change by the recent deadline. withdrawing from that agreement again. We released a Blueprint in October 2024 for what this could look like, which we will be building on throughout the year toward COP30 in Brazil.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 3, 2024

Thomas Pyle is president of the Institute for Energy Research, which was formed by Charles Koch and has received donations from companies like Exxon to publish papers opposing climate science and any efforts to control greenhouse gasses. She served as Chief of Staff to EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler in the Trump administration.

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JANUARY 24, 2025

For example, Section 60103 of the IRA , which establishes the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) , specifies that $15 billion of the $27 billion allocated to the GGRF should be used for the purposes of providing financial assistance and technical assistance in low-income and disadvantaged communities. Paris targets.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2024

It’s hard to believe that in 2024, one of the two major candidates for the Presidency of the United States is spewing this pablum. He’ll try to curb California’s power to cut greenhouse gases from cars and trucks. He’ll try to curb California’s power to cut greenhouse gases from cars and trucks. And it’s not just talk.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 13, 2024

Nor would Biden’s reentry into the Paris Agreement. One measure that was discussed in his first Administration was to repeal EPA’s finding that greenhouse gases endanger human welfare, which is the basis for EPA’s power to regulate carbon emissions. But 2024 isn’t 2020.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 12, 2024

Trump: What did you accomplish by withdrawing from the Paris Agreement, which sets international climate targets but is largely non-binding? are the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitters. It’s been out for many months. Is it fair to say that you approve of this plan? Both: China and the U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 22, 2025

In September 2024, though, a story in The Guardian linked American Energy Institute to Federalist Society chairman Leonard Leo, whom watchdog organization Citizens for Ethics describe as synonymous with the right-wing effort to remake the American judiciary and thenAmerican societymore broadly.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

We know now that Donald Trump will take office as the United States’ 47th president this January, and that his stated desires for federal climate policy include withdrawing from the Paris Agreement , easing restrictions on oil drilling , and “rescind[ing] all unspent” Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) funds.

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