Law Columbia
JANUARY 5, 2023
Governments are, it seems, beginning to listen to the growing chorus of scientists who have warned that deploying CDR is essential to avoid catastrophic climate change. Government funding for research and deployment of CDR is increasing. Yet, key issues around definitions, guidance, and climate governance remain.
Union of Concerned Scientists
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
Plans countries have submitted under the Paris Agreement would lead to an increase in overall emissions by 2030 and that trend desperately needs to be reversed. Compared to carbon dioxide (CO2), methane doesn’t linger for long in the atmosphere after being emitted. degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
NOVEMBER 15, 2022
Although methane doesn’t linger very long in the atmosphere, increasing methane levels are particularly bad news because it packs a big punch. But its short lifetime in the atmosphere is also a reason for hope. But governments must put policy measures into place immediately to be effective. The planet has already warmed 1.1
Union of Concerned Scientists
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
of the observed rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide and 52 percent of the rise in global average temperatures between 1880 and 2015. It can, and must, start now to meet the 2015 Paris Agreement goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 Data on the major carbon producers’ emissions have been published since 2014.
Circle of Blue
SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
When they converge on Glasgow this fall to rekindle pivotal global climate negotiations that were dampened during the pandemic, diplomats and government ministers will confront a world much changed since their last convention. In the Paris agreement rich countries said they would contribute $100 billion annually.
Legal Planet
DECEMBER 19, 2023
Until recently, few could have anticipated that methane, a GHG not even mentioned in the Paris Agreement, would be central to COP28’s most headline-grabbing announcements. Subnational governments of Brazil, Bolivia, South Korea, Germany, Spain, Canada, Nigeria, and the United States are among the signatories of the coalition.
Law Columbia
APRIL 18, 2024
This indicates that not only democracy but also litigation to compel governments to reduce GHG emissions is fraught with obstacles. Each tonne of CO 2 emitted into the atmosphere anywhere on Earth at any given time thus had, has and will have an almost identical effect on the average global temperature.
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