Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Here are the basics: The Pledge aims to achieve a collective goal of reducing global methane emissions by at least 30 percent below 2020 levels by 2030. A worldwide methane emission reduction of 30 percent by 2030 could reduce global warming by.22

2030

Legal Planet

JUNE 4, 2021

its district, appellate , and supreme courts decided in favor of Urgenda, an upstart environmental organization, ordering the government to more aggressively reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Environmental Protection Agency (2007) forced the EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. Everyone produces greenhouse gases.

Carbon Dioxide

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Here too, the picture is bleak: with the current NDCs, by 2030 we will have nearly run out of the budget to have a 50 percent chance of keeping the temperature increase below 1.5?C. The World Meteorological Organization Greenhouse Gas Bulletin. Source: UN Climate Change 2022 NDC Synthesis Report. The UNEP Emissions Gap Report.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

JULY 25, 2023

Methane has a comparatively short life in the atmosphere (about 12 years, as opposed to 100 years or more for CO2) and high potency (84 times stronger than CO2, averaged over 20 years). The latter policy requires a 40% reduction of methane emissions across all sectors by 2030. The rest of the world is starting to catch up.

Deforestation

Inside Climate News

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Steep reductions in emissions of methane—which traps 81 times as much heat as carbon dioxide in the first 20 years in the atmosphere—are among the most important steps for slowing climate change in the short term. By Phil McKenna The U.S.

Regulations

Legal Planet

AUGUST 17, 2021

Methane is the second most important greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide, responsible for fully 25 percent of warming. It is also known as natural gas – a product with economic value, estimated to be $30 billion — that we are squandering in massive quantities into the atmosphere. Some Methane Facts.

Atmosphere

Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 7, 2024

In the process of fracking, a lot of methane gas escapes into the atmosphere. Further, Enbridge employees report that the gas monopoly often leaves pipeline leaks unaddressed, sometimes for months on end, letting methane seep into the atmosphere. Methane is over 80 times more potent than CO2 over a 20 year period.

Natural Gas

A Greener Life

JANUARY 18, 2022

Atmospheric CO2 levels at record highs. Globally, the levels of CO2 and methane which are the main greenhouse gases continued to climb, and both hit record highs in 2021. Levels of CO2 in the atmosphere reached 414.3 Levels of CO2 in the atmosphere reached 414.3 parts per million in 2021, up by around 2.4

Atmosphere

Breezometer

JUNE 7, 2022

Understanding Climate Change & Greenhouse Gas Emissions. The greenhouse effect is a popular name for the earth’s warming effect which occurs naturally when gasses in the atmosphere trap heat from the sun and prevent it from escaping back into space. Greenhouse Gas Emissions are Increasing.

Climate Change

Frontiers

JULY 15, 2022

His research is focused on several topics of the atmospheric physics, the numerical simulation of coastal fronts, and severe meteorological events. In addition, he is currently Deputy Mayor of energy transition, mobility, and city cleaning management in Viladecans, a municipality of the metropolitan area of Barcelona.

Greenhouse

Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Steven Guilbeault has to hit the ground running if he’s going to implement a plan that allows his government to achieve its promise of zero plastic waste by 2030. . Plastic is made almost entirely from fossil fuels in a process that releases greenhouse gases — which is why plastic is being called the new coal. .

Recycling

Physics World

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The promise from many nations is to reach net-zero greenhouse-gas emissions by 2050 (or earlier) and interim targets are essential. But the United Nations has just said that the latest commitments of the 192 parties of the 2015 Paris agreement will equate to a 16% rise in global greenhouse-gas emissions in 2030 compared to 2010.

Paris Agreement

Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

In a previous blog post , I briefly reviewed some of the innovative strategies to reduce methane emissions from agricultural livestock and rice operations, which have the potential to combat a significant source of global greenhouse gas emissions. This appears to be the only national level agricultural methane target currently in law.

Renewable Energy

Law Columbia

MAY 4, 2023

Global mean temperature change caused by rising atmospheric GHG levels is conventionally measured out to 2100. For example, efforts to stabilize atmospheric GHGs have converged on a global mean temperature threshold of 1.5 These long-lived assets also emit greenhouse gasses or produce goods that do.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Under the LCFS each fuel pathway gets a unique carbon intensity (CI) based on a lifecycle analysis of the greenhouse gas emissions associated with the production and use of the fuel. 2030 California Renewable Natural Gas Outlook: Resource Assessment, Market Opportunities, And Environmental Performance. ii] O’Malley, J., Pavlenko, Y.H.

Fossil Fuels

Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Methane is a really powerful greenhouse gas: it’s 86 times more powerful than carbon dioxide. When companies dig for and and transport fossil gas, methane leaks into the atmosphere (often referred to as fugitive methane). Why is that such a big deal? Gas flaring at an oil and gas facility.

Carbon Dioxide

Ivy Protocol

MAY 18, 2023

According to the World Bank (2022), it is estimated that nature-based solutions have the potential to contribute 37% of the required mitigation measures until 2030 to meet the targets set by the Paris Agreement. These innovators are creating technology to extract CO2 directly from the atmosphere or prevent its release in the first place.

2023

Washington Nature

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The latest science coming from a partnership between The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and the University of Washington (UW) highlights ways nature can help Washington achieve its net-zero greenhouse gas emissions goal by midcentury. million metric tons of CO2 annually by midcentury, accounting for over 9 percent of the state’s net-zero goal.

