Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

However, only 42 jurisdictions have acknowledged the importance of blue carbon as a climate mitigation and adaptation strategy in the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) submitted under the Paris Agreement. Of the NDCs that discuss blue carbon, the majority acknowledge the potential of blue carbon for adaptation and mitigation.

Carbon Dioxide

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 8, 2025

And after his service in the Trump administration, the Wall Street Journal revealed new evidence that Tillerson had dismissed the Paris Agreements goal of keeping global temperature increase to well below 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels (and striving to limit it to 1.5 degrees Celsius) as something magical.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2025

Sure enough on Thursday, China and the European Union joined forces to pledge to work together to slow down global heating and they called the Paris Agreement “the cornerstone of international climate cooperation,” without mentioning the US.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

MAY 8, 2025

On May 8, the Pittsburgh 2030 District , a project of the Green Building Alliance , released its 2024 Progress Report , revealing the District property partners reached a 52.3% Property partners in the Pittsburgh 2030 District also achieved a 25.6% Pittsburgh 2030 District 2024 Stats at a Glance 52.3% energy reduction 33.3%

Carbon Emissions

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 28, 2025

Shell has released energy outlooks this year projecting global gas demand to rise 60% by 2040 and corresponding plans to increase its gas business 20-30 percent by 2030. Yet Shell still touts its cornerstone climate target of reaching net-zero emissions by 2050 as in line with the Paris Agreement.

Fossil Fuels

A Greener Life

JANUARY 28, 2025

A few months later, in a special Earth Day climate summit, Biden announced several new initiatives, including the pledge to halve US emissions by 2030 and increase its UN-focussed nationally determined contributions (NDS). The fundamental element of Bidens climate legacy is determined once we know how much will stick.

Clean Energy

Legal Planet

JANUARY 16, 2025

Do we abandon the COP process especially given the likely withdrawal from the Paris Agreement by the incoming Trump Administration as some have argued ? As the charismatic climate envoy for Panama, Juan Carlos Monterrey Gomez, remarked , the outcome of COP29 is nothing short of heartbreaking. So where does that leave us?

2025

Law Columbia

MARCH 11, 2025

In this context, South Africa stressed that the preamble of the Paris Agreement acknowledges that human rights should be considered when taking action to address climate change, especially when it comes to the protection of the rights of the most vulnerable persons. degree Celsius threshold.

Climate Change

Legal Planet

JANUARY 15, 2025

The US Nationally Determined Contribution is a 50% reduction from 2005 levels by 2030}. Frankly, I think the most detrimental impacts of the Trump Administration will be on international climate issues, like his promise to withdraw from the Paris Agreement. Those things are still true now.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

JULY 10, 2025

All of this dismantling of climate policy means that the US will add an extra 7 billion tons of emissions to the atmosphere “from now until 2030, compared to meeting its former climate pledge under the Paris Agreement,” according to an analysis by Carbon Brief.

Climate Change

A Greener Life

JUNE 6, 2025

On the day he became president again, Donald Trump signed an executive order to take the US out of the Paris Agreement on climate change. Argentina was the first to say it might not stick with the Paris Agreement. billion in funding pledges from non-US donors, higher than the USD 8.5 billion originally pledged in 2022.

Paris Agreement

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Current national climate pledges fall well-short of the Paris Agreement goal to keep global average temperature increase this century well below 2°C and to pursue efforts to limit temperature increase to 1.5°C In September 2020, Xi Jinping announced goals to peak emissions before 2030 and to achieve carbon neutrality before 2060.

Climate Change

Real Climate

AUGUST 9, 2021

warming limit in the early 2030s. threshold between 2030 and 2052, if current warming trends continue. The headline number from SR1.5 – a likely 2030 to 2052 range – was based on the assumption of a linear continuation of then current warming trends on top of the then-assumed current warming. might be reached.

Paris Agreement

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The pledge is a voluntary agreement to reduce global methane emissions by 30 percent below 2020 levels by 2030; however, methane levels keep going up and we are woefully off track for meeting this goal. Methane gas has devastating effects on the climate system and its extraction and combustion generate numerous harms to human health.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

In 2021, South Korea set a target under the Paris Agreement of a 40% cut from 2018 levels by 2030. South Korea also agreed to join the Global Methane Pledge and cut emissions one third by 2030. The government has also pledged that a third of new cars will be electric or hydrogen by 2030.

Climate Change

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.

Paris Agreement

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 4, 2024

As I show below, their cumulative emissions have continued to rise over the decades even as international efforts to confront climate change have been enacted through the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Agreement. I’ve marked these important years with dotted lines in Figure 2.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The pledge is a voluntary agreement to reduce global methane emissions by 30 percent below 2020 levels by 2030. If policymakers can reduce short-term, high-impact heat-trapping gases such as methane we can limit warming and keep the Paris Agreement goals within reach. The planet has already warmed 1.1

Fossil Fuels

Real Climate

AUGUST 17, 2022

The biggest unknowns are the geopolitical implications. Now that the US federal government is finally acting on climate, what impact does that have on the eagerness of China or India to fulfill their pledges or even increase their ambition?

