Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Representatives from civil society, non-governmental organizations and the private sector gathered alongside governmental representatives to influence decisions and advance contributions toward the goals of the Paris Agreement of 2015. I was joined by Ocean Conservancy colleagues working to advance ocean-climate action.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 21, 2021

In a remarkable new report, the International Energy Agency (IEA) finds that in order to limit warming to 1.5 Oil and gas boosters both from the political and corporate world will offer solutions that involve a significant role for oil and gas using unproven techno-fixes. 2) Drive a “massive clean energy expansion” over next decade.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 23, 2023

The bottom line: There’s still a long way to go, and the clean energy transition must move quicker than it has been—despite the fossil fuel industry’s self-serving claims to the contrary. Modeling has shown that if the United States is going to live up to its Paris Agreement targets aimed at limiting global warming to 1.5

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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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A Greener Life

MARCH 19, 2023

Just 3% of generated electricity in the 2022 fiscal year came from non-hydropower renewables. Pakistan’s Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) ­– its climate pledge under the Paris Agreement – targets 60% renewable energy generation by 2030, including hydropower. First published in The Third Pole.

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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. The scientists’ letter is addressed to JPMorgan Chase because of its role as the largest financer of fossil fuel companies since the adoption of the Paris agreement.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 22, 2022

In Mexico, challenges to the government’s backsliding on incentives to renewable energy have failed to advance. The amendment significantly reduced the participation of autonomous energy operators in the energy sector, directly affecting the supply of renewable energy. In Greenpeace v.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Lest one thinks this disconnect is a failure of the global climate architecture, the failure lies much closer to home—in the domestic politics in the US and many other countries that continue to favor the interests of the rich and powerful , and fossil fuel companies, at the expense of the health and safety of everyone else and the planet.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Nonetheless, the new rule is a step in the right direction to a greener path towards 80 percent clean energy by 2030. #4: Naturally, these two Acts come into contention, but they both require cooperation by various agencies to achieve both goals. But despite producing enough food to support its 1.3

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Governments are being asked to commit to more ambitious emission reduction commitments for 2030 and beyond by 2025, as part of the regular cycle of updates in line with the latest science called for in the Paris Agreement, as well as to boost climate finance commitments from rich nations.

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Frontiers

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

within reach – so we can meet the goals and ambitions of the Paris Agreement. Private and public sector leaders will discuss the importance of making scientific results openly available in order to boost innovation, increase public consensus, and bolster political will to act. Watch the session here.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Some analysts are predicting that as China’s rate of renewable energy deployment exceeds the rate of energy demand growth it will lead to reduced USE of coal-fired power plants. this is an affirmation from this administration that the goal is to deploy renewable energy in a way that supplants coal, oil and gas.

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Ocean Conservancy

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Therefore, it is crucial to rapidly transition from the production and use of fossil fuels to sustainable renewable energy sources to reach our global climate goals so we can leave a habitable planet for future generations. Offshore wind energy is a crucial piece of the renewable energy mix.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 18, 2021

There are echoes here of the energy and economic crisis of the 1970s, a global shock that has reverberated in global politics and economics for much of the last half century. The parallels are obvious: dramatic and sustained energy price shocks, a global food crisis, rising inflation, and the possibility of economic stagnation.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 19, 2022

Coal power generation must be reduced to 80 per cent below 2010 levels by 2030 and be phased out before 2040 in order to meet targets set out by the Paris Agreement. . The federal government has committed to ban thermal coal exports by 2030.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Many announcements and side initiatives The opening days of COP28 were filled with political announcements from the high-level segment and a myriad of side initiatives, including several from the United States. And that will take political will and pressure from the voting public.

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Energy and Climate Law

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

This blogpost shows what is at stake regarding climate and energy policy, focusing on the election programmes of the different political parties. First, an introduction to the political landscape of the Netherlands will be given. Energy Mix Which sources should be part of the energy mix and which ones should be excluded?

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 31, 2022

To help voters determine which candidates would deliver the needed course correction, Environmental Defence and its allies in the Ontario Priorities Working Group asked each of the province’s major political parties whether – and how – they would deliver the rapid emissions reductions Ontario will need to head off climate catastrophe. .

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Cop stands for conference of the parties under the UNFCCC, and the annual meetings have swung between fractious and soporific, interspersed with moments of high drama and the occasional triumph ( the Paris agreement in 2015 ) and disaster (Copenhagen in 2009). Why do we need a Cop – don’t we already have the Paris agreement?

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Legal Planet

MAY 19, 2021

“Renewable Energy Development in the California Desert” by mypubliclands is licensed under CC BY 2.0. Below the federal level, it’s difficult to discern the impact that the Trump Administration had on energy policy. Utilities enacted renewable programs traditionally led by states. Jetta Cook is a J.D.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 9, 2023

As William Boyd, Mary Nichols, and Julia Stein told me , clean energy manufacturing, renewable energy projects, EV sales and EV charging infrastructure are early success stories. That’s a political question as we approach an election year and that’s where I’m going to start. A few sectors are seeing the most progress.

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Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2021

The City also alleged that the companies engaged in a “greenwashing” campaign by creating misleading impressions of the role of renewable energy in the companies’ businesses and of their efforts to reduce their carbon footprints. In effect, plaintiffs allege, this would allow Brazil to emit 400 million more tonnes by 2030.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 8, 2021

The appellate court agreed with the court below that the lawsuit raised nonjusticiable political questions. Hague District Court Ordered Shell to Reduce Its Emissions 45% by 2030. Reynolds v. State , No. 1D20-2036 (Fla. May 18, 2021). NEW CASES, MOTIONS, AND OTHER FILINGS. Fish & Wildlife Service , No. 1:21-cv-00884 (D.D.C.,

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 2, 2022

A year ago, GFANZ said all its members “must align” their portfolios to the UN’s Race to Zero “stringent criteria” aimed at halving global emissions by 2030 and bringing net carbon emissions to zero by 2050. That clearly includes natural gas—which oil and gas companies continue to tout as a “bridge” fuel from coal to renewable energy.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The court said the plaintiff had not alleged an injury connected to any particular action or law and that her allegations instead suggested disagreements with the defendants’ policy positions, which made her claims nonjusticiable political questions. Republican National Committee , No. 3:17 -cv-00123 (W.D.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 8, 2022

According an April report by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis, US utilities plan to shutter at least 50 percent of their remaining coal generators by 2030. percent is scheduled for retirement or conversion to natural gas after 2030. The thresholds in the Paris Agreement—1.5 Another 18.5

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The majority said it “reluctantly” concluded that “the plaintiffs’ case must be made to the political branches or to the electorate at large” and “[t]hat the other branches may have abdicated their responsibility to remediate the problem does not confer on Article III courts, no matter how well-intentioned, the ability to step into their shoes.”

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