Climate Change

Law Columbia

MAY 10, 2024

C above pre-industrial levels, (6) to specify what this entails, namely: ensuring a [greenhouse gas (GHG)] emission level in 2030 that is net-negative as compared to the emissions in 1990; reducing domestic emissions by 61% below 1990 levels by 2030, and to net-zero by 2050, as the domestic component of a.;

Climate Change

A Greener Life

JULY 15, 2022

“This is bound to affect crops like maize, too, which is sensitive to temperature and moisture,” he says, cautioning that global maize yields are expected to decline by as much as 24% by 2030. While rice yields are expected to decline due to rising temperatures, rice paddies are also among the biggest emitters of methane, a greenhouse gas.

Climate Change

Enviromental Defense

MAY 31, 2023

Fossil gas, which is used for heating, electricity, and industrial processes, is responsible for one third of Ontario’s greenhouse gas emissions and is harmful to human health. The province’s gas ramp-up is projected to increase electricity-sector emissions by over 400 per cent by 2030 and by almost 800 per cent by 2040.

Electricity

A Greener Life

APRIL 19, 2023

In the face of research that meat and milk are high in greenhouse gas emissions , companies are angling for new ways to reach eco-conscious consumers. Products that bear the label “carbon neutral” are supposed to be produced with no added emissions to the atmosphere. Photo credit: Sentient Media. What does carbon neutral mean?

Deforestation

Law Columbia

MARCH 15, 2023

has committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 50 to 52 percent by 2030. has also developed a long-term strategy for achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Scientists have proposed several different ocean CDR techniques that extract carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and durably store it.

Carbon Dioxide

The Energy Law

OCTOBER 5, 2020

By ratifying the 2015 Paris Agreement, [1] nations across the world made a commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by at least 40% by the year 2030. Carbon dioxide is one of the primary greenhouse gases found in the Earth’s atmosphere, accounting for 76% of global greenhouse gas emissions according to published reports.

Carbon Dioxide

A Greener Life

APRIL 4, 2024

By Anders Lorenzen The emissions from methane , a powerful greenhouse gas (GHG) with 80 times the warming potential of carbon dioxide (CO2) rose in 2023 despite several pledges and initiatives to reduce emissions. Graph credit: IEA.

2023

Physics World

MARCH 16, 2022

Together with colleagues, he has analysed Australian astronomers’ total greenhouse-gas emissions over 2018–2019 from “regular activities” such as travelling, using supercomputers and working at large observatories. Just ask Adam Stevens , an astrophysicist at the University of Western Australia. Source of the problem.

2019

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 11, 2021

Greg Vitali Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas and Pennsylvania’s oil and gas industry is a major methane emitter. Urgent steps must be taken to reduce methane emissions this decade” and the “fossil fuel sector has the greatest potential for targeted mitigation by 2030,” said a recent report by the U.N. Read more here.

Regulations

Enviromental Defense

MAY 18, 2021

TAKE ACTION : Tell Ontario’s Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) that you support the phase-out of polluting gas powered electricity by 2030. The IESO, Ontario’s electricity system operator, now forecasts a rise in electricity emissions from a current 4 mega tonnes to about 12 mega tonnes by 2030, and about 16 by 2040.

Electricity

A Greener Life

APRIL 1, 2022

It’s now widely acknowledged that to avoid catastrophic climate change we’ll need to physically remove CO2 from the atmosphere. To keep global warming at or below 1.5C – above which will see the disappearance of coral reefs and low-lying island nations, as well as other adverse outcomes – emissions need to be dramatically reduced by 2030.

Ocean

HumanNature

APRIL 10, 2023

Student in the Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University Most people remember the water cycle they learned in school: water evaporates from lakes, rivers, and the ocean, air carrying this moisture rises, cools, condenses, and forms clouds, and these clouds precipitate water back down to the surface.

Climate Change

The Energy Law

OCTOBER 5, 2020

By ratifying the 2015 Paris Agreement, [1] nations across the world made a commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by at least 40% by the year 2030. Carbon dioxide is one of the primary greenhouse gases found in the Earth’s atmosphere, accounting for 76% of global greenhouse gas emissions according to published reports.

Carbon Dioxide

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 17, 2022

Pitt has already made substantial progress in reducing its carbon footprint: The most recent greenhouse gas inventory showed a 32% decrease in emissions between 2008 and 2020, thanks in part to a shift to cleaner steam plants and ongoing energy efficiency projects in campus buildings.

Clean Energy

Acoel

JANUARY 18, 2022

Most notably, thousands of corporations announced net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) pledges and hundreds of banks and other financial institutions committed to conform their lending to the requirements for a 2050 net-zero GHG world.

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Ocean Conservancy

JUNE 9, 2022

City Opportunity Statement Summaries: Can Tho, Vietnam: Vietnam aims to reduce 75% of marine plastic debris by 2030 by eliminating single-use plastics and non-biodegradable plastic bags from all coastal tourism areas. These statements also included project outlines and anticipated support needed to carry out the plans.

Ocean

Vermont Law

JULY 31, 2023

The social cost of carbon is an economic tool used to determine how much the cost is, in dollars, of emitting another ton of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. As carbon dioxide builds up in the atmosphere, it also traps heat surrounding the planet. The damage this heat creates is SCC. In total, the “War on Terror” released 1.2

Carbon Dioxide

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

There is more likely an LNG glut globally than a need for more. -- Unneeded Facilities Will Stand Unused: The Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis reports by 2030 the rejection of LNG by current buyers could leave unneeded infrastructure standing and unused.

Natural Gas

Ocean Conservancy

DECEMBER 5, 2022

By 2030, plastic production will contribute 1.3 billion tons of greenhouse gas emissions into our atmosphere—the equivalent of 300 coal-fired power plants—and these facilities are sited in predominantly low-income communities and communities of color.

Ocean