Paris Agreement

Legal Planet

JUNE 2, 2022

In sharp contrast with their American counterparts, British conservatives remain firmly behind the Paris Agreement and supportive of cap-and-trade. There is an interim target of 75% reduction of 1990 levels by 2030. At least 70% of electricity must come from renewables in 2030. Committed to net-zero by 2030.

2030

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. As always, the poor will be the most vulnerable to climate change. Unfortunately, there are doubts about how much progress Mexico will make in cutting emissions.

Paris Agreement

Energy and Climate Law

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The supreme administrative court declared the three municipalities’ petition admissible, given their proven inescapable exposure to the effects of climate change in the future (a very strong risk already for the 2030 decade), especially to floods and droughts. The government has three months to provide these elements.

Paris Agreement

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

China did not sign onto the global methane pledge to reduce methane emissions 30% by 2030 from 2020 levels, but in the joint declaration announced an intention to “develop a comprehensive and ambitious National Action Plan on methane, aiming to achieve a significant effect on methane emissions control and reductions in the 2020s.”

Paris Agreement

Real Climate

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

This is a very important result, and one that underlies the recent pledges to achieve net-zero by 2030/2040/2050 etc. coming as part of the upgrade to Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) for the COP26 meeting. Net-zero greenhouse gas emission does not have any geophysical significance.

Carbon Dioxide

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2023

Tricky math on heat-trapping emissions The report reiterates ExxonMobil’s 2030 emissions reduction targets, the headliner being a 20-30% reduction in corporate-wide intensity. Heat-trapping emissions must be cut in half by 2030 to reach the Paris agreement goal of keeping global warming to 1.5

Fossil Fuels

Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

However, the Supreme Court found that the Spanish Government had complied with the Paris Agreement and the EU legislation. However, the Supreme Court found that the Spanish Government had complied with the Paris Agreement and the EU legislation. The EU presents the NDC as one Party ( Regulation (EU) 2018/842 ).

Paris Agreement

New Scientist

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Standing a chance of staying under the Paris Agreement's target of 1.5°C C of warming would require annual emissions in 2030 to be 28 billion tonnes lower than what countries' plans and pledges ahead of COP26 deliver

Paris Agreement

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

Sharp r eductions needed in gas generation to meet US climate goals Under the Paris Agreement, the United States has committed to reducing heat-trapping emissions to 50-52 percent below 2005 levels by 2030 and to reaching net zero emissions no later than 2050.

Fossil Fuels

Law and Environment

JANUARY 12, 2022

The Paris Agreement followed at COP21 in 2015 and introduced a goal of holding global temperature increases to below 2°C, as well as pursuing efforts to limit the temperature to 1.5°C. C goal identified in the Paris Agreement with greater and more specific commitments to address climate change.

Paris Agreement

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 7, 2023

The Pittsburgh 2030 District , a project of the Green Building Alliance , has released its 2022 Progress Report , revealing District property partners have reduced carbon emissions by 44.8% This achievement moves the District within range of reaching its target goal of 50-65% reduction in carbon emissions before the 2030 deadline.

Carbon Emissions

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. Energy investments, which accounted for just over 2% of global GDP annually between 2017 and 2021, rise to nearly 4% by 2030.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 16, 2022

This is in total opposition to the US commitment under the Paris Agreement to achieve a 50-52 percent emissions reduction below 2005 levels by 2030, and net-zero by 2050. Coal generation also remains 10 percent of the US mix through 2050 even as EIA is showing substantial coal plant retirements by 2030.

Natural Gas

New Scientist

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Standing a chance of staying under the Paris Agreement's target of 1.5°C C of warming would require annual emissions in 2030 to be 28 billion tonnes lower than what countries' plans and pledges ahead of COP26 deliver

Paris Agreement

A Greener Life

AUGUST 2, 2023

billion of hydropower investments by 2030. Fossil fuels currently account for around 60% of electricity generation , a share that it aims to reduce to 35% by 2030 through the expansion of renewables, including hydropower, and in particular wind and solar. billion of solar energy investments by 2030, which could provide 3.1

Renewable Energy

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 26, 2022

If Antarctica undergoes a large-scale collapse and the warming signal slows as a result, then if that ended up raising the remaining allowable carbon budget, it could be seen as leaving more time to still meet the goals of the Paris agreement. How did we end up with global average temperature as a metric in the Paris agreement?

Sea Level

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 29, 2024

The presentation was timely because the latest framework for the global goal on adaptation (GGA) which was agreed upon at COP28 included specific commitments on protecting cultural heritage to be undertaken by countries in 2030, so the information the IPCC can provide before then will be important.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Losses and damages caused by climate change to intangible cultural heritage such as Indigenous and local knowledge, and traditional agricultural practices have been vastly underestimated in discussions of Paris Agreement implementation. This needs to change. Even this is a drop in the bucket.

Climate Change