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Net Zero/Not Zero

Real Climate

With empirical data and more and better modeling, it has become clear that, to first approximation, the eventual anthropogenic warming from carbon dioxide is tied to the cumulative emissions. This figure is from the AR6 SPM: The relationship between cumulative carbon emissions and temperature (SPM AR6).

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Innovators in 2023 Carbon Removal Landscape

Ivy Protocol

Author: Ieva Blazauskaite (Ivy Protocol, Marketing Lead) To meet the climate goals outlined by the Paris Agreement, a unified approach, combining both Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) and Engineered Carbon Removal Solutions is crucial.

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Africa loses 34% of GDP at 1.5° warming, ‘grim’ new report concludes

A Greener Life

It calls on “rich, polluting countries,” including historic polluters as well “more recent carbon contributors” like the Middle Eastern Gulf states, India, and China, to “drastically cut their carbon emissions to prevent runaway climate change” and avert “exponentially higher levels of climate impacts affecting more people more quickly.”.

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A look back at significant decisions in climate litigation in 2022

Law Columbia

In July 2022, the High Court of England and Wales in R (Friends of the Earth Ltd and Others) v Secretary of State for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy found that the UK Government’s plans to cut carbon emissions were inadequate and breached national law. Nordrhein-Westfalen (NRW) ). In Smith v.

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Climate leadership is now in Asia

Edouard Stenger

These days the United States’ federal government is promoting coal and backtracking on climate ambition and the European Union is no longer cutting its greenhouse gases emissions. So, who is leading the fight against climate change ? China, India and South Korea are. .

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Using the Free Market to Affect Change: An Argument for Environmental Taxes

Vermont Law

to reducing their carbon emissions. which will implement national standards to govern carbon pollution from power plants. international climate change agreement. the Paris Agreement) that will require periodic, rigorous accounting and management of total national emissions. social cost of carbon.

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Disinformation Alert: Fossil Fuel Interests Preparing to Deploy False Claims about New EPA Rules

Union of Concerned Scientists

These new protections will include updates to power plant standards on carbon emissions , mercury pollution , and toxic coal ash pollution , just to name a few. Modeling has shown that coal power should be phased out entirely by 2030 if the United States is going to live up to its Paris Agreement targets to limit global warming to 1.5