Energy and Climate Law

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Until 2030 the EU shall emit 55 % less Greenhouse Gas Emissions (GHG), compared to 1990 levels. This week the European Commission decided in the midst of the Covid-19 crisis to propose an amendment of its GHG-reduction goals for 2030. But given considerable issues with details of the plan, question marks are looming.

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Legal Planet

MAY 5, 2022

Mexico’s climate commitment for 2030 under the Paris Agreement calls for cutting emissions 22%, cutting black carbon by half, and achieving net-zero deforestation. The result could be a sharp increase in Mexico’s energy-related carbon emissions, undermining Mexico’s ability to achieve its Paris targets.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 17, 2022

As you can see there are tax credits and subsidies for electric vehicles, renewable energy, nuclear energy, transmission, hydrogen, air pollution reduction, energy infrastructure, climate resilience, rural development, residential buildings, etc. The biggest unknowns are the geopolitical implications.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Subsection (g) calls for accelerating use of zero emission vehicles (basically, electric cars and trucks), as well as public transportation. This group of nearly all the world’s nations says that it: [R]ecognizes the need for deep, rapid and sustained reductions in greenhouse gas emissions in line with 1.5 °C Transportation.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Many recent scientific reports—including from the IPCC , UNEP and the IEA —show that we are fast running out of time to make the steep cuts in heat-trapping emissions that would keep the Paris Agreement temperature targets within reach. Yet global fossil fuel production and use continue to expand. Particulate matter (PM2.5)

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 16, 2022

They just released their 2022 “Annual Energy Outlook” (AEO), which is a big deal: it tells us where electricity is headed over the next 30 years. Here are five key takeaways from this year’s AEO, focused primarily on the electricity sector: 1. Relying on market trends is nowhere near enough to do the job. Carbon emissions remain high.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The 2022 UN NDC Synthesis report assesses the collective impact of emissions reduction pledges, known as nationally determined contributions (NDCs), that countries have submitted under the Paris Agreement. At the same time, 2021 was also a year when renewable electricity generation reached a record high globally.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 17, 2024

The report provides detailed information on the current state of Cuba’s electricity sector and recommends reforms to advance the transition to a lower emission, reliable, and more climate resilient system. Policymakers have subsequently announced their intention to increase renewable electricity generation to 37% by 2030.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 31, 2022

On August 30, the Erie 2030 District , a group comprising 17 Erie area property partners representing 130 buildings and over 5.9 million square feet, released its 2021 Progress Report detailing efforts by partners who have committed to a dramatic reduction in energy use and carbon emissions in their buildings by the year 2030.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Despite a significant uptake of renewable energy, India still relies on coal plants for more than half of its installed electricity supply. Enhanced coal production Despite the landmark 2015 Paris Agreement, which committed the countries of the world to lower carbon emissions, India has seen no need to reduce coal use.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 22, 2023

degrees Fahrenheit) is no longer feasible, and emphasized that if we move faster, we can keep it as far below 2 degrees C as possible—the fallback target in the Paris Agreement. sometime in the 2030s ” but the big issue is whether the temperature keeps rising from there or stabilizes. “It degrees Celsius (2.7

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 10, 2023

These companies talk out of both sides of their mouths when it comes to climate polic y—many claiming to support the Paris agreement, while simultaneously funding business groups to lobby against policies to implement and enforce national commitments. Fossil fuel production and products harm public health.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 30, 2023

We are still heading in the opposite direction to that required by the Paris Agreement.” And to reduce emissions drastically to meet what was agreed at the Paris Agreement now seems an uphill task. And to reduce emissions drastically to meet what was agreed at the Paris Agreement now seems an uphill task.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 17, 2021

This official inner circle is now doing the business of the three separate international treaties in force for climate change: the 1992 Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC), the 1992 Kyoto Protocol (Yes, it still exists and is in force, although the United States is not a party), and the 2015 Paris Agreement.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2022

People might think about trading in that gas-guzzling SUV for a fuel-efficient hybrid or an electric vehicle. EV’s cost less to operate , and electricity prices are far less volatile than gasoline. A recent UCS analysis examined pathways for meeting carbon reduction requirements in line with the Paris Agreement through 2050.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

That’s because, of the 41 gigawatts (GW) of new generation capacity expected to come online in the country by 2030, 14-16GW is due to come from coal. Nearly half of Indonesia’s electricity is generated by coal power plants, and South Sumatra’s coal plays a crucial role.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 23, 2023

With the clean energy transition already under way, the US electricity mix is set to continue changing this year. Solar power is expected to make up about half of all additions of US electric generating capacity in 2023, according to data from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). I’ll start off with the good.

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Frontiers

JUNE 9, 2022

The share of renewables in total electricity generation is projected to increase, uptake of electric vehicles is accelerated, and energy savings in industry and building sectors lead to additional emission reductions. By Tayyibah Aziz, science writer. Image: Jenson/Shutterstock.com.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 29, 2021

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. It’s an achievable goal because electricity generation is centralized, we only have a countable number of electric power plants.

