Union of Concerned Scientists
JANUARY 30, 2024
This is drawing bio-based diesel fuel out of other states and putting California and federal fuel policies into a vicious cycle that is contributing to ever more unsustainable and expensive fuel policies. California may seem like an unlikely driver of deforestation from soybean and palm oil biofuels. billion gallons.
Real Climate
AUGUST 25, 2023
Even if there were just (say) a 40% chance that the Ditlevsen study is correct in the tipping point being reached between 2025 and 2095, that’s a major change to the previous IPCC assessment that the risk is less than 10%. In 2022, the G20 governments alone subsidised fossil fuel use with 1.4
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A Greener Life
APRIL 11, 2022
They added that due to the increase in climate-friendly policies and laws we have seen enhanced energy efficiency, reduced deforestation rates and accelerated the deployment of renewable energy. They pointed to the fact that since 2010 the cost of solar, wind and battery technology has decreased by up to 85%.
Law Columbia
DECEMBER 1, 2021
Through the Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) published in 2016, Brazil committed to reducing GHG emissions by 37% by 2025 and by 43% by 2030 as compared to a 2005 baseline. While Brazil achieved its emission reduction goal from the NPCC, the reduction targets of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest were not fulfilled.
Legal Planet
JULY 5, 2023
A 2022 Rainforest Action Network repor t found that “fossil fuel financing from the world’s 60 largest banks has reached USD $4.6 trillion in the six years since the adoption of the Paris Agreement, with $742 billion in fossil fuel financing in 2021 alone.” The biggest US bank investors in fossil fuels? “At
Legal Planet
DECEMBER 17, 2021
At this meeting it was confirmed that these would generally follow a 5-year cycle , with updated NDCs submitted by 2025 covering plans for 2030-2035, submitted by 2030 to cover 2035-2040, and so on. One example is the first explicit mention of fossil fuels as the main driver of climate change and a statement of resolve to cut them.
Law Columbia
NOVEMBER 9, 2021
More than 100 countries p ledged to end and reverse deforestation by 2030. Perhaps even more so than the methane pledge, effort will be needed to ensure the deforestation pledge is met. This came alongside a separate commitment to end public financing for “unabated” fossil fuel projects by the end of 2022.
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