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 2, 2021

These developments continue despite the need for 78% of the world’s coal usage to be phased out by 2030, in order to have a chance of limiting global warming to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels, the high ambition goal set by the Paris Agreement. “As Gas power should not be an option.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 28, 2023

Also, Canada’s proposed Clean Electricity Regulations must be strengthened to immediately prohibit the construction of new gas-fired power plants. The G7 calls for ensuring that private investments and financial flows are consistent with a healthy climate , as committed to in the Paris Agreement. degree temperature limit.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 30, 2022

According to the IPCC, global emissions must be cut in half by 2030 to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement, and IEA research shows it can be done. The US has pledged to cut its emissions 50 to 52 percent below 2005 levels by 2030—though we have yet to secure the policies to deliver on that goal.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 15, 2021

In neither of these scenarios does Canada actually meet its 2030 emission reduction target under the Paris Agreement or achieve net zero emissions by 2050 – both of which are legal commitments. A net zero analysis for electricity only. Canada’s electricity sector is already 82% free of carbon emissions.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Confirming initial projections when the law was passed, models now predict that IRA will significantly cut emissions by 2030. They showed major effects on reductions, with emission cuts in the 30-40% range by 2030. The result will be a 520-780 megaton reduction in annual emissions by 2030, cutting U.S. decarbonization.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warns that all scenarios to meet the Paris Agreement ’s targets for holding planetary temperatures under 1.5 Many UN documents say emissions should be cut by 45 percent by 2030. trillion into fossil fuel projects since the Paris agreement went into effect in 2016.

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Edouard Stenger

MAY 16, 2017

As if this was not enough, the two Asian giants are also progressing on another part of the energy transition: electric vehicles. Recently India has unveiled working on having only electric cars on the roads by 2030. Meanwhile, in China , 20 percent of new buses are already full electric.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 1, 2022

In its Nationally Determined Contribution , Japan has committed to reducing GHG emissions by 46% in 2030 from 2013 levels and achieving net zero emissions by 2050. Eight additional power plants are currently planned or under construction. Judgments and English summaries are found in the Sabin Center’s Climate Change Litigation Database.).

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 21, 2021

degrees–the goal of the Paris Agreement and a critical threshold for climate change–the world must stop approving fossil fuel projects AND significantly ramp down the production of all fossil fuels: coal, oil, and fossil gas. This is a huge deal. At the same time, energy efficiency measures will need to ramp up.

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Frontiers

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

However, with entirely electric-powered aircraft some way off from becoming commonplace and limited in range, airlines have turned to cleaner jet fuels to help reduce their impact on the planet in the meantime. Estimates suggest that the sector is responsible for about 2.5% SAF is not a silver bullet.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 24, 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 What we need to see in the Energy Futures report? The net-zero scenario in the upcoming Energy Futures report must reference this target.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 27, 2021

C above pre-industrial levels, for example by phasing out coal, stopping deforestation, switching to electric vehicles and investing in renewables. The group also said that any assumptions made when preparing financial statements must be compatible with the Paris agreement.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 13, 2023

Since the adoption of the Paris agreement, JP Morgan Chase is at the top of the list of fossil fuel bankers, financing a staggering $434 billion from 2016 through 2022. In 2022, JPMorgan Chase’s biggest fossil fuel clients (in rank order) were TransCanada Pipelines, Vitol SA and Pacific Gas and Electric.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 19, 2023

Electricity shortage is the biggest impediment to developing Gwadar,” he said. Just 3% of generated electricity in the 2022 fiscal year came from non-hydropower renewables. Just 3% of generated electricity in the 2022 fiscal year came from non-hydropower renewables. Pakistan’s energy sector is dominated by fossil fuels.

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Edouard Stenger

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

As I have spent some sleepless nights since the latest IPCC report on how Mankind has to halve its carbon emissions by 2030. Both the United States and the European Union electricity generations have 25-30% coal (historically much higher, hence its title of King), natural gas 35%, nuclear 20-25% and renewables make up 15% on both markets.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Ministry of Energy and Other s , the Mexican First Circuit Court held that the harm caused by two electricity sector policies that would limit renewable energy investment was not sufficient to suspend the effects of a constitutional amendment. In Greenpeace v. In RWE and Uniper v.

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Edouard Stenger

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Electric vehicles (EVs) are booming but won’t be enough to solve the many problems our cities and communities are plagued with. Increasing our reliance on public transportation – electric buses and trains – and cycling/ walking will. India plans to stop selling ICE cars by 2030. Transportation.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 11, 2022

The plant generates electricity for about three million Polish households, which amounts to around 7% of the country’s output. NGOs are campaigning for the closure of the complex by 2030. Owned by the Polish Energy Group (PGE), the Turów mine supplies lignite to the 1984 MW Turów power plant. Climate aspect of the Turów mine dispute